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City Ford - Former Hastings Deering Motors
Riley, Kennedy, crown & Suttor Streets, Woolloomooloo
1938 Samuel Lipson & Peter Kaad

An inner-city showroom for Ford cars, with workshops since demolished to make way for the Crown Gardens residential development. Streamlined Modern, after Eric Mendelssohn, with double-spiral car ramp and five-storey open cantilever stair above car entry. The horizontal spandrels were fitted with fine steel framed windows: the vertical panels covering the columns are not original. The waffle slab and mushroom column construction is largely intact, as are parts of the original interior fitout.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 

 

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