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Curtin House is a six-storey Commercial Palazzo style building on Swanston Street in the Melbourne city centre, built in 1922 for the Tattersalls Club with offices to rent, and transformed in the early 2000s into a 'vertical laneway', with a range of specialist retailing, dining, and entertainment spaces occupying every floor and the roof.
The Menzies Hotel constructed between 1867 and1896 was Melbourne's first luxury hotel. Pictured in 1908 the building was demolished in 1969 to make way for BHP House. BHP acquired a site at 498-502 Bourke Street in 1948 for £47,250 and earmarked it for demolition to construct a 12 storey office tower for its new headquarters. [ 5 ]
The Melbourne City Council decided to build a new fish market in West Melbourne, which opened in 1959, and Whelan's demolished the old market in the same year. [ 76 ] [ 26 ] Its elaborate wrought-iron gates were saved and are now at the entrance to Fawkner Cemetery .
The shortest-priced favourite in Cup history was Phar Lap when he won in 1930 at 8-11 ($1.72).; Metrication – The race was originally held over two miles (about 3,218 metres), but following Australia's adoption of the Metric system in the 1970s the current distance of 3,200 metres was adopted in 1972.
Royal drapery dating back to the 1950s during the late Queen’s reign has been repurposed by textiles students from the King’s Foundation.
The AON Centre is one of Melbourne’s earliest examples of the International Style in office design and was the key point in the commencement of a series of black clad commercial and institutional buildings designed and produced by the Yuncken Freeman Architects firm throughout the later half of the 20th Century.