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Sydney CBD: The hotel was located on Castlereagh Street, Sydney until its closure on 30 June 1971. It was the premier hotel in Sydney, describing itself as "The Hotel of the Commonwealth". Its foundation stone was laid by Sir Henry Parkes in 1889. The hotel had a large entrance onto the street in polished granite, the stairs grey, the doric ...
Kings Hotel is a heritage-listed former pub and now commercial premises located at 138–140 Pitt Street, in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1879.
The Metropolitan Hotel is a four-storey face brick and sandstone building located on a prominent corner of George Street near Wynyard railway station.The building is designed in the Federation Free Style and features a façade divided into bays by projecting panels topped with sandstone detailed brick parapet decorated with round pediments with plaques, and an octagonal corner cupola with a ...
In the mid-1880s, it was reported that there was a lack of high quality hotel accommodation within the city of Sydney. In an August 1886 article reporting on the development of the Federal Coffee Palace hotel in Melbourne, the Sydney Mail commented that "In the matter of hotel accommodation, Sydney compares very unfavourably with Melbourne."
The Ribbon in February 2022. The building has 588 rooms and suites and includes a rooftop heated infinity pool and wet deck with a two-storey bar, several other bars, a spa, a BTWN restaurant, meeting rooms and a 325-seat cinema with the third-largest operating movie theatre screen in the world with a slightly curved IMAX screen that is 692 square metres (7,450 sq ft) or 29 m × 24 m (95 ft × ...
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the main crossing of Sydney Harbour carrying rail, vehicular, and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district (CBD) and the North Shore. The dramatic water vista of the bridge together with the nearby Sydney Opera House is an iconic image of both Sydney and Australia.
World Square is a large shopping centre and urban development in the Sydney Central Business District. [1] It fills an entire Sydney city block, bounded by George, Liverpool, Pitt and Goulburn Streets, on what was a small hill called Brickfield Hill. World Square features a shopping centre, hotels, office buildings and residential apartment towers.
The current Glenmore Hotel is the second hotel in Cumberland Street to bear that name. The first Glenmore Hotel was located to the north of the current hotel on the western side of the street and had been condemned principally because of the imminent construction of the southern approaches to the Harbour Bridge.