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HERITAGE
Does this carpark warrant heritage protection?
A car park seems an unlikely candidate for heritage protection, but an activist group “with 1,000 Facebook supporters” wants to save Melbourne’s Total Car Park from being torn down.
READ MOREWhy do we love old buildings so much?
In The Land Boomers, Michael Cannon reports how the ‘era of extravagance’ was climaxed in 1890 by the construction of a brand new edifice for railway officials in Spencer Street at a cost of £130,000. Writing in 1966, Cannon says this “remarkably ugly building….still houses civil servants…..within its dun-coloured walls”. There’s little doubting the historical [...]
READ MOREWhen is a building worth protecting?
The planning Tribunal’s decision on the former AMPOL building highlights a couple of issues about preserving significant buildings. In reaching its decision that demolition could proceed, VCAT’s thinking was that ”a greater community benefit for present and future generations will ensue from the establishment of the Peter Doherty Institute than from retention of the former Ampol [...]
READ MOREShould the old AMPOL building be demolished?
The key issue arising from the Elizabeth Tower Motor Lodge case isn’t that the building can now be demolished, but rather what’s proposed to replace it. The former AMPOL headquarters building is noted for its dramatic circular staircase, but its claims to historical significance aren’t compelling. According to the National Trust: Historically, it is of interest [...]
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