Overheard on William St, Melbourne
'I remember when this went up. I must 'ave been about 14. I was gobsmacked!'
posted by Mark Lawrence @ 1:58 pm
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
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3 Comments:
Is that polished marble?
Nah, rusty iron, I think. Or some alloy of iron. It's just very oxidised.
I remember when it went up to, and I was only about 5. The AMP building was the tallest in Melbourne, but was pretty quickly overtaken by the BHP headquarters opposite. Which, appropriately, was also all oxidised iron. I don't get down that end of town much any more, but I reckon St James Plaza around the AMP building stands up well as a piece of late 1960s/early 1970s urban architecture, even though the AMP building itself is now dwarfed
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