MLC Centre
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The MLC Centre is a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia. This office building is 228 metres (748 feet) high [1] and has 67 storeys.[2] Occupants include the Sydney Consulate of the United States of America. The podium of the building includes a shopping centre with several exclusive fashion labels and a 1,186 seat theatre, the Theatre Royal. [3]
The building was designed by Sydney architect Harry Seidler, and it remains one of his most definitive works. The building's construction was controversial, since it brought about the demolition in 1972 of the opulent 19th century Australia Hotel and the Theatre Royal, which formerly stood on the site, as well as much of the historic Rowe Street precinct.
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 the tallest building 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[citation needed].
The building was awarded the Sir John Sulman medal by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
The MLC Centre is currently jointly owned by the GPT Group and Queensland Investment Corporation.
