About GIO Building

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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.

Source From: Wikipedia
60, Darling Quarter, Elizabeth Street, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2000

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