Famed Canadian-American architect and designer Frank Gehry once said of his profession, “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness”.
Gehry could have been speaking about the Melbourne City Council and the Victorian capital’s central business district.
A 100-year-old bookstore, an even older women’s club, one of the city’s first glass towers and a laneway now famous for Australia’s most successful hard rock band will all be given heritage status under a major change to Melbourne’s planning scheme.
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