Two decades before Melbourne finally got Federation Square, a major competition gripped the imagination of the city - and the world - for the space. This is what they came up with.
Twenty-one years after Federation Square was built, we look at the Melbourne landmark’s controversial history and plans for its future.
McGlashan Everist – which had won architecture awards for the designs of Grimwade House and Heide Museum – saw the landmark competition as an opportunity to return the Yarra River valley to the people of Melbourne.“Everyone had gone around looking at city landmarks around the world – Melbourne versions of the St Louis Gateway Arch,” Baillieu says.
“It was a glorious farce,” recalls former advertising executive Phillip Adams, one of the eight judges. While the competition was open to anyone, some of the entries were from high-profile architects and artists. “It just shows how blinkered the authorities and everybody was at the time. The competition wasn’t a waste of time, but it was certainly a wasted opportunity.”
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