MLC Centre facts for kids
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MLC Centre Sydney
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General information | |
Status | Complete |
Type | Commercial |
Location | 19-29 Martin Place, Sydney |
Coordinates | 33°52′05″S 151°12′34″E / 33.868019°S 151.20932400000004°E |
Construction started | 1972 |
Opening | 1977 |
Owner | Dexus |
Height | |
Roof | 228 m (748 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 67 |
Lifts/elevators | 26 |
Design and construction | |
Architect | Harry Seidler |
Developer | MLC Limited |
Main contractor | Civil & Civic |
The MLC Centre is a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia. Designed by architect Harry Seidler, it stands at a height of 228 metres (748 ft) with 67 storeys, and remains one of his most definitive works. The building was awarded the Sir John Sulman medal by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
Location and features
The building is a stark white, modernist column in an octagonal floorplan, with eight massive load-bearing columns in the corners that taper slightly towards the top. It is one of the world's tallest reinforced concrete buildings and was one of the tallest buildings in the world outside North America at the time of its completion. The MLC Centre was Sydney's tallest office building from 1977 to 1992. The MLC Centre is wholly owned by Dexus, which acquired a half-stake in the property from the Queensland Investment Corporation in June 2017 and bought out its former co-owner, the GPT Group, in March 2019. The MLC Centre was also Australia's tallest building for nine years until losing the title to the Rialto Towers in Melbourne in 1986.
Occupants include the Sydney Consulate of the United States of America. The podium of the building includes a shopping centre and a 1,186-seat theatre, the Theatre Royal.
The building underwent a $100m repair project which installed hybrid corrosion protection to the facade. The project retained the original appearance of the structure but remedied damage to exposed aggregate precast concrete facade panels caused by expansive corrosion of steel reinforcement.
Gallery
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View from Sydney Tower
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Martin Place in the early 1950s. The building on the corner to the left is the Commercial Travellers Club Building and the 'modern' (c1930) twin-wings of the Australia Hotel next to it were demolished in 1971-2 to make way for the MLC Centre.
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Theatre Royal building
See also
In Spanish: MLC Centre para niños