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Curtin House is a six-storey Commercial Palazzo style building on Swanston Street in the Melbourne city centre, built in 1922 for the Tattersalls Club with offices to rent, and transformed in the early 2000s into a 'vertical laneway', with a range of specialist retailing, dining, and entertainment spaces occupying every floor and the roof.
The cinema is located eight storeys beneath the Melbourne Museum, and is the largest IMAX theatre in the Southern Hemisphere [1] [2] and the second largest in the world [3] by screen size, at 32 m × 23 m (105 ft × 75 ft). [30] The cinema seats 461 people, including 25 VIP seats. [31]
Palace Cinemas is an Australian cinema chain that specialises in arthouse and international films.. Their head office are based in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra and they operate locations in New South Wales (Central Park, [1] Norton Street, Byron Bay, Ballina [2] & Oxford St), [3] Victoria (Coburg, Brighton Bay, Northcote, Balwyn, Brighton, South Yarra, Melbourne, Moonee Ponds & The ...
Rivoli Cinema. The Rivoli Cinemas is an excellent example of Streamline Moderne, also known as Art Moderne, the late 1930s version of Art Deco architecture. [1] It is the only intact surviving example in Victoria of the work of cinema specialist architects H. Vivian Taylor and Soilleaux, a practice responsible for the architecture or acoustics of more than 500 cinemas and theatres in Australia ...
The Westgarth Theatre, formerly the Valhalla Cinema and now operating as the Palace Westgarth, is a heritage-listed movie theatre in the Westgarth neighbourhood of Northcote in Melbourne, Australia. It is the oldest continually-operating, purpose-built cinema in the city.
Melbourne comprises five of the ten tallest buildings in Australia and the city has routinely hosted the tallest building in Australia to architectural feature or roof. [3] As of 2025 [update] , the tallest building in Melbourne is the 100-storey Australia 108 , which stands 317 metres (1,040 ft) in height and whilst the second–tallest ...
The Screening of Australia, Volume 2: Anatomy of a National Cinema. Sydney: Currency Press, 1988. Moran, Albert and Tom O’Regan, eds. An Australian Film Reader (Australian Screen Series). Sydney: Currency Press, 1985. Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Film in Australia: An Introduction Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
The cinemas of the Sun Theatre are all named after closed-down cinemas in Melbourne, in particular Yarraville and the Western suburbs. [2] Grand, named after the last cinema to close operations in Footscray, is the Sun's largest cinema. Barkly, named after once famous Footscray cinema, is based on the dress circle of the original Sun.