Category: Buildings
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When did the Founders’ Building open?
Built on the site of the old International House squash court, the building we know as Founders’ was completed in November 2004 and opened on 11 February 2005 (Larkins, 2018, 165).1 But the building wasn’t yet called Founders’; instead it was simply the ‘New Building’ (Munro, 2008, 3). The building was named in 2008, after […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2020/08/27/when-did-the-founders-building-open
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Why is Scheps that shape?
The hexadecagonal (sixteen-sided) Scheps building is a familiar Royal Parade landmark. But why is Scheps that shape? Scheps appears to be a ‘rescaled version’ of a similar, sixteen-sided building in Hobart in Tasmania, the Wrest Point Casino (Larkins, 2018, p. 84). However, the casino was built by a different construction company, A. V. Jennings Industries […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2020/08/20/why-is-scheps-that-shape
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Why are there three buildings in the picture?
This promotional postcard held in the International Archives shows three buildings all of which appear to be ‘Clunies’. Early discussions about International House included plans and costings for three wings. Each was to house around forty-two residents with one building only for women. Insufficient funds meant that only one wing (pictured below, shortly after its […]
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