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90/586-8 Architectural model, 'Punch's Hotel', part of King Street Sydney streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975. Click to enlarge.

Architectural model 'Punch's Hotel'

Made
  • 1970-1975
This is one of 23 architectural models representing King Street, Sydney, in the 1880s. This streetscape reveals a lost city of trades, shops and entertainment, in buildings of a human scale. King Street was a magnet at night and by day a retail mecca.

Yet Sydney was also taking on its modern form as a business and professional centre, with architecture to match. This lost city catches Sydney at a cross roads in its history. A bustling variety of people and activities began to make way for a …

Summary

Object No.

90/586-8

Object Statement

Architectural model, 'Punch's Hotel', part of King Street Sydney streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975

Physical Description

Architectural model, 'Punch's Hotel', part of King Street Sydney streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975

This model represents Punch's Hotel on a corner site in King Street, Sydney. It advertises 'Bar Fine Wine, Royal Blend Whisky'. In the upstairs rooms are beds and ferns.

Dimensions

Height

555 mm

Width

520 mm

Depth

775 mm

Production

Made

  • 1970-1975

Cite this Object

Harvard

Architectural model 'Punch's Hotel' 2021, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, accessed 1 June 2023, <https://ma.as/108517>

Wikipedia

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