😮 repost 2015 :
A c1972 proposed government office building just after they had purchased #tasmaterrace, and intended to demolish it. The Catholic Ladies College and Unitarian Church behind Tasma had just been demolished, and so had St Patrick’s College behind the Cathedral – which it totally would have dominated. Earlier aerial from about 1920.
Looks like it’s about 50 storeys ! It was probably horror at this idea plus a rapid acceptance just then that historic preservation would be a good thing that led to a complete turn around – and the State Govt instead gave the National Trust use of Tasma as its HQ, and the Fed Govt make a grant for restoration in 1974. In the 1990s the site was finally built on for the Park Hyatt.
I don’t remember where I got the tower block image from, perhaps @nationaltrustvic files ?
