City of Melbourne, Australia

Century Building

City of Melbourne, Australia

The Century Building in Melbourne is a Streamline Moderne structure completed in 1940 and designed by architect Marcus Barlow. Listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, it exemplifies the sleek, aerodynamic aesthetic that characterized modernist design of the interwar era, with its emphasis on curved forms and horizontal lines suggesting movement and progress.

Architect

Movement

Built

1940

Type

building

Heritage

listed on the Victorian Heritage Register

Place

City of Melbourne, Australia

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• WikidataCentury Building↗

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Location

-37.81470, 144.96600