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The Gauge: 825 Bourke Street, Victoria Harbour. Docklands

The Gauge is a six level office building developed in 2008 by Bovis Lend Lease through Lend Lease’s architects and BVN.

Architecturally the building is dictated by green design principles. The building extends lengthways down Merchant Street. The exterior is modern, curtain wall glass with metal shadesd. The most and features a large shade structure with a yellow coloured edge originating on the eastern side and cantilevering to the west over the top. This structure shields an internal atrium which runs up the east side of the building.

It was opened in August 2009 by John Lenders.1

  1. Docklands Community News, October 2009

Former Melbourne Metropolitan Tramways Board Building: 616-618 Little Collins Street, Melbourne

616 Little Collins Street, Melbourne

Originally built for the former Melbourne Metropolitan Tramways Board this is a striking six storey building is a combination of styles with a main facade facing Little Collins Street and arranged in three palazzo along Godfrey Street.  It has elements of moderne, stripped classical and art deco architecture.

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