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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
State Library of Victoria
The State Library of Victoria on Swanston Street in Melbourne and its Domed Reading Room.
Behind the library is an apartment block and the headquarters of BHP-Billiton, world's largest mining company.
Saint George and the Dragon at the Library Forecourt
The Domed La Trobe Reading Room
La Trobe Reading Room Desks
La Trobe Reading Room Dome
The library was renovated between 1999 and 2003. Before then the skylights were covered up as the roof was leaking. Without the Australian sun pouring in through the skylights the library had a more Gothic Northern European feel to it. Or maybe that's just my memory of it when studying the in my school years.
La Trobe Reading Book Shelves
La Trobe Reading Room Study Desks
Redmond Barry Reading Room
Behind the library is an apartment block and the headquarters of BHP-Billiton, world's largest mining company.
Saint George and the Dragon at the Library Forecourt
The Domed La Trobe Reading Room
La Trobe Reading Room Desks
La Trobe Reading Room Dome
The library was renovated between 1999 and 2003. Before then the skylights were covered up as the roof was leaking. Without the Australian sun pouring in through the skylights the library had a more Gothic Northern European feel to it. Or maybe that's just my memory of it when studying the in my school years.
La Trobe Reading Book Shelves
La Trobe Reading Room Study Desks
Redmond Barry Reading Room
Labels: australia, books, melbourne
Posted by James Clark - editor of itravelnet.com
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