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25 Martin Place (formerly and still commonly known as the MLC Centre) is a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia.Originally named the "MLC Centre" after MLC Limited, and still commonly referred to by that name, in 2021 the name was removed by its owner, Dexus, which now refers to the building simply by its street address of 25 Martin Place.
25 Martin Place (formerly MLC Centre) Sits mainly upon the site of the Australia Hotel, demolished to make way for this 228-metre, reinforced concrete skyscraper, designed by Harry Seidler. The building is a modernist, octagonal column.
The MLC Building is a heritage-listed office building located at 42–46 Martin Place in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Bates Smart & McCutcheon and built from 1936 to 1938 by Concrete Constructions Limited.
The MLC Building is a landmark modernist skyscraper in the central business district of North Sydney, on a block bounded by Miller Street, Denison Street and Mount Street (Brett Whiteley Place). Planned in 1954 and completed in 1957, the complex was designed in the modernist Post-war International style by architects, Bates, Smart & McCutcheon .
The MLC Building, built in 1936-8 for MLC as its headquarters on the corner of Martin Place and Castlereagh Street, remains a landmark in the Sydney City Centre. Across from this building, on the south side of Martin Place, is the MLC Centre, one of Harry Seidler's best known works and Sydney's tallest office building until 1992.
25 Martin Place (1977), on Martin Place by Harry Seidler named the MLC Centre until 2021 MLC Tower (1998), in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, by Andrew Lee King Fun & Associates Mutual Life & Citizens Assurance Company Building (1940), in Wellington, New Zealand, by Mitchell and Mitchell
Martin Place Railway Station is significant as the only underground railway station constructed in the centre of the city within the last fifty years. It is a good example of a Late Twentieth-Century International style structure which is highly intact with many of its original materials and finishes still in place.
In 1985, when the State Bank Centre was nearing completion, the new Minister for Planning and Environment, Bob Carr, took action under the Heritage Act 1977 to preserve the "Martin Place Precinct", including placing conservation orders on the APA Building, MLC Building, Challis House, the GIO Building, and the Bank of NSW Building. [34]