After almost five years, the State Library VictoriaĀ has announced it will openĀ the doors on its $88.1 million renovation on December 5. The project set out to increase public space by 40 per cent and was headed by Australasian design firmĀ ArchitectusĀ in collaboration withĀ Scandinavian firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. Construction was carried out by Built, which has […]
State Library Victoria has opened the first of its redeveloped spaces as part of Vision 2020, an ambitious $88.1 million transformation that will increase public space by 40 percent and seating by 70 percent. Two new reading rooms were unveiled along with a dedicated special events venue supported by a state-of-the-art production kitchen, and a […]
You may walk past these bastions of the built environment every day or have seen them in a thousand holiday photographs, but what did they look like when they were just a twinkling in their creator's eye? Skeletons looks at the origins of notable buildings, beginning with the State Library of Victoria.