Australian non-residential architectural styles
Australian non-residential architectural styles are a set of Australian architectural styles that apply to buildings used for purposes other than residence and have been around only since the first colonial government buildings of early European settlement of Australia in 1788.
Their distribution follows closely the establishment and growth of the different colonies of Australia, in that the earliest colonial buildings can be found in New South Wales and Tasmania.
The classifications set out below are derived from a leading Australian text.[1]
Old Colonial Period (1788–c. 1840)
- Old Colonial Georgian; Old Colonial Regency; Old Colonial Grecian; Old Colonial Gothic Picturesque
Old Colonial Georgian


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St Luke's Anglican Church, Liverpool, New South Wales. Completed 1820; designed by Francis Greenway, Colonial Architect.
Old Liverpool Hospital (main block). Completed 1822; designed by Francis Greenway, Colonial Architect.
St Peter's Anglican Church, Campbelltown, New South Wales; completed 1823.[9]
The Old Windmill, Brisbane; completed 1824; Brisbane's oldest building
Greenway Wing (Former Supreme Court of New South Wales) Sydney; completed 1828; designed by Francis Greenway, Colonial Architect..jpg.webp)
Old Colonial Regency
Parliament House, Sydney. Completed 1816
Sydney Mint. Completed 1816
Old King's School, Parramatta, New South Wales. Completed 1833
Lord Nelson Hotel, Millers Point, Sydney. Completed 1835.[12]
Hero of Waterloo Hotel, Sydney. Completed 1844
Orient Hotel, The Rocks, New South Wales; completed 1844.
Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain, New South Wales. Completed 1848
St James Old Cathedral. King Street, Melbourne; 1839-1849, resited 1914. One of Melbourne's oldest surviving buildings.[13]
Old Colonial Grecian
Hartley Courthouse, Hartley, New South Wales; completed 1836.[14]
St. George's Anglican Church, Battery Point, Tasmania; completed 1836; steeple and portico from 1841.[15]


Old Colonial Gothic Picturesque
St John's Cathedral, Parramatta. Completed in 1802, towers added in 1819
The former government stables, now the Sydney Conservatorium of Music; completed in 1821.[19]_St_Patricks_Church_1.JPG.webp)
St James' Anglican Church, Morpeth, New South Wales; completed in 1840
Holy Trinity Anglican Church (The Garrison Church), Millers Point, New South Wales; completed in 1846
Victorian period (c. 1840–c. 1890)
The Victorian period, generally aligned with the reign of Queen Victoria, covers the period from c. 1840 to c. 1890 and comprises fifteen styles, all prefaced by the word "Victorian", and are namely, in loose chronological order, Georgian, Regency, Egyptian, Academic Classical, Free Classical, Filigree, Mannerist, Second Empire, Italianate, Romanesque, Byzantine, Academic Gothic, Free Gothic, Tudor, Rustic Gothic, and Carpenter Gothic.
Victorian Georgian
An extension and continuation of the Old Colonial Georgian style into the Victorian era.[22] Georgian style houses built before c.1840 are characterised as Old Colonial Georgian, while buildings buildings between c.1840 and c.1890 are characterised as Victorian Georgian. Both styles are essentially the same, being characterised by symmetrical facades, simple rectangular and prismatic shapes, and orderliness. Six and eight paned windows were common.[22]
Albury Court House, Albury, New South Wales; built 1860; Palladian-style
Campbell's Stores, The Rocks; built 1850–1861
Victorian Regency
As with Victorian Georgian architecture, the Victorian Regency style was a continuation of the Old Colonial Regency style into the Victorian era (c.1840 – c.1890).[23] A more elegant and refined form of the Georgian style.
Old Government House, Brisbane, Queensland; completed 1862
Sydney School of Arts, 1861
Rockpool, The Rocks, Sydney
103 George Street, The Rocks, New South Wales
Dundee Arms Hotel, The Rocks, Sydney
Redfern Town Hall, New South Wales
Victorian Egyptian
Hobart Synagogue, Tasmania (1845).[24]
Commonwealth Bank building, Murwillumbah, New South Wales
Launceston Synagogue, Tasmania. (1846).[25]
Masonic Centre, Adelaide, South Australia. (1858)
Obelisk at junction of Elizabeth and Bathurst Streets, Sydney.[26]
Obelisk, Sydney, detail
Victorian Academic Classical
Australian Museum, Sydney; completed in 1857
Treasury Building, Sydney. Completed 1851
State Library of Victoria, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria; completed 1856
Parliament House, Melbourne; completed 1856.[28]
Former Baptist Church House, East Melbourne, Victoria; completed 1863
Launceston Town Hall, Launceston, Tasmania; c.1864.[29]
Melbourne Trades Hall; completed 1875
Old State Library Building, Brisbane; completed 1879

Customs House, Sydney; completed in 1887
Parliament House, Adelaide, South Australia; completed in 1889
St Kilda Town Hall, Victoria; completed 1890
Carrington House; Bathurst, New South Wales. Completed 1890
Victorian Free Classical

General Post Office, Sydney; built between 1866-91 and 1910 in the Free Classical and Italian Renaissance styles[35][36][37]
Orange Post Office, New South Wales. Completed 1879
Albury Post Office, Albury, New South Wales. Completed 1880
Bathurst Courthouse, New South Wales. Completed 1880
Grahame's Corner, Sydney. Completed 1882
Gardiner House, Sydney. 1885
Goulburn Court House; built between 1885-87 and demonstrating Palladian concepts and Mannerist influences[40]
St Georges Hall, Newtown, New South Wales. Completed 1887
Victoria Hotel in Albert Park, Victoria; completed 1888
North Sydney Post Office, New South Wales; completed 1889[45]
Fitzroy Town Hall, Victoria; completed in 1890[46]
Paddington Town Hall, Paddington, Sydney; built between 1890-91[47]
NSW Department of Lands building, in Bridge Street, Sydney, constructed between 1876 and 1892.[48][49]
Pinnacle House, Sydney. Completed 1892
Royal Naval House, Sydney. Completed 1890s
Hong Kong House, Sydney central business district[50]
Victorian Filigree

Reid's Coffee Palace, Ballarat, Victoria; completed 1886
Regatta Hotel, Toowong, Queensland, present building constructed in 1886
Chief Mechanical Engineer's office, Eveleigh, New South Wales; built 1887.
London Chartered Bank of Australia Building, Bourke, New South Wales. Completed 1888.
Victorian Mannerist
Notable examples in Australia include: Culwulla Chambers (Sydney); Old Police Station, The Rocks Block Arcade (Melbourne); Stalbridge Chambers (Melbourne), National Bank Pall Mall (Bendigo); RESI Chambers (Melbourne); Lygon Buildings, Medley Hall (Carlton, Victoria); Former Money Order Post Office and Savings Bank (Melbourne); Mutual Store (Melbourne);
Former Mutual Store, Flinders Street, Melbourne; completed 1891
Stalbridge Chambers, Little Collins Street, Melbourne; completed 1891
Benvenuta, Carlton, Victoria; completed 1893
Former Prahran Arcade, Prahran, Victoria; completed 1889
Lygon Buildings, Lygon Street, Carlton, Victoria; completed 1888
The Strand Arcade, Sydney; Completed in 1892
Culwulla Chambers, Sydney; completed in 1912
The Sydney Club, Sydney. Completed 1887
73 York Street, Sydney (right hand side). Completed 1890s
Agincourt Hotel; Chippendale, Sydney. Completed 1898
Cooma courthouse; Cooma, New South Wales
Victorian Second Empire
Notable examples include: Sydney Town Hall (Sydney); Hotel Windsor (Melbourne); Princess Theatre (Melbourne); Former Records Office (Melbourne); Melbourne General Post Office (Melbourne); Melbourne Town Hall (Melbourne); East Melbourne Synagogue (East Melbourne, Victoria); Royal Exhibition Building (Carlton, Victoria); Collingwood Town Hall (Collingwood, Victoria); South Melbourne Town Hall (South Melbourne, Victoria); Malvern Town Hall (Malvern, Victoria); Former Rechabite Hall (Prahran, Victoria); Brunswick Town Hall (Brunswick, Victoria); Camberwell Town Hall (Camberwell, Victoria); Bendigo Town Hall (Bendigo, Victoria); Shamrock Hotel (Bendigo Victoria); Bendigo Courthouse (Bendigo, Victoria); Bendigo Post Office (Bendigo, Victoria); Institute of Technology (Bendigo, Victoria); Queensland Parliament House (Brisbane)
Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria; completed 1866
Queensland Parliament, Brisbane; completed 1868
Kew Asylum, Kew, Victoria; completed 1871
East Melbourne Synagogue. East Melbourne, Victoria; completed 1877
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne; completed 1880
Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, Victoria; completed 1883
General Post Office; completed 1887
Former Rechabite Hall, Prahran, Victoria; completed 1888
Malvern Town Hall, Malvern, Victoria; completed 1890
Bendigo Town Hall, Bendigo, Victoria; completed 1885
Bendigo Post Office, Bendigo, Victoria; completed 1892
Bendigo Court House, Bendigo, Victoria; completed 1892
Shamrock Hotel, Bendigo, Victoria; completed 1897
Grand Hotel, Healesville, Victoria
Chief Secretary's building, Sydney. Completed 1886. Also displays Victorian Free Classical architectural traits
Sydney Town Hall. Completed 1889
Waterloo Town Hall, Waterloo, New South Wales, with Victorian Italianate and Victorian Second Empire architectural elements. Completed 1881
City Bank building, Young, New South Wales.
Bathurst District Hospital, Bathurst, New South Wales. Completed 1886
Tenterfield Post Office, New South Wales with Victorian Second Empire and Victorian Italianate architectural elements. Completed 1880s
Victorian Italianate
Albury railway station, Albury, New South Wales; built 1881
Institute Building, Darlington, Sydney
Leichhardt Town Hall, New South Wales; completed in 1888
Balmain Court House, Balmain, Sydney. Completed 1888
Glebe Town Hall, Glebe, New South Wales; built between 1879-80[51]
Kings Hotel, Sydney. Completed 1879
Former National House (now Hotel CBD), York Street, Sydney
Redfern Post Office, Sydney. Completed 1882.[52]
Goulburn Post Office, New South Wales. Completed 1881
Forbes Post Office, New South Wales. Completed 1881
Royal Hotel, Queenscliff, Victoria
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Victorian Romanesque
St Michael's Uniting Church, Melbourne; completed 1866
Burns Philp Building, Sydney; completed 1901
St Mark's Church, Darling Point, New South Wales
St Saviours Anglican Church, Redfern, New South Wales
St Johns Church in Glebe, New South Wales; completed 1870
St Andrew's Church, Manly, New South Wales; completed in 1890[54]
Victorian Renaissance Revival
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Former Bank of NSW building, now KFC fast food restaurant, located at 107-109 Bathurst Street, Sydney, constructed between 1894 and 1895.[56]
Newcastle Customs House, New South Wales. Completed 1899
Victorian Byzantine
Jubilee Building, Perth; opened 1899
Holy Trinitity Orthodox Church; Surry Hills, Sydney. Completed 1890s
Victorian Academic Gothic
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St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney. Completed 1868
University of Sydney (main quadrangle); completed 1855
Anderson Stuart Building (University of Sydney); completed 1883
Old Pathology Building (University of Melbourne); completed 1885
St Peter's Cathedral, Armidale, New South Wales. Completed 1875
St John's College, Sydney
Victorian Free Gothic
Former Metropolitan Gas Company Buildings; Flinders Street, Melbourne; completed 1892; Venetian Gothic applied to a tall building
Ormond College, Melbourne University; completed 1881
Former Stock Exchange, Collins Street, Melbourne; completed 1888.[57]
Former Safe Deposit Building, Collins Street, Melbourne; completed 1890
ANZ Bank, 390 Collins Street, Melbourne; completed 1883


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St Vincent's College, Potts Point, Sydney. Completed 1886
St Patrick's Seminary, Manly, New South Wales; completed 1885
Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church, Annandale, New South Wales. Completed 1889
St Paul's Presbyterian Church; Armidale, New South Wales. Completed 1882
Nightingale Wing, Sydney Hospital. Completed 1869
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales. Completed 1892
Rozelle Public School, Rozelle, Sydney
Victorian Tudor (Jacobethan)
Government House, Sydney with Gothic Picturesque elements. Completed 1845
Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne; completed 1857
Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney; completed 1862
Government House, Perth; completed in 1864
The Barracks Arch, Perth; completed in 1863
HM Prison Pentridge, Coburg, Victoria; completed in 1864
Old Registry Wing (Supreme Court of New South Wales), Sydney. Completed 1862
North Terrace, University of Adelaide
Victorian Rustic Gothic
St Mark's Rectory, Darling Point, Sydney
Tenterfield School of Arts, New South Wales.
Ryde Public School; Ryde, New South Wales
Manly Congregational Church, New South Wales
Former North Sydney Technical High School, North Sydney, New South Wales
Victorian Carpenter Gothic
Christ the King Church, Graceville, Queensland
Blayney Uniting Church; Blayney, New South Wales.
St John's Lutheran Church, Minyip, Victoria
Sandgate Baptist Church, Queensland
Edwardian period (c. 1890s–1910)
Edwardian architecture is generally less ornate than high or late Victorian architecture,[64] apart from a subset - used for major buildings - known as Edwardian Baroque architecture.
Edwardian Baroque
Notable examples include the Lands Administration Building in Brisbane, the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne (main pavilion, now Queen Victoria Women's Centre), the Commonwealth Offices, Treasury Place, Melbourne, the Department of Education building in Sydney (1912)[65] and the General Post Office in Hobart.
Department of Education building, Sydney.
Land Administration Building, Brisbane. Completed 1905
Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. Completed 1916
General Post Office, Hobart. Completed 1905
Federation period (c. 1890–c. 1915)
12 styles, each style name prefaced by "Federation":
- Academic Classical, Free Classical, Filigree, Anglo-Dutch, Romanesque, Gothic, Carpenter Gothic, Warehouse, Queen Anne, Free Style, Arts and Crafts, Bungalow
Federation Academic Classical
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, completed 1910
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, completed 1906
Newcastle Post Office, completed 1903
Federation Free Classical
Notable examples include: Sydney Hospital (Sydney), Taronga Zoo Pavilion (Sydney), the main terminus building of the Central railway station in Sydney,[66] Flinders Street station (Melbourne), Sacred Heart Church (St Kilda, Victoria), Read's Emporium (Prahran, Victoria), Old Royal Hotel (Williamstown, Victoria), the former Queensland Lands Administration Building (Brisbane).
Flinders Street station, Melbourne, completed 1910
Former Read's Emporium, Prahran, completed 1914
Old Royal Hotel, Williamstown, with arts and crafts influences
Sacred Heart Church, St Kilda, completed 1891
Former Lands Administration Building, Brisbane, completed 1905
Sydney Hospital, completed 1894
Queen Victoria Hospital, completed 1912
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Building, completed 1896
Central railway station, Sydney. Completed 1906
Former Parcels Post Office, Railway Square, Sydney. Completed 1913
Marcus Clarke Building (TAFE), Railway Square, Sydney. Completed 1910-1924
Taronga Zoo Sydney. Completed 1916
Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital, Concord, New South Wales. Completed 1893
Federation Second Empire
Former Records Office. Queen Street, Melbourne. Completed 1900.
Town Hall Administration Buildings. Swanston Street, Melbourne. Completed 1908.
Federation Filigree

Brass Monkey Hotel, Perth, Western Australia; built 1896.[69]

P&O Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia. Completed 1901
Buchanan's Hotel, Townsville. Built 1902, demolished 1984. Three-tiered filigree in cast iron, wrought iron, timber and glass.[72]
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Federation Anglo-Dutch
The ASN Co building, Sydney a very early and rare pre-Federation version of the style; completed in 1885
City of Melbourne buildings, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, a very early example of the style; completed in 1888
University of Melbourne main buildings, Carlton; completed in 1888
Prahran Market, Prahran; completed in 1891, early Anglo-Dutch
St Nicholas Hospital buildings, Carlton
Eastern Hill Fire Station, East Melbourne; completed in 1893
Winfield Building, Collins Street, Melbourne, also demonstrates Queen Anne traits; completed in 1891
Perseverance Hotel, Fitzroy
Corporation Building, Haymarket, Sydney. Completed 1893[82]
Crown Hotel, Sydney. Completed 1909


Chamberlain Hotel, Sydney. Completed 1904
The Trocadero, Newtown, Sydney. Completed 1889[86]
York Hotel, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Completed 1901
Federation Romanesque
Sydney Technical College (Former Sydney Technical High School building). Completed 1891

Bairnsdale Court House, Bairnsdale; completed in 1893.[89]350_George_Street-3.jpg.webp)
Queen Victoria Building, Sydney; completed in 1898.[91]
Perth Mint, Perth, completed in 1899
Shelbourne Hotel, Sydney. Completed 1902
354 George Street (Former Bank of Australasia), Sydney, Completed 1904
Hackett Hall, Perth; completed 1908, now part of the Western Australian Museum
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Bairnsdale; completed in 1913
Former Melbourne Magistrates' Court, Melbourne Victoria. Completed 1914.[92]
Federation Gothic
Camperdown Memorial Clock Tower in Camperdown, Victoria; completed in 1897
Sacred Heart Cathedral in Bendigo, Victoria; completed in 1896
RMIT Building 4, Swanston Street, Melbourne; completed in 1904
Registrar-General's building, in Sydney; completed in 1913
MacLaurin Hall, University of Sydney. Completed 1902-1909
Saints Mary and Joseph Cathedral; Armidale, New South Wales. Completed 1912
A.C Goode House in Collins Street, Melbourne; completed in 1891
Federation Carpenter Gothic
Coonamble Anglican Church, New South Wales
St Mary's Church, Townsville, Queensland
The Uniting Church, Penguin, Tasmania. Completed 1903
Federation Warehouse
The Big Store, Prahran, Victoria; completed 1902.
Former David Cohen & Co. warehouse, Newcastle, New South Wales. Built 1901.[95]Edwards_Dunlop_building_Kent_Street_Sydney.jpg.webp)
Former Farmers and Graziers Building, Ultimo, New South Wales. Built from 1895.[97]
Federation Queen Anne
The Austral Buildings, Collins Street, Melbourne; completed in 1891
Professional Chambers, Collins Street, Melbourne; completed in 1908
The Sydney Corn Exchange, a rare remaining warehouse; built from 1887 and designed by George McRae[98]
Grace Brothers Department Store, Broadway, Sydney. Completed 1923
St Augustine's Church, Balmain, New South Wales. Completed 1905
Federation Free Style


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Fire station, Pyrmont, New South Wales. Completed 1906; architect, Walter Liberty Vernon.
Post office, Fremantle, Western Australia. Completed 1907; architect, Hilson Beasley. Alternating bands of red brick and pale stucco dominate the facade.[101]
Observer Hotel, The Rocks, Sydney. Completed 1908; architects, Halligan & Wilton.
Provincial Hotel, Ballarat, Victoria; completed in 1909; architect, Percy Richards. A fanciful freestyle composition with moorish and art nouveau elements.[103]
Darlinghurst Fire Station, Darlinghurst, New South Wales. Completed 1912; architect, Walter Liberty Vernon.[104]
Chamber of Commerce Building, The Rocks, New South Wales. Completed 1912; architect, Walter Liberty Vernon.
St Marys Catholic Church, Erskineville, New South Wales. Built c. 1912; architect, J. McCarthy. An uninhibited reinterpretation of the Gothic style.St_Patricks_Hall_and_School-4.jpg.webp)



The Examiner building, Launceston, Tasmania.[108]
Federation Arts and Crafts


Fire station, Leichhardt, New South Wales. Completed 1906; architect, E.L Drew.
Former Post & Telegraph Offices, Windsor, Victoria
The Jenolan Caves House, New South Wales
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Inter-War period (c. 1915–'c. 1940)
16 styles, each style name prefaced by "Inter-War":
- Georgian Revival, Academic Classical, Free Classical, Beaux-Arts, Stripped Classical, Commercial Palazzo, Mediterranean, Spanish Mission, Chicagoesque, Functionalist & Modern, Art-Deco, Skyscraper Gothic, Romanesque, Interwar Gothic, Old English, California Bungalow
Inter-war Georgian Revival
Albert Hall, Canberra, opened 1928
Elizabeth Murdoch Building, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Manly Town Hall, New South Wales
Queanbeyan City Council Chambers, Queanbeyan, New South Wales. Completed 1927; architect, J. W. Sproule.[111]
Inter-war Academic Classical
Brisbane City Hall; opened in 1930
Shrine of Remembrance, Brisbane; completed in 1930
Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne; completed in 1934
Inter-war Free Classical
CML Building, Geelong; completed in 1923
Former Sydney Morning Herald building, Pitt Street, Sydney. Completed 1920s
Publlic Trust Office, Sydney. Completed 1926
Inter-war Beaux Arts
Former Melbourne Mail Exchange, Bourke Street, Melbourne; completed in 1917
Former Port Authority Building, Market Street, Melbourne
National Theatre. St Kilda, Victoria; completed 1920
Herald and Weekly Times Building, Flinders Street, Melbourne
Argus Building. LaTrobe Street, Melbourne; completed 1927. Features large giant order columns with Egyptian decorative motifs
General Post Office, Perth, Western Australia; completed 1923
Commonwealth Bank building, Forrest Place, Perth, Western Australia; completed 1933
Commonwealth Bank building, Martin Place, Sydney. Completed 1928
Perpetual Trustee building, Sydney. Completed 1917
Beaux Arts Style office block, Sydney
Banking House, Sydney. Completed 1912
Beaux Arts style commercial building in Broadway, Sydney
Inter-war Stripped Classical
Old Parliament House, Canberra, designed by John Smith Murdoch; opened 1927
T&G building in Geelong, Victoria; opened 1933
Wyvern House, Newington College; opened 1938
AMP building in Albury, New South Wales
Petersham Town Hall, New South Wales; designed in 1938
Rockdale Town Hall, New South Wales; designed in 1940
Inter-war Commercial Palazzo
Westpac Bank building. 33 Queen Street, Brisbane; completed 1920
London Stores. Elizabeth Street, Melbourne; completed 1922
Myer Melbourne main store, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne; completed 1933
MacArthur Central. cnr Queen and Edward Streets, Brisbane; completed 1934
Dymocks Building, George Street, Sydney
Commercial Banking Company, George Street, Sydney. Completed 1920s
Trust Building; Sydney. Completed 1916
Gowings Building, Sydney. Completed 1929
Commonwealth Trading Bank building, Sydney. Completed 1916
Temple Court Building, Melbourne
Nicholas Building. Swanston Street, Melbourne; completed 1925
Former AMP Building. Collins Street, Melbourne; completed 1927
Inter-war Mediterranean
Sydney and Melbourne buildings, City Centre, Australian Capital Territory; commenced building 1920s
St Kilda Sea Baths. St Kilda, Victoria
Markets, West End, Queensland
Inter-war Art Deco
Australian War Memorial; building completed 1941; Byzantine architecture style with strong styling elements of art deco throughout
Palais Theatre, Melbourne; completed 1927; Strong Byzantine influences
Elmslea Chambers, Goulburn, New South Wales; built 1933; it was one of the first buildings in Australia to use Glazed architectural terra-cotta in its façade
Forgan Smith Buildings and Great Court, University of Queensland; completed 1927
ANZAC War Memorial, Sydney; completed 1934.
Art Deco office building. Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. Obvious influences of North American skyscraper planning
Alkira House, Queen Street, Melbourne. One of the most striking Glazed architectural terra-cotta and glass brick clad Art Deco buildings in Australia
Gledden Building, Perth; completed in 1935. The Gledden Building was the only large commercial building in the Art Deco style ever built in Western Australia.jpg.webp)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Completed 1940s
APA Building Martin Place, Sydney
State Theatre (Sydney). Competed 1929
City Mutual Life Assurance Building, Sydney. Completed 1936
Henry Davis York Building, Sydney.
Railway House, York Street, Sydney
Challis House, Martin Place, Sydney. Completed 1938
David Jones Building, Elizabeth Street, Sydney
Federation Skyscraper Gothic
Victoria Hotel on Little Collins Street, Melbourne
Grace Building, Sydney
Former Sun building
Former Sun building, Elizabeth Street, Sydney
Manchester Unity Building. Collins Street, Melbourne
Inter-war Chicagoesque
Capitol Theatre, Swanston Street, Melbourne; opened in 1924
Former Masonic Club, Flinders Street, Melbourne
Love and Lewis building. Prahran, Victoria; completed in 1928
Perth}}, Western Australia; completed 1927
Metropolitan Water Sewerage & Drainage Board Building Pitt Street, Sydney. 1939
Dovers Building, by Hugh Ralston Crawford; completed 1908
- Ballarat House, Wentworth Avenue, Surry Hills; 1915[113]
- Former Cleveland Shoe Company Factory, Victoria Street, Erskineville; 1923[114]
- Former Wrigley's Factory, Crewe Place, Rosebery; 1919[115]
Inter-war Functionalist & Moderne
Lonsdale House, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne; architect IG Anderson; completed 1937; demolished 2010
Presgrave Building, Little Collins Street, Melbourne; completed 1938
Former Victoria carpark, Little Collins Street, Melbourne; completed 1939; Melbourne's oldest multi-storey carpark in the streamline moderne style
Hastings Deering, Crown Street, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales; Architects Lipson & Kaad; completed 1938; refurbished 2013
Mitchell House, a 1937 Streamline Moderne style building built in 1937 Melbourne
Interwar Gothic
Newman College, Melbourne; opened 1918
Montsalvat artists colony (Great Hall), Eltham, Victoria; re-uses architectural elements from demolished Collins Street buildings; completed 1938
Inter-war Old English (20th Century Tudorbethan)
Shopfront in Toorak, Victoria
A mock Tudor row on Commercial Road, South Yarra, Victoria
Old English style shops, Lindfield, New South Wales.
Old English shops, Elsternwick, Victoria.
Inter-War Functionalist & Moderne
The functionalist and moderne style often used combinations of blonde and brown bricks in linear vertical or horizontal patterns. Notable examples include: Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney); Captain's Flat Hotel (NSW); Russell Street Police Headquarters (Melbourne); Astor Theatre (St Kilda, Victoria); Ballarat Law Courts (Ballarat);
Hotel at Captains Flat, New South Wales built 1938; Functionalist
Heidelberg Town Hall, Heidelberg, Victoria; built 1937; a fine example of interwar brick moderne
The Astor Theatre, St Kilda, Victoria; built 1937
Law Courts, Ballarat, Victoria
Former Police Headquarters, Russell Street, Melbourne; built 1940; an example of interwar brick moderne heavily influenced by North American skyscrapers
Post-War Period (c. 1940–1960)
5 styles, each style name prefaced by "Post-War":
- Ecclesiastical, International, Modern
Ecclesiastical
St Marys Anglican Church, South Perth, Western Australia built 1957
International Style


Lennon's Hotel, Broadbeach, Queensland. Built 1957.[120]
ICI House, East Melbourne, Victoria; Completed 1958. Early curtain wall glass building and tallest in Australia when completed.[121]
Modern
Late Twentieth-Century Period 1960–2000
14 styles, each style name prefaced by "Late Twentieth Century":
- Stripped Classical, Ecclesiastical, International, Organic, Brutalist, Structuralist, Late Modern, Post Modern, Immigrants' Nostalgic
Stripped Classical




Dallas Brooks Hall, East Melbourne, Victoria; completed 1969.
International
Australia Square, Sydney. Completed 1967. Australia's first true modern skyscraper.
Optus Centre, Melbourne. Completed 1975.
MLC Centre, Sydney. Completed 1977.
Edmund Barton Building, Canberra. Completed 1974
Organic
Parliament House, Canberra. A mixture of Organic and contemporary stripped classical elements. Completed 1988.
Brutalist
Notable examples include: Sydney Masonic Centre/Civic Tower (Sydney); Suncorp Place (Sydney); Sydney Law School (Sydney); Cameron Offices (Canberra); High Court of Australia (Canberra); State Library of Queensland (Brisbane); Queensland Performing Arts Centre (Brisbane); Law Courts (Brisbane); Suncorp Plaza (Brisbane); National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne); Total carpark (Melbourne); WTC Wharf; Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre (Malvern, Victoria); St Kilda Public Library (St Kilda, Victoria); Plumbing Trades Employees Union of Australia Building (Melbourne); University of Melbourne Faculty of Engineering (Melbourne); Metropolitan Fire Brigade (East Melbourne, Victoria); R.A.W. Woodgate Centre (Kew, Victoria); UTS Tower (University of Technology, Sydney); St Anthony's Church (Marsfield, Sydney). See Category:Brutalist architecture in Australia.
High Court of Australia. Canberra, completed in 1980
Queensland Performing Arts Complex, South Brisbane, completed 1985
Suncorp Place, Sydney, completed 1982
Law Courts. Brisbane, completed 1976-77
10 Murray Street. Hobart, completed 1969
Public Transport Centre, Perth, completed 1976
Perth Concert Hall, completed 1973
Structuralist
Sydney Opera House is often difficult to classify. Completed 1973.
The Australian Academy of Science building, named the "Shine Dome", Canberra, designed by Roy Grounds, completed 1959
Sidney Myer Music Bowl. Melbourne. Completed 1959. One of the earliest examples of a tensile structure
Lexus Centre (former Olympic Pool). Melbourne. Completed 1956.
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. Completed 1995. Complex load bearing hyperbolic paraboloid roof design, a precursor to 21st Century structuralism.
Late Modern

200 Queen Street. Melbourne. Completed in 1983. Curved mirror glass skyscraper.
Rialto Towers, Melbourne; completed 1986. Australia's best example of a mirror glass corporate skyscraper
Waterfront Place, Brisbane. Completed 1989.
Governor Phillip Tower, Sydney. Completed 1994.
Deutsche Bank Place, Sydney. Completed in 2005, a more recent example of the late modern style
Post Modern
A subset of postmodernism is mock-historicism tries to imitate historic styles using modern materials to the point where it is difficult to tell them apart from historic buildings. The most imitated styles are those that are easiest to clone (including the Georgian style).
Paddy's Markets redevelopment (completed 1976). Haymarket, New South Wales. Tower is reflective of the building style
The Jam Factory redevelopment (completed 1979). Chapel Street, South Yarra, Victoria. Completed in 1979. Feature mock historical elements juxtaposted with old factory
Former Australian Stock Exchange (completed 1990). Collins Street, Melbourne. Features a classical inspired podium base and Georgian inspired pyramid roof.
120 Collins Street (completed 1991). Collins Street, Melbourne. Evocative of an interwarNorth American skyscraper.
Chifley Tower (completed 1992). Sydney. Inspired by interwar North American skyscraper
Hotel Grand Chancellor (completed 1993). Launceston, Tasmania. Mock historic composition of Georgian and Second Empire styles.
RMIT Building 8 (completed 1993). Swanston Street, Melbourne. Uses novel decorative elements and references to pop-culture.
Boundary Street retail buildings (completed 1999). West End, Queensland. A cartoonish take on Victorian Mannerism.
Westin Hotel (completed 2000). Collins Street, Melbourne. Evocative of the Second Empire.
Apartments (completed 2001). Port Melbourne, Victoria evocative of the Second Empire.
Aurora Place, Sydney. Completed 2000
HSBC Building, George Street, Sydney. Completed 1987
Deconstructivist
Notable examples include Green Building RMIT; Deakin University main building; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art; Gottlieb House (Melbourne)
Storey Hall (The Green Building). RMIT. Swanston Street, Melbourne. Completed 1994. One of the earliest examples of Deconstructivist design in Australia.
450 Swan Street. Completed 1995. Deconstructivist form integrates an old bank with new offices.
Immigrant's Nostalgic
St Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church, Kingsford, New South Wales. Completed in 1975
Auburn Gallipoli Mosque, Auburn, New South Wales. Completed in 1999
21st-century architecture
Several new and continued 20th-century styles, all prefaced with "21st-century" - Deconstructivist, Post modern, Structuralist, Sustainable, Modern
Deconstructivist
Notable examples include Fed Square; Shrine of Remembrance crypt; Sofo House (Melbourne) Swan Bells (Perth)
Swan Bells. Perth. Completed in 2000.
Federation Square. Melbourne. Completed 2002.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Southbank, Victoria. Completed 2002
Post Modern
National Museum of Australia. Completed 2001.
Port 1010 building at the Digital Harbour precinct, Melbourne Docklands. Completed 2008.
Perth Arena. Completed 2012.
Structuralist
Advanced structuralism facilitated by Computer Aided Design
Docklands Stadium. Melbourne; completed 2000.
Southern Cross station, Melbourne; completed 2006.
Carousel Pavilion, Geelong; completed 2006.
ANZ Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park. Completed 1999
Olympic Park railway station, Sydney. Competed 1998
Sustainable
Notable examples in Australia include: 60L (Melbourne); CH2 (Melbourne); K2 Apartments (Windsor, Victoria); Dunc Gray Velodrome (Sydney); Forest EcoCentre (Tasmania); Rozak House (Noonamah, Northern Territory).
K2 Apartments. Windsor, Victoria. Completed 2006. Highly visible solar panels, prominent natural ventilators and use of natural materials.
Council House 2. Little Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 2006. World's first 6 star green rating building features louvered facade, natural and recycled materials, solar panels and thermal mass cooling.
Dunc Gray Veledrome. Sydney, New South Wales
Green building
Modern
Brisbane Square. Brisbane; completed 2006.
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. Brisbane; completed 2008.
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200 George Street, Sydney, 2016
World Square, Sydney. 2005
International Convention Centre Sydney. Completed 2017
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