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    The Empire Building was home to commercial, retail arcade with offices and showrooms over, in the city of Melbourne, Australia. It stands beside the Mutual...
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    Melbourne is home to approximately 758 completed high-rise buildings. Of those completed and or topped-out, 77 buildings are defined as "skyscrapers"–buildings...
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  • Empire Building may refer to: Empire Building (Melbourne) Empire Building (Birmingham, Alabama) Empire Building (Atlanta) or the J. Mack Robinson College...
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  • Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia, was an important Victorian-era city and erected "some of the world's most majestic buildings" of the era...
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    1890, Melbourne was the second-largest city in the British Empire and one of the world's richest. "The Story of Melbourne". The Argus. Melbourne: National...
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    Second Empire style. Reed's designs also included the State Library of Victoria, the Royal Exhibition Building, and Melbourne Trades Hall. The building is...
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    gold rush, Melbourne entered a lengthy boom period. By the 1880s, it had become one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the British Empire, second only...
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    Achaemenid Empire has been recognized for its imposition of a successful model of centralized bureaucratic administration, its multicultural policy, building complex...
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  • The University of Melbourne (also colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded...
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    The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its...
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    Victoria, currently Margaret Gardner. It is located in Kings Domain, Melbourne, next to the Royal Botanic Gardens. Government House was opened in 1876...
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  • The history of Melbourne details the city's growth from a fledgling settlement into a modern commercial and financial centre as Australia's second largest...
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    Neo-Baroque architectural style that was popular for public buildings in the British Empire during the Edwardian era (1901–1910). Architecture up to 1914...
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    finished in June 2006 and the building was officially opened on 11 October 2006. The project was designed by Melbourne architectural firm Fender Katsalidis...
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  • skyscraper as then-defined was Melbourne's now demolished APA Building, completed in 1889, which was among the tallest buildings in the world at the time....
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    Australia. Built in an elaborate Second Empire style, it reflects the opulence of the "Marvellous Melbourne" boom period, and had a number of innovative...
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    Windsor is a luxury hotel in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Opened in 1884, the Windsor is notable for being Melbourne's only surviving purpose-built...
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    120 Collins Street (category Skyscraper office buildings in Melbourne)
    postmodern style building, paying homage to New York City's grand Art Deco buildings, such as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. This influence...
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    Rialto Towers (category Skyscraper office buildings in Melbourne)
    to compete in the Empire State Building race. The event was run until 2005 and competitors had to go up 1254 steps. The Melbourne Observation Deck opened...
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    152m tall steel, concrete and glass building located in the western end of the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Constructed...
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    Australia 108 (redirect from Melbourne 108)
    Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Having officially topped out in June 2020, it became the tallest building in Australia by roof height...
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    Palace was a large, elaborate French Second Empire style 560 room temperance hotel in the city centre of Melbourne, Victoria, built between 1886 and 1888 at...
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    it one of the tallest buildings in Melbourne at the time it was built in 1991. Other parts of the complex include the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre...
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    Bourke streets in Melbourne, is the former General Post Office for Victoria, Australia. Still owned by the Federal Government, the building appears on all...
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  • Aurora Melbourne Central is a 270.5-metre (887 ft) high residential skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia. It is Melbourne's third-tallest building and the...
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    Melbourne Square is a A$2.8 billion building complex of residential mixed-use towers in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Victoria. The complex will...
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    217 feet above the building. Two machinery annexes, each 460 x 138 feet, were built at the rear of the main building. The Melbourne International Exhibition...
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    Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, 1885 St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide (Gothic Revival) Sydney Town Hall, in Second Empire style Queen Victoria Building in Romanesque...
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    Joseph Reed (architect) (category Architects from Melbourne)
    fashionable Second Empire style Reed also designed Melbourne Town Hall (1870) while the World Heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building, completed for the...
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    The Federal Court Building on the corner of La Trobe Street and William Street, the location of the Melbourne division of the Family Court of Australia...
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