GIO Building
in Sydney, AustraliaCategory: Attraction
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The GIO Building, also known as the General Insurance Office Building and constructed as the Sun Building, is an heritage-listed office tower built in the Interwar Skyscraper Gothic style, located at 60-70 Elizabeth Street in the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia.
On 2 April 1999 the building was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register with the following statement of significance:
The GIO Building is historically significant because of its associations with Sun Newspapers Ltd newspaper publishing activities in Sydney during the first half of the twentieth century. Its site has associations with the historically prominent figure, Joshua Josephson.
The building is aesthetically significant because it is possibly the first major Interwar Skyscraper Gothic style building in Sydney, of which it is also a rare example, and because it is a major building designed by architect Joseph Kethel.
The building has technical significance, due to its early and extensive use of the proprietary building material, Benedict stone. It is possibly the first major application of this material in a large city building in NSW.
