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“Featureless” design atop heritage building slammed
The City of Melbourne has criticised a “plain” design directive from Heritage Victoria for a development atop the heritage-listed former Melford Motors building.
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Questions still loom over Fed Square
Following Heritage Victoria’s decision to reject a demolition permit for the Yarra Building, Apple and the state government conceded that plans for a flagship store in the square had become untenable.
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Cosmic Mist
Easy Brown’s Chicken Truck Stop Band are a four piece band hailing from Melbourne who should be on the musical horizon of music fans everywhere.
Read MoreCaught in tight places
The CFMEU office is at the centre of Lindsay Tanner’s new novel Comeback as the union tries to sort out a crooked developer with shonky safety practices and traps a taxi driver in its web.
Read MoreAnother side of homelessness
The complex issue of what to do to relieve homelessness in the city is high on Residents 3000 members’ list of concerns.
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Napier Waller – a great public artist
Few people passing Newspaper House at 247 Collins St notice the colourful mosaic spanning the exterior of the first floor.
Read MoreWalks, missing headphones and autumn
The start of autumn and we’ve been blessed with gentle sunshine, cooling breezes and a kind of energy in the air that lends itself to getting out and about.
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Second road header starts excavating
Construction activity in the CBD is ramping up 30 metres underground as part of Metro Tunnel Project works.
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Going up! Historic lifts in Melbourne
If you’re old enough, you probably remember the lift attendants at Myers or Buckleys.
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A ‘beautiful set of numbers’
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