One of the few apartment buildings of this type in Australia. First seen by the owner of the Wyldefel mansion (William Crowle) in a town in Germany, he carried the idea back to Sydney and contracted architect John Brogan to recreate the design based on photographs he had taken whilst on holidays. Centered around a landscaped communal garden, with stepped tiers down from one aprtment to the next. The roofs of lower apartments provide courtyards for apartments above them. Distinctive in this building are the curved windows which were not in fact on the original plans. The gardens originally extended right down to the harbour's edge until the Navy reclaimed the land during World War II.