lumenlike

Descendant of the villa savoy by corbusier

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Architecture, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

A Queenslander, with charm extracted.

Does anyone know if Grace building was just built as a shop or was it offices or a hotel too? It is such a great building.

Short history - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Bros.#The_Grace_Building . Longer history - 74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:0fXVRkIOZ70J:www.teachinghe...

thankyou so much beachcomberaustralia!

More - www.teachingheritage.nsw.edu.au/b_expressing/wb2_lumby.html , including this - " It was intended that the building serve as "the showpiece of the company. It was never planned as a department store. Instead it was an imaginative concept for the 'trading post'. York Street was the traditional heart of the softgoods trade where buyers scampered through to the great warehouse that dominated the street. The Grace Building was to offer facilities for buyers and sellers to meet and discuss samples." Indeed, it was generally thought that on the completion of the Harbour Bridge and the city railway that York Street would become one of the principal retail thoroughfares of the city, rivalling the supremacy of George and Pitt streets and pushing out the wholesalers in the area. The ground and first floors of the Grace Building were, however, fitted out as retail areas where home furnishings were sold. Expansive glazed shop windows invited the gaze of passersby and doors on each street invited them to enter. "

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sydney in B&W and Monochromatic tones, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

wonderful. sam hood was a master.

stylo............

creepy but interesting ! poetic atmosphere

so wonderful...

when I think that at this time the equipment was simpler and the "freezing" of the movement it was perfect, I believe that I still so far to reach the top of my art!

nice !!