Jacob's Ladder Apartments

Krantz and Sheldon.

1960. Demolished.

Mount Bay Road, Perth.

Image: Krantz and Sheldon, pencil on trace, 1960.

The Australian Mutual Provident Society is to build a 13-storey block of 123 flats costing approximately £400,000, in Mounts Bay Road on the city side of Cliff Street, Perth.

The 130ft. high block, incorporating bachelor and one and two-bedroom flats, will be one of the tallest buildings in Perth and the largest privately owned flat block ever built in the city.

Built on a T-shaped three quarter-acre block immediately adjacent to Jacob’s Ladder, construction of the flats will be steel and concrete on the load bearing principle rather than the normal column and beam method.

The block will comprise 49 bachelor flats, 50 one-bedroom flats and 24 two-bedroom flats. Each unit will contain a river view from the wide and deep balconies fronting onto the lounge rooms. Two lifts and stairways will service the block while a unique steel bridge and concrete 120ft. long footbridge, will link the top storey to King’s Park. The block will be equipped with a ground floor community community laundry fitted with washing machines, and at each floor level there will be garbage disposal hoppers connecting a central chute to the ground-floor incinerator.  Ample parking space will be provided through the use of ramps to a multi-level parking area.

Architecture and the Arts, October 1960.