Adelaide’s historic GPO has been reimagined with a 14-storey cube-like tower behind the 150-year-old building.
Adelaide’s 150-year-old grand GPO building, once a busy communications hub connecting the city with the world via the Overland Telegraph line, is open again as the five-star Marriott Hotel, a first for the group in South Australia.
On the corner of King William and Franklin streets and set back from the GPO’s original facade and Victoria Tower , the new 14-storey cube-like hotel behind the building has 285 soundproof rooms including 11 suites overlooking leafy Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga or the city skyline.
The Overland Telegraph line between Adelaide and Darwin was completed in 1872 and linking it with the Java-to-Darwin submarine telegraph cable made it “the greatest engineering feat carried out in 19th century Australia,” according to the National Museum of Australia.It reduced Australia’s communication time with Europe from months to hours and marked the beginning of the end of the country’s isolation from the rest of the world.
Stories of the GPO are celebrated by a collection of multimedia artworks in guestrooms and in the lounge lobby, a wall sculpture by Karl Meyer and Warren Pickering – – is inspired by the curves of the pneumatic tubes that once carried urgent messages under the city’s streets.Executive chef Alexandre Katsman heads up the 126-seater Penny Blue restaurant featuring local favourites Coffin Bay oysters, Spencer Gulf prawns and Gawler River quail.
A bonus for scorching summer days which the city is known for, is the undercover and invisible from the street 18-metre swimming pool.Sign up for the Traveller newsletter
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