Recommended by Mr Jefa Greenaway, founder and architect at Greenaway Architects, Lecturer/Knowledge Broker at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, currently reshaping the curriculum to incorporate Indigenous knowledge and perspectives. Designed and built by the Gunditjmara people. Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, South Western Victoria - GDA 94 Zone 54 577865E 5783992N, dating to approximately 6600 years ago Budj Bim cultural landscape. Yet each building is architecturally distinct: from Gothic intensity to plainer Classicism, with inflections of Northern Italy and Scotland, these are an eclectic riot of colour, tinged with the frisson of experiment and daring.”Ģ. “They were built at the time when Melbourne was the third richest city in the British Empire (after London and Glasgow), and they are distinguished by their wealth of ornament. “Saved by activism in the 1970s – the so-called ‘green bans’ – this stand of five buildings on the west end of Collins Street are a remarkably coherent set which exemplifies the ambition and excitement of boom-time Melbourne. Recommended by Professor Julie Willis, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, co-director of the ACAHUCH Research Hub and architectural historian. The (original) Rialto: architect William Pitt.
The Winfield Building: architect Charles D’Ebro and Richard Speight Jnr. The Record Chambers Building: architect J.A.B. The SA Insurance Building: architect Oakden, Addison and Kemp. The Olderfleet to the Rialto, Melbourne, Victoria, 1888 - 1892 The Olderfleet Building: architect William Pitt builder G.
We caught up with ten of the University of Melbourne’s top experts to find out which Australian architectural sites they consider iconic, and why. And so, good design can have an enormous impact on our quality of life, public health and the sustainability of our environment. Many people spend the majority of their lives in buildings and constructed spaces our homes, our workplaces, our cities. Less obviously, it guides and controls our way of living, the way we use space, navigate our cities and create communities. It creates iconic skylines, signals great civilisations and builds must-see landmarks which define entire countries.Īrchitecture has the power to capture imaginations hundreds, even thousands, of years after it was built.
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