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Northbank Place: 525-565 Flinders Street, Melbourne
Northbank Place viewed from the north west corner of Flinders and Spencer Street
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Northbank Place is a group of three mixed use towers developed between November 2008 and May 2009.
Media House: 655 Collins Street, Docklands
Media House, opened October 28 2009 by Victorian premier John Brumby, is the latest purpose built headquarters of The Age newspaper, one of Melbourne’s longest running papers. A major feature of the building is its giant digital media screen which faces and open plaza that steps and slopes down to the corner of Spencer and Collins Street.
Designed by Bates Smart1, and constructed by Grocon for Fairfax media group at a cost of $110 million2 it was designed to be a contemporary replacement for the dated old Age offices further down Spencer Street.
Myer Headquarters: 800 Collins Street, Docklands
Seven17 Bourke: 717 Bourke Street, Docklands
Seven17 Bourke is an 18 storey 40,000 sqm 5-star green office building12. Construction began in 2007 and the building was completed and opened in 2011. It was designed by Metier 3 and constructed by Probuild3 as a new home of the Channel 9 television network at a cost of $190 million.
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Tags: 18 storey, 2010s, 2011, 21st century, 5 star green rating, channel nine, green building, metier 3, modern, office building, probuild, sustainable | 
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Advanced Technologies Centre (ATC). Swinburne University. 427-451 Burwood Road, Hawthorn
Advanced Technologies Centre (ATC). Swinburne University viewed from across Burwood road looking north west
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The Advanced Technologies Centre was completed in early 2011 and was developed at a cost of $140 million.1
The building’s most interesting feature is its giant “spotted” concrete facade of its twin 10 storey towers which are dotted with portholes laid out in a geometrical pattern like an old fashioned dot matrix printer and its dominating three storey transparent glass street level podium which stands begging for attention in largely Victorian era streetscape.
Grand Hyatt. 123 Collins Street, Melbourne