Monday, 1 May 2023

NEVER BUILT SYDNEY: Hoyts Cinema Centre Tower (1969)

Trocadero - Sydney buildings July 21 1969 SMH Australia Unlimited 33

Sourced from: Anon. 1969. " Up, Up and away is a theme song". The Sydney Morning Herald Australia Unlimited Supplement 1969, July 21: 33. 

Did you know that early plans for the Hoyts Cinema Centre (now incorporated into Event Cinemas) in George Street had plans for a highrise tower rising above it?

Sydney City Council approved plans in 1969 for a 44-level hotel tower to rise on the site of the Trocadero. In the podium, a five-screen cinema complex would be built as part of the development. 

Trocadero June 8 1969 daily telegraph 9

Source: Anon. 1969. "Five-Cinema Skyscraper for Trocadero Site". The Daily Telegraph, June 8: 9.

The Trocadero was closed in 1971. Next week, I will look at a second proposal for the site. 


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