Westfield Shopping Centre Walking Tour in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 || Andrew Travelling

Westfield Shopping Centre Walking Tour in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 || Andrew Travelling Westfield Bondi Junction is a large, upmarket shopping centre in the suburb of Bondi Junction in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. Westfield Bondi Junction is built on land that was originally by occupied Grace Bros, Carousel Centre and Bondi Junction Plaza. The oldest of these was a Grace Bros store opened in 1934 on the site of the former Hoyts Coronet picture theatre on Oxford Street. In 1957 the Grace Bros building was replaced by a large building designed by Morrow and Gordon, and with parking for 120 cars; the budget was £500,000, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. In the early 1970s the store's striking Modernist exterior was documented by prominent Sydney photographer Max Dupain. Grace Bros dominated shopping in the region until Bondi Junction Plaza was completed in 1976. In the early 1970s, a shopping centre known as The Carousel was opened. This three-level centre featured a Safeway supermarket (later Woolworths), around 50 stores and notably for the time, a food court. The centre was characterised by a large carousel in the middle atrium of the ground floor (which gave the centre its name). With the promise of the Eastern Suburbs railway line, a larger shopping centre was built by AMP and the Uniting Church (who owned part of the site). This shopping centre, called Bondi Junction Plaza opened in 1976 and included a David Jones department store. In 1979, the first of two commercial office towers ("Plaza Tower I") was opened above the site. The second ("Plaza Tower II"), larger tower, opened in 1985. Both these towers are over 80 m in height. The construction of the shopping centre was a watershed, as Australia had no other commercial shopping projects of such scale during the 1970s. Hi... I am Andrew like to travel all over the world. I have been traveling solo from my childhood, spending time with the place and the locals, learning about their culture in a way a regular tourist can not do. I have a passion for all things storytelling. I enjoy telling travel stories through a combination of my writing, photography, and videos. Hope so you enjoy my travelling..... If you have any recommendation pls.. feel free to recommend me bellow the comment box. See you soon anywhere in the world ...... For any information pls.. email me : [email protected]