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Victorian Trades Hall is the headquarters of the Victorian Trades Hall Council in Australia. It is located on the corner of Lygon and Victoria streets, just north of the Melbourne central business district in the suburb of Carlton. It is the world's oldest trade union building.
The 2,466-seat hall, the largest indoor venue at the Arts Centre Melbourne, is mostly used for orchestral and contemporary music performances. It was designed by Roy Grounds as part of the cultural centre which comprised the National Gallery of Victoria and the Arts Centre Melbourne.
- 1982
- Victorian Arts Centre Trust
- 1973
- Southbank, Victoria
Coordinates: 37.811055°S 144.97329°E. 1854 design by Knight & Kerr with Captain Pasley. Model of 1855 design by Knight & Kerr. 1877 design for west front and dome, by Peter Kerr. Parliament House is the meeting place of the Parliament of Victoria, one of the parliaments of the Australian states and territories .
- 1855
- Victoria
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342 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000. Directions. Website. Study up on the green brain-like canopy and mathematical entrance design of RMIT University’s most iconic and polarising building facades.
Victoria’s Trades Hall, rising grandly from the northern edge of the Melbourne CBD, is a national treasure and a symbol of the aspirations of the Australian people. For over 150 years the Trades Hall building has given form to dreams of a better life for working people and their families.
Since opening in 1870, this grand neoclassical civic building has welcomed everyone from Queen Elizabeth II, who took tea here in 1954, to the Beatles, who waved to thousands of screaming fans from the balcony in 1964.
The Melbourne Concert Hall seats 2,600. Its patrons appreciate not only the technical brilliance of the acoustic engineering but also the hall’s superb decoration in colours derived from the gemstone and mining industry, which makes the hall appear to have been carved out of a hillside. Read More.
