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The Victoria Building was sold in 1963 and demolished in 1966 for potential high-rise development. [51] [52] However, the City of Melbourne purchased the vacant site [53] for its new City Square, which was completed in 1980. The square was replaced in 2000, and the replacement was itself demolished in 2018 as part of works for the Melbourne Metro.
Royal Exhibition Building. This is a non-exhaustive list of buildings in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and surrounding suburbs listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. This the highest level of protection afforded to a building in the state of Victoria.
Demolished buildings and structures in Melbourne (50 P) Pages in category "Demolished buildings and structures in Victoria (state)" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Engraving of Kew Asylum circa 1880. Buildings of Yarra Bend Asylum are depicted in the foreground. During the 1850s, the existing lunatic asylums of the Colony of Victoria were overcrowded. [10] Yarra Bend Asylum, while only six years old, was considered unsuitable [11] and Carlton Lunatic Asylum (which was originally a gaol) was in a state of ...
Abandoned buildings are typically eyesores. But what if someone takes these structures (many of them decades old) and turns them into something beautiful?
Walhalla, Victoria, was never fully abandoned and has now become a popular tourist town. Western Tyers, a timber community in Victoria, was abandoned after the timber mill closed in 1969. Whroo, a former mining town in Victoria. Wittenoom in Western Australia was the country's only source of blue asbestos (crocidolite) in the 1950s and 60s. The ...
Building began in 1987 and came to a halt in 1992 with the fall of the Soviet Union and a downturn in North Korea's economy. Standing at just over 1,000 feet tall, the hotel is the most visible ...
This is a list of former railway stations and railway lines in Victoria, Australia. Many of these stations and lines have been abandoned or demolished. There is a strong desire by communities to have many of these re-opened to better link Regional Victoria to the state capital Melbourne. Public transport has become increasingly popular in the ...