Sydney Building.

Progress, Volume XI, Issue 12, 1 August 1916, Page 695

Sydney Building.

In Sydney the building trade is very dull. The high price of material, the unsettled labour market, and the general feeling of unrest is militating against speculative building or the erection of large city premises. As the tendency of prices is to harden all round, many big jobs will be postponed indefinitely. Nevertheless, the applications for permission to make alterations and erect new premises are well up to the average, while many city architects have a good deal of work in hand in the shape of suburban residences and alterations to city premises. The other large centres have a similar story to tell. Few big building contracts are being let, and as it is such structures and not residential houses that absorb cement, the stores are full of that article;