SYDNEY’S BUILD

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1930, Page 7

SYDNEY’S BUILD

COMING INFLUENCE OF 'Sydney, They are bound to coJMMMMMMMi a matter of time have skyscrapers as New York. The ing this vast city but sure, and if in not in buildings? there has been a lim 150 ft. This allows and in order to tions builders have the surface, and. several four floors below the street It has long been building laws of Sydney are -‘.iY'Jii ed, and this seems to be those who insist that the fire ri~ too great for buildings that go higßWi than 150 ft., it is replied that in modern buildings the fire risk is reduced t.o an absolute minimum; in fact, that-mod- < ern steel and concrete structures are absolutely fire-proof. It is clear that Sydney has reached the same building impasse that New York faced years ago. And it will have to be solved in the same way—by build* ing up toward the sky. Under the new ‘ i Building Act that is now being drafted it will be possible to build up to 900 or twice as high as the famous harbour bridge, the greatest landmark in Australia to-day. Architects argue that that there is no reason for any limit in Sydney when the building faces wide streets—and there are some wide streets in Sydney, even though the reverse is the general impression. x Just at present building operations in Sydney are at a standstill, but that is only a passing phase, so it is hoped, due . to the depression. No trade has been jl harder hit than the building trade, Sydney will not stand still for ajer,. the new laws are planning for the fut-W ure. There are so many vacant officeß I in the city to-day that a block of sky- J scrapers would be a white but when the situation becomes normal 1 again there are many investors who wißriß be eager to build giant places, that this is the only way fit return for the valuable they will occupy,