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Speaker 1: New Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm so happy to see that the Serious

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Speaker 2: Building is ready to take on its new residents.

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Speaker 3: For those who don't know, explain what the serious building is.

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Speaker 1: It's the brutalist that's what they call. It's a brutalist style.

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Speaker 3: It's little squares, it's like celebrity squares.

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Speaker 2: You're coming over the Harbor Bridge right now and you're

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Speaker 2: driving towards North Sydney. You can see the Serious Building

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Speaker 2: you are made. They're in the red Coroala. See look now, yep,

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Speaker 2: that's the Serious Building.

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Speaker 3: And what's the history of the Serious Building.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy eight, all that area of the Rocks there

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Speaker 2: was all housing commissioned social housings they like to call

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Speaker 2: it these days. And there's a lot of protests because

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Speaker 2: they've got a rid of a lot of the people

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Speaker 2: that lived in that particular area of the Rocks.

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Speaker 3: Well, they had to fight hard to save the Rocks.

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Speaker 3: The Rocks was going to be demolished. Jack Munday and

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Speaker 3: the y b LFT, they all, you know, we tar

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Speaker 3: them with the brush of being aggressives, but they saved

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Speaker 3: the Rocks.

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Speaker 1: And this has happened in history when they built the

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Speaker 1: Harbor bridge. They just came of on.

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Speaker 2: See house is going we're putting a bridge through here.

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Speaker 2: And so the building, the Serious Building, was going to

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Speaker 2: be demolished. It got sold in twenty nineteen. It was

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Speaker 2: going to be demolished. They're going to pull the whole

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Speaker 2: thing down and put I don't know, some other structure up.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's in it because it prime real estate, position.

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Speaker 2: Crime real estate, but very impractical as far as the

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Speaker 2: size of the apartments go, the parking and all that

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Speaker 2: sort of stuff. Because when it was completed in nineteen eighty,

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Speaker 2: it's you know, it's I know that sounds like recent times. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's pretty old these days, but it's part of our

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Speaker 2: city landscape. And at the time they had a rally,

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Speaker 2: and I never go to rallies or anything like that,

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Speaker 2: but I thought, I really want the Serious.

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Speaker 1: Building to stay. So I was one of those. I

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Speaker 1: didn't carry a placard.

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Speaker 3: I wish I did, did you much or to stand by?

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Speaker 2: I stood there where Tim Ross rang me come along

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Speaker 2: to this, and I went along and he did a

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Speaker 2: little speech because he's into architecture, and I could see

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Speaker 2: the importance of the building.

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Speaker 1: So the government at the Times sold it for one

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty million dollars.

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Speaker 3: This is a bag clim yes, state government.

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Speaker 2: And that money was then meant to be tipped into

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Speaker 2: social housing because the poor people that lived there.

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Speaker 1: You remember that old lady, Yeah, I met her, she

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Speaker 1: was living there.

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Speaker 3: So they all had to go. And obviously this new,

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Speaker 3: expensive building wasn't going to be for social housing. So

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Speaker 3: they said they'd use that money to make more social housing.

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Speaker 3: And have they and will they?

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Speaker 2: Well, do you trust the government? And that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: I knew that they would renig on the promise. But

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Speaker 2: my bigger thing was about the structure of the building,

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Speaker 2: keeping that integrity.

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Speaker 3: There, and they have. They've done an incredible job. They've

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Speaker 3: dropped in new squares of the Celebrity Square.

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Speaker 1: This is the news last night.

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Speaker 2: How important was it to keep the brutalist bones of

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Speaker 2: the building.

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Speaker 3: It was really important being able to show the building

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Speaker 3: as it was and to differentiate between what was new

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Speaker 3: and old.

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Speaker 2: The new distinctive copper pods will slowly age with the

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Speaker 2: building and eventually turn green.

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Speaker 3: Since probably taking twelve months to install the copper.

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Speaker 2: From start to feed, you can see some of us

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Speaker 2: starting to IgE caught nicely.

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Speaker 1: Now it's already had a worried you.

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Speaker 3: Know though, how much they're selling for now, they look incredible.

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Speaker 3: I saw on the news last night most of the

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Speaker 3: apartments I think have already been sold, ranging from one

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Speaker 3: point six million to thirty five million. Because the views

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Speaker 3: are spectacular. Some of them have full wrap round balconies.

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Speaker 3: They would be the thirty five million I'm assuming. Yeah, sorry,

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Speaker 3: the building's green, but still.

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Speaker 2: I bought a tea towel. Yeah, I bought two tea towels.

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Speaker 2: I bought one for Tim Ross as well. He said

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Speaker 2: he paid me back.

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Speaker 1: Never did.

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Speaker 3: Oh, your heart is so big.

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Speaker 1: Good on, you're serious.