29 Oct InterContinental Perth City Centre: The Bubble Windows That Outlived Three Identities

Walk Past WA No. 1 · Bubble-window facade, corner of King & Hay Streets, Perth

Look closely at the windows. Those bubble-shaped panes are the one detail that survived three complete identities.

From office block to hotel, twice

Built as an office block in the 1970s, it became a Rydges hotel in 1997. After a major refurbishment stripped it back to its structure, it reopened in 2017 as the InterContinental Perth City Centre, with a penthouse level by Woods Bagot.

Which Perth building do you walk past every day and never notice?

Walk Past WA is a weekly series on the Western Australian buildings most of us walk past without noticing. One building each week, photographed by architect and photographer Boris Poznovia. This is No. 1.

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