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Row of terraced houses in Middle Park, Melbourne, typical of those in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. Terrace houses in Australia began to be built in early 19th century Sydney, closely based on the models found in London and other UK cities.
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.
Theatre began on the site in 1866 in the small Australia Hall, replaced in 1872 after a fire as the much grander Prince of Wales Opera House. In 1895, British actor-manager Harry Rickards , who already managed the Tivoli Theatre in Sydney, took over the lease, and in 1901 replaced it with a new theatre by architect William Pitt .
Three people, of which two were police officers and one a firefighter, were injured when a garbage truck exploded in a Chicago suburb last Friday.. The police officers and firefighter were ...
140 William Street (formerly BHP House) is a 41-storey 152m tall steel, concrete and glass building located in the western end of the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Constructed between 1969 and 1972, BHP House was designed by the architectural practice Yuncken Freeman alongside engineers Irwinconsult, [ 1 ] with ...
The Joseph Simpson house is a relatively intact example of Boyd's design work and displays many of the typical features of his work. [10] In The Age's Liveable Melbourne report in 2019, Rosanna was ranked as Melbourne's 99th-most-liveable of 307 suburbs. The suburb was described as, "Rosanna, located 12 kilometres north-east of the CBD, is very ...
Wardlow, Parkville. Wardlow is an Australian house of historical significance located in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville.It was built in 1888 by John Boyes and is considered to be a fine example of the boom style Italianate architecture of that time, [1] and is listed by the Victorian National Trust.
The arrival of the 1950s saw contemporary high rise offices constructed and the ICI House, built in 1955, was Australia's tallest building at the time. [223] ICI House, breaking Melbourne's long standing 132 ft height limit, was the first International Style skyscraper in the country. [223]