National Mutual Plaza: 447 Collins Street, MELBOURNE
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| Building ProfileName : National Mutual Plaza
LocationAddress: 447 Collins Street
City: MELBOURNE
Postcode: 3000
Construction DetailsBuilt: 1960 - 1965
Original use: Office
Current use: Office
Height
(to roof) : 93
(to pinnacle) : 93
number of floors : 24Built in the Sixties period in the Internationalist style
Notable featuresA bland and particularly bulky International styled building with vast wrap-around balconies cladded in a marble finish. One of Melbournes 1960s group of boxy towers, the National Mutual was built completely over the old Eastern Market site, making use of new plot ration rules to set back on a plaza of civic scale. A 3 level podium faces onto Flinders Lane, with an entrance to one of Melbournes earliest underground carparks. HistoryArchitect:
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