52-685: The Sofitel Sydney Wentworth (also referred to as the Wentworth Hotel ) is a heritage-listed luxury five-star hotel located at 61-101 Phillip Street in the Sydney central business district , New South Wales , Australia. The Wentworth Hotel on this site opened in December 1966, to a design by associate architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Laurie & Heath in the Post-war International Style , replacing
104-712: A feldspathoid such as nepheline may also be present. This is reflected in the position of the trachyte fields in the QAPF diagram . Biotite , clinopyroxene and olivine are common accessory minerals. The plagioclase is typically sodium-rich oligoclase . The alkali feldspar is typically also sodium-rich sanidine ( anorthoclase ) and is often cryptoperthitic , with alternating microscopic bands of sodium feldspar ( albite ) and potassium feldspar (sanidine). Trachytes are typically fine-grained and light-colored, but can be black if they consist mostly of glass. They are often porphyritic, with large well-shaped crystals of sanidine in
156-523: A groundmass containing much smaller imperfect sanidine laths. Rhomb porphyry is an example with usually large porphyritic rhomb shaped phenocrysts embedded in a very fine-grained matrix . Some of the best known trachytes, such as the trachyte of Drachenfels on the Rhine, show striking porphyritic character, having large sanidine crystals of tabular form an inch or two in length scattered through their fine-grained groundmass. In many trachytes, however,
208-713: A historic house requires consulting the urban planning administration bureau, and the real estate administration bureau. As of 31 June 2011, there are 287 declared historic houses in Hangzhou, proclaimed as 5 batches. In the near future, it is going to issue the sixth batch which includes 51 historic houses. [REDACTED] Colombia : National monuments of Colombia ; (in Spanish) Monumentos Nacionales de Colombia [REDACTED] Comoros : National Committee of Intangible Cultural Heritage (Comoros) [REDACTED] Republic of
260-544: A loss of $ 167,950 for Qantas Wentworth Holdings. A profit of $ 123,130 was reported the following year (1967–1968). Not long after its opening, the Australian Women's Weekly reported: Sydney is sure to take the Wentworth Hotel to its gay, pleasure loving heart, for within its red brick walls may be found the essentials high life - luxury, glamor, and built-in discretion. [...] The hotel was designed by
312-533: A major refurbishment of the hotel to maintain its five-star status. In 2004, the management of the hotel was acquired by Accor Group from Rydges, with the hotel to be renamed under the Sofitel brand as the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth. In 2006, Tourism Assets Holdings Limited bought the hotel title for a price reported to be around $ 150 million. In May 2010, LaSalle Investment Management bought
364-596: A mosaic or like the tiles on a roof. They often cover the surfaces of the larger feldspars or line the vesicles of the rock, where they may be mingled with amorphous opal or fibrous chalcedony . In the older trachytes, secondary quartz from the recrystallization of tridymite is not rare. Of the mafic minerals present, augite is the most common. It is usually of pale green color, and its small crystals are often very perfect in form. Brown hornblende and biotite occur also, and are usually surrounded by black corrosion borders composed of magnetite and pyroxene ; sometimes
416-527: A new holding company, Qantas Wentworth Holdings, to manage the hotel for the airline. In September 1951, Qantas opened a new booking terminal in the hotel. With the development and completion of the Chevron Hilton Hotel on Macleay Street, Potts Point , in 1959–1960, Qantas also sought at the same time for a contemporary style hotel that would meet the needs of travellers. Associated with the development for Qantas House on Phillip Street, which
468-654: A preliminary submission of the project submitted to the Commonwealth Government in 1958, in October 1962, the managing director of Qantas, Sir Hudson Fysh , announced that Qantas would build a substantial new 452-room hotel immediately adjacent to Qantas House at a cost of £4 million primarily on the site of the old Union Club. The hotel proposal was approved by the Federal Cabinet in August 1961. On
520-610: A team of American and Australian architects and decorators. They have produced hotel of unobtrusively splendid luxury with a many-faceted personality. The main entrance in Phillip St is the luxury, social part; the Bligh Street entrance, in the middle of Sydney's big business stronghold, is busy, sophisticated, vital. The Qantas Airways terminal is here, surrounded by bars and restaurants. The Wentworth, still less than two months old, already seems to have become an important part of
572-431: Is of historic importance for its association with QANTAS and QANTAS House. The hotel is important as the only Australian work by Skidmore Owings and Merrill, and as the oldest major Sydney Hotel. The Wentworth Hotel is aesthetically significant for the huge copper canopy over the entrance, which at the time of construction, was one of the largest completely fabricated awnings in the world. The distinctive horse shoe design of
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#1732790463598624-625: Is one known voluminous flow from Puʻu Waʻawaʻa on the north flank of Hualālai in Hawaiʻi. Here the trachyte is glassy and black in color. In Iceland, the Azores , Tenerife and Ascension there are recent trachytic lavas, and rocks of this kind occur also in New South Wales ( Cambewarra Range ), Queensland ( Main Range ), East Africa, Madagascar , Yemen and in many other districts. Among
676-626: Is usually light-colored and aphanitic (fine-grained), with minor amounts of mafic minerals, and is formed by the rapid cooling of lava (or shallow intrusions) enriched with silica and alkali metals . It is the volcanic equivalent of syenite . Trachyte is common wherever alkali magma is erupted, including in late stages of ocean island volcanism and in continental rift valleys , above mantle plumes , and in areas of back-arc extension. Trachyte has also been found in Gale crater on Mars. Trachyte has been used as decorative building stone and
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780-834: The Eifel , also in Auvergne, Bohemia and the Euganean Hills . In the neighborhood of Rome, Naples and the island of Ischia trachytic lavas and tuffs are of common occurrence. Trachytes are also found on the island of Pantelleria . In the United States, trachytes crop out extensively in the Davis Mountains , Chisos Mountains , and Big Bend Ranch State Park in the Big Bend (Texas) region, as well as southern Nevada and South Dakota ( Black Hills ). There
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884-754: The Miss Grand Australia beauty pageant. The hotel is also known for being the regular host of state and federal election night events for the Liberal Party of Australia , including every election from 1993 to the 2022 federal elections. [REDACTED] Media related to Sofitel Sydney Wentworth at Wikimedia Commons Heritage register This list is of heritage registers , inventories of cultural properties , natural and human-made, tangible and intangible , movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many instances
936-822: The Rhine valley, but their augite and biotite are often replaced by chlorite and other secondary products. Permian trachytes occur also in Thuringia and the Saar district in Germany. Alkaline rocks such as trachyte are rare in the Archean , but become common in the Proterozoic . Alkaline rocks with an age close to 570 million years are common around the perimeters of many continental shields and are evidence of worldwide rifting at that time. Closely allied to trachyte
988-548: The Wentworth Hotel was first opened as a boarding house on Lang Street further to the west in inner Sydney. Owned and run by the Maclurcan family, the Wentworth Hotel eventually grew to become one of the city's premier hotels, alongside The Australia Hotel (opened 1891) on Castlereagh Street, and the Hotel Metropole (opened 1880) on Bent, Phillip and Young Streets. With the growth of tourism and visitors to Sydney in
1040-604: The alkaline magma series , in which alkaline basaltic magma experiences fractional crystallization while still underground. This process removes calcium, magnesium, and iron from the magma to give it a composition close to that of alkali feldspar. As a result, trachyte is common wherever alkali magma is erupted, including late eruptions of ocean islands and in continental rift valleys and mantle plumes . Only rarely does magmatic differentiation proceed beyond trachyte to phonolite or even more evolved alkaline magmas. Trachyte also occurs in areas of back-arc extension, such as
1092-412: The feldspathoid group, such as nepheline , sodalite and leucite , are present in trachytes, and rocks of this kind are known as foid-bearing trachytes. The sodium-bearing amphiboles and pyroxenes so characteristic of the phonolites may also be found in some trachytes; thus aegirine or aegirine augite forms outgrowths on diopside crystals, and riebeckite may be present in spongy growths among
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#17327904635981144-704: The Congo : National Inventory of the Cultural Heritage of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [REDACTED] Denmark : National Register of Sites and Monuments, as maintained by the Danish Agency for Culture [REDACTED] Djibouti : List of monuments of Djibouti Trachyte Trachyte ( / ˈ t r eɪ k aɪ t , ˈ t r æ k -/ ) is an extrusive igneous rock composed mostly of alkali feldspar . It
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1300-755: The Garden Court Restaurant and public spaces. On 4 April 2000, the hotel and its interiors was listed as a local heritage item by the City of Sydney under the Central Sydney Heritage Local Environmental Plan 2000 (since replaced by the Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012 ), with its statement of significance noting: "The Wentworth Hotel facing Chifley Square is a twenty storey tower of Post War Minimalist Style. It
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1456-629: The Sydney scene. In March 1982, Qantas sold the Wentworth Hotel for $ 70 million to National Mutual , with the hotel management to be undertaken by Sheraton Pacific Hotels and the hotel being renamed the Sheraton Wentworth Hotel. In August 1995, hotel chain Rydges took over management of the hotel from Sheraton, with the hotel renamed The Wentworth – A Rydges Hotel, and at the same time National Mutual undertook various refurbishments to
1508-478: The Wentworth Hotel is significant as a familiar architectural landmark in Sydney. It was Australia's biggest international hotel at time of construction. It derives social significance from its long-standing status as Sydney's hotel for the rich and famous, for the continuity of the name Wentworth Hotel, and as the venue for the annual Black & White Ball, the major fundraising event of the Black & White Committee,
1560-677: The Wentworth during their Apollo 11 Moon landing world tour. In December 1970, Pope Paul VI was a guest of the hotel on the occasion of the first papal visit to Australia. The hotel hosted Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh for Royal visit state receptions in 1973, 1980, and 1986. On 28 March 1983, the hotel ballroom famously hosted the Benevolent Society ball attended by Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales during their Royal tour of Australia , whose dance to " The More I See You " captured
1612-529: The attention of the press. In September 2007, the hotel hosted the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin , and the President of China, Hu Jintao , during their visit to Sydney for APEC Australia 2007 . Other visitors have included Bill Gates , Audrey Hepburn , Marlon Brando , Sophia Loren , Margaret Thatcher , and George H. W. Bush . In 2018, 2019, and 2022, the hotel hosted
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1664-519: The feldspars of the groundmass (as in the trachyte of Berkum on the Rhine ). Glassy forms of trachyte ( obsidian ) occur, as in Iceland , and pumiceous varieties are known (in Tenerife and elsewhere), but these rocks as contrasted with the rhyolites have a remarkably strong tendency to crystallize, and are rarely to any considerable extent vitreous. Trachyte is the usual silica-rich end member of
1716-520: The hotel was promoted as "Australia's first self-contained Convention and Entertainment Centre", and had 448 rooms and 38 suites, featured 12 bars and restaurants (including a "Harbour Bar", "Coral Reef Bar", "Ayers Rock Grill", "Flight Bar", and "Old Sydney Bar and Tavern"), as well as the Grand Ballroom seating up to 1,200 persons. The opening room rates were $ 9.50 (single) and $ 13.50 (double) per night. The first year of hotel operation resulted in
1768-578: The hotel, with one of the most prominent commissioned artworks being the Australian wildflower tempera mural by Dennis Adams placed in the foyer of the convention hall. Other artworks and decorative elements included heraldic tapestries of Australian cities by Margaret Grafton, and a sunflower-lighting unit by Edison Price of New York. In an indication of Qantas' intentions regarding the historic Wentworth Hotel, in September 1965, Qantas announced that
1820-439: The most patrician of Sydney's charity groups. The building is scientifically significant for the largest air conditioning system, column free ballroom, and as the largest brick structure in the southern hemisphere. The building contains a rare example of a vertical passenger lift spanning four floors." In 2001, private property investment firm City Freeholds Pty Ltd bought the hotel from National Mutual for $ 108 million and undertook
1872-435: The new hotel would be named "Wentworth" to "carry on the honourable name and tradition of the most successful and historic Wentworth Hotel." The final night of the old Wentworth Hotel was held on 13 December 1966, with free drinks provided. The 100 guests staying at the hotel were required to leave by 10:00am on 14 December 1966, with half of the guests transferring to the new Wentworth Hotel on Phillip Street . On its opening,
1924-631: The northern Aegean Sea and the Aeolian arc of Italy. The Aeolian back-arc includes the Campi Flegrei volcanic field, where trachytes have been erupted. Trachytes are well represented among the Cenozoic volcanic rocks of Europe. In Britain they occur in Skye as lava flows and as dikes or intrusions, but they are much more common on the continent of Europe, as in the Rhine district and
1976-577: The older volcanic rocks trachytes also are not scarce, though they have often been described under the names orthophyre and orthoclase-porphyry, while trachyte was reserved for Tertiary and recent rocks of similar composition. In England there are Permian trachytes in the Exeter district, and Carboniferous trachytes are found in many parts of the central valley of Scotland. The latter differ in no essential respect from their modern representatives in Italy and
2028-430: The original Wentworth Hotel on Lang Street, which had operated since 1855 as one of Sydney's most prominent hotels. Originally owned and operated by Qantas , the hotel was operated by Sheraton from 1982, Rydges from 1995, and has been operated by Sofitel since 2004. The hotel stands at a height of 58.8–63.4 m (193–208 ft), with 20 floors and 436 hotel rooms. The history of the hotel dates back to 1855, when
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2132-412: The phenocrysts are few and small, and the groundmass comparatively coarse. The ferromagnesian minerals rarely occur in large crystals, and are usually not conspicuous in hand-sized specimens of these rocks. Two types of groundmass are generally recognized: the trachytic, composed mainly of long, narrow, subparallel rods of sanidine, and the orthophyric, consisting of small squarish or rectangular prisms of
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2184-519: The podium walls faced in Trachyte ; and the tower walls were faced in dark bricks to contrast from the glass and steel curtain walling of Qantas House next door and to give "distinction and substance". The interiors were the work of interior design for SOM, Audrey Borkenhagen . The Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales , Hal Missingham , was engaged to advise on the choice of artworks for
2236-450: The post-war period, there was an identified shortage of hotel space in the city, and Qantas Empire Airways sought to acquire a hotel with which they could integrate their operations, similar to the relationship between Pan Am and Intercontinental Hotels . In September 1950, Qantas purchased the Wentworth Hotel from the Maclurcan family for £275,000, by purchasing the shares of the holding company, Wentworth Hotel Limited. Qantas then formed
2288-413: The project began on 1 July 1963 by A. Bradshaw (Excavations) Pty Ltd, and construction commenced from April 1964 by T. C. Whittle Pty Ltd (Construction), with the design echoing the desire of Qantas to have the character of the hotel be "distinctly Australian in character, using Australian timber, marbles, and stone". The main hotel entrance on Phillip Street featured a 39 metre wide curved copper awning, and
2340-619: The recommendation of Qantas board director, Robert Law-Smith , the prominent American architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill , was commissioned to design the hotel, in association with a local architectural firm, Laurie & Heath . The unique design was noted for its semi-circular tower design placed upon a podium, somewhat echoing Arne Jacobsen 's design for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark, for Scandinavian Airlines (1960). Demolition and excavation for
2392-738: The replacement is complete and no hornblende or biotite is left, though the outlines of the cluster of magnetite and augite may clearly indicate from which of these minerals it was derived. Olivine is unusual, though found in some trachytes, for example those of the Arso in Ischia . Basic varieties of plagioclase, such as labradorite , are known also as phenocrysts in some Italian trachytes. Dark brown varieties of augite and rhombic pyroxene ( hypersthene or bronzite ) have been observed but are not common. Apatite , zircon and magnetite are practically always present as accessory minerals. Occasionally minerals of
2444-555: The rock type. Trachydacite occupies the same field in the TAS diagram as trachyte, but is distinguished from trachyte by a normative quartz content over 20%. Trachydacite is not a recognized rock type in the QAPF classification, where rocks rich in alkali feldspar and with quartz over 20% would be classified as rhyolites. The mineral assemblage of trachytes consists of essential alkali feldspar. Relatively minor plagioclase and quartz or
2496-420: The same mineral. Sometimes granular augite or spongy riebeckite occurs in the groundmass, but as a rule this part of the rock is highly feldspathic. Trachytes very often have minute irregular vesicles which make the broken surfaces of specimens of these rocks rough and irregular, and it is from this distinctive texture that they received their name. It was first given to rocks of this class from Auvergne , and
2548-470: The title to the hotel for $ 130 million from Tourism Assets Holdings. In May 2014, LaSalle sold the hotel again to the Singapore -based Frasers Property for over $ 200 million. In October 2021, Frasers sold the hotel for $ 315 million to private equity firm KKR . The hotel has been host to many notable visitors over the years. In October 1969, Neil Armstrong , Buzz Aldrin , and Michael Collins stayed at
2600-409: Was completed in 1957 to a design by Rudder, Littlemore & Rudder, Qantas started buying up land in the block bounded by Phillip, Bligh and Bent Streets. In 1955, Qantas had purchased the historic Union Club site on Bligh Street for £500,000, with an arrangement for the club to stay in place for three years while a new clubhouse was built immediately to the north on the corner with Bent Street. With
2652-588: Was extensively used as dimension stone in the Roman Empire and the Republic of Venice . Trachyte has a silica content of 60 to 65% and an alkali oxide content of over 7%. This gives it less SiO 2 than rhyolite and more (Na 2 O plus K 2 O) than dacite . These chemical differences are consistent with the position of trachyte in the TAS classification , and they account for the feldspar-rich mineralogy of
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#17327904635982704-513: Was long used in a much wider sense than that defined above, so that it included quartz-trachytes (now known as liparites and rhyolites ) and oligoclase -trachytes, which are now classified as andesites . Quartz is rare in trachyte, but tridymite (which likewise consists of silica ) is not uncommon. It is rarely in crystals large enough to be visible without the aid of the microscope , but in thin sections it may appear as small hexagonal plates, which overlap and form dense aggregates , like
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