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Manchester Unity Building 72 reviews #71 of 812 things to do in Melbourne Points of Interest & LandmarksArchitectural Buildings Write a review About Melbourne's iconic Manchester Unity Building represents a rare blend of art, science, culture and commerce.
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Cost: $60 per person Book a Tour Book a tour of the iconic Manchester Unity Building. Tours run one Sunday per month and include breakfast, lunch or afternoon tea and a glass of bubbles. Book online today!
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The Manchester Unity building was the first in Victoria to have escalators. Manchester Unity's beautiful interior is lavishly decorated with fine wood and marble. Within the foyer figures of industrious Victorians are illustrated. The most famous feature of this building is the 11th floor board room, which is lined with wood-panelling and.
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Built in 1932, the Manchester Unity Building is an Art Deco building housing twelve stories of offices, residential units, and retail spaces. One of the great landmarks of Melbourne, the prominent building is clad in terracotta tin-glazed tiles and crowned with a turreted gothic style tower.
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If you missed out on the tour of Melbourne's Manchester Unity Building at last weekend's Open House Melbourne, then you're in luck. The building's chairman, Dr Kia Pajouhesh, is offering twenty people the chance to win tickets for an exclusive tour of this art deco Melbourne landmark. The tour starts at 11am on 12 August 2012 and.
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The location of the iconic Manchester Unity Building is 220 Collins Street in the heart of Melbourne's CBD. Corner of Collins Street and Swanston Street.
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A man stands on the roof of Melbourne's Manchester Unity Building shortly after its construction in 1932. Picture: State Library of Victoria The depression pulled the rug from under the hopes of construction giants whose fortunes vanished, leading them to the breadline with the men who laid the bricks.
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The construction of the Manchester Unity Building in Melbourne in 1932 was the organisation's response to the need to create jobs for its members during a time of severe unemployment. The twelve-story Art Deco marvel provided not only employment but was one of the most modern buildings in the nation.
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The Manchester Unity Building is an Art Deco Gothic inspired office and retail building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, constructed in 1931-32 for the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows.The soaring stepped corner tower on a prominent intersection opposite the Melbourne Town Hall makes it one of the most prominent and best known buildings in Melbourne.
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Manchester Unity Building Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Australia & Pacific Melbourne Built in 1932, this honey-coloured art-deco skyscraper brings a slice of Chicago (or possibly Gotham City) to Swanston St. It's worth popping into the foyer to admire the mosaic floor, brass lifts and relief sculpture of heroic workers edging the ceiling.
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Melbourne's iconic Manchester Unity Building represents a rare blend of art, science, culture and commerce. As a magnificent structure, a monument to human endeavour and a hub of personal interaction, it has a special place in the history and fortunes of Melbourne as well as the hearts of its people. Built in 1932 on the site of Stewart Dawson.
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The Manchester Unity Building was one of the first Victorian buildings with automatic cooling. In summer the air was cooled by a huge water tank that stayed cold below ground level and on very hot days was further cooled by several tons of ice. In winter the air was heated by oil-fuelled boilers.
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The original architect of Melbourne's Manchester Unity building, Marcus Barlow, was a believer in progress. Turning his attention from domestic to commercial architecture in the 1920s, he believed that Melbourne needed to modernize and that the skyscraper urbanism of New York and Chicago was the way forward.
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The Manchester Unity Building is an Art Deco Gothic inspired office and retail building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, constructed in 1931-32 for the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows.
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Built during the Great Depression, the Manchester Unity Building was designed by architect Marcus Barlow for the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows. The site was purchased for £250,000 and construction began midnight on the 1st of January 1932.