SKYSCRAPERS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20083, 12 November 1930, Page 15

SKYSCRAPERS.

SYDNEY'S FUTURE.

LOOKING AkEAD. (rf.oK otra OKS coßKsaroßDKaT.j SYDNEY, November 6. It is only a matter of time before Sydney will hare fikvr,craners as high' aa thosfe Of New York; The process of AhieHcttttising* thLs vast city fefesstils, to he gradual but stirfe, aiid if iii dfcner things" why tacit in bilildifigs ? Up to the present there has befell &, lirtiib bti buildings of 160 ft: This alibis for Bdhlething like 11 floors, and in ofrdtsr to overcome the. restrictions builders have excavated beneath the surfac<3, and several buildings, have! four floors belcw the street level. It has loii|j tie§h complained that the building aitas of Bydnek are antiquated, arid this S&sftis tb be justified.. Td those who iiisist that the, B«S risks are tOo &r«*at for biiildihgs thjit go liigHfer.than 150 fe£t it is r«St>ll§d that itt. niodfeFn btiildihgs the fire risk is to an ibsollite tniriittiittt; iii .fiuit .that modern fctfeel aiid concrete structures iii-e absolutely flreprbof. j It is fclear that Sydney has reached | the same building impasse thai New Ydrk fated years ago. And it Will have td be solved in the same wfi#— by building up td the sky, with the sky the limit: Under the new Building Act that is now being drafted it will be possible to build hp to 900 feet, or twice as higli as the famous harboUi* bridge, tile greatest land mark in Australia to-day. Architects argue that therfe is ho reason for any limit in Sydney when the building faces wido streets—and there aire s»ipe wide -feints iii Sydney even th&Ogh lite reverse is the gtsiieral imfirfession. Thehj on the foreshores. What need is there for a iifiiitatiOn there WhSfe ttoeW. is a free outlook &ncl JUTitste Hgiitr Just at present building Operations in Sydney are at k standstill, but that is orilv a pafesirig phase, 60 it is hopdd, due to the depression. Na trade has been harder hit than the building trade, but Svdney will pot stand still for ever, and the hew lags are planhitig for the future. .THSre affe, so man* vafciint offices in the bity. t'Ordky that a block of fekfgcrapei-s Would be a white elephant, but when the situation bectirrifes tiormal again tliefe fire inatly ihtfeistorS Who will be feager to build triant places knowing that thifc is the otilv way to receive n fit return for the valuable blocks which they -will occupy.