ADC House (189 Kent Street) is a fifteen-storey office tower and was amongst the first of the modern post war highrise office towers to be built in central Sydney. It was completed in 1957.
An earlier proposal called for the tower to be twenty levels or around 200 feet tall and was a different design. Davey and Brindley were the architects. Below is a newspaper clipping from 1956.
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Source: Anon. 1956. "Harborviews, Mod. Cons.". The Daily Telegraph, January 17:17.
The current building rises to fifteen levels above Kent Street, five floors less than originally envisaged. to ensure compliance with the 150-foot height limit at the time.
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| Above: 189 Kent Street in 2023. Photo taken by the author. |
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