Shell House: 1 Spring Street, MELBOURNE

Building Profile

Location

Construction Details

Built in the Eighties period in the Modern style

Notable features

Sydney architect Harry Seidlers only Melbourne office building so far is without a doubt the ugliest horror constructed in the city. It is abject to all of Melbournes standards of taste, presents sheer blank concrete walls, throws blatant curves on the sacred grid and pollutes the streetscape with awful eighties abstract sculpture in an uninspiring and unwanted corner plaza. The building uses sunshades and a variety of other features including an exposed service core which make it an aesthetic abomination from all angles. This building belongs in Sydney or Brisbane, and should be demolished without reservation as it is an insult to and a scar amd scurge on the skyline of the city of Melbourne. This building is so bad that even its builders, Shell, have abandoned their headquarters. Why it was awarded an RAIA medal for design is beyond any rational person.

History

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