World Square

World Square is a city square and urban development in the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia. It fills an entire Sydney city block, bounded by George, Liverpool, Pitt and Goulburn Streets, on what was a small hill called Brickfield Hill.

World Square
City square
World Square Tower from Liverpool Street in 2009 with the now demolished Sydney Monorail in the foreground
Constructionc. 1990 – c. 2007
Amenities
  • Residential apartments
  • Commercial offices
  • Retail
  • Restaurants
  • Hotel and serviced apartments
  • Parking
  • Childcare facilities
  • Open civic square
Architectural styleModernist
OwnerIpoh Gardens Group
LocationBounded by George, Liverpool, Pitt and Goulburn Streets, Brickfield Hill, Sydney CBD, Australia
World Square
Location in the Sydney central business district
Coordinates: 33°52′39″S 151°12′24″E
Websiteworldsquare.com.au

World Square features a shopping centre, hotels, office buildings and residential apartment towers. Liverpool Lane, off Liverpool Street, is part of World Square and features restaurants, cafes and take away shops. It is also the home of Southern Cross Austereo's Sydney radio stations Triple M and 2Day FM.

Buildings
  • Rydges World Square Hotel (formerly the Avillion Hotel Sydney), corner of Pitt Street and Liverpool Street. 10 floors of hotel, restaurants and commercial space. Construction ended in 1999.
  • Hordern Towers, on Pitt Street. 48 floors of residential apartments and commercial space Construction ended in 1999.
  • World Tower, on Liverpool Street. 73 floors of residential apartments and commercial suites. Sydney’s tallest skyscraper. Construction ended in 2004.
  • Latitude, 680 George Street and 50 Goulburn Street. 51 floors of commercial space. Construction ended in 2004.
  • Latitude East, corner of Pitt Street and Goulburn Street. 12 floors of commercial space. Construction ended in 2007.
  • The World Square Shopping Centre is located on the Lower Ground floor and Ground floor of this development containing various retailers.[1]

History
Aerial view of Anthony Hordern & Sons' Palace Emporium

The site on which World Square now stands was originally home to the Anthony Hordern & Sons department store, a six-storey building which opened in 1905. After the demolition of Hordern & Sons in 1986, the site remained undeveloped for most of the 1990s due to planning disputes.[2] During the dispute, scenes for the 1995 film Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie were shot on the former property of Hordern & Sons and future site of World Square.[3] Between 1988 and 2013, the now defunct Sydney Monorail stopped at the development's 'built-in' station.

References
  1. "World Square Shopping Centre". Archived from the original on 26 January 2007. Retrieved 5 February 2007.
  2. Dick, Tim (7 January 2005). "Fixing the hole". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 3 December 2007. Retrieved 10 December 2007.
  3. Matthews, Paul (November 1995). "What REALLY Happened - the first MMPR Movie". Archived from the original on 29 January 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2010.
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