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Australian-New Zealand Banking Group Tower, also Time and Place mural, 23-65 Collins Street, Melbourne

Butler, Graeme1985

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Creator:

Butler, Graeme (Name details)

Date of work:

1985

Reference number:

BIF-CITY 102060

Level of description:

Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)

Type of materials:

Graphic materialsTextual material

Part of:

Series: Central City (BIF-CITY)

Access restrictions:

UnrestrictedOpen access.

Use restrictions:

UnrestrictedPlease contact City of Melbourne Libraries about obtaining permission to reproduce images.

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ASSOCIATED RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER:.GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM - noted as significant current architecture outsider of the survey date focus..CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONindex (many cards) Bourke St - Elizabeth St 54/119917-65 Collins StJuly 1972 43069 $4 million site excavation etcJuly 1972 43087 $23 million Collins Tower DevelopmentJuly 1972 43109 $15.75 million ANZ Toweretcalso list of Building Rererees awards 49/1199.WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2021https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_PlaceCollins Place is a large mixed-use complex in the CBD of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Designed in about 1970 by I.M.Pei and Partners, and finally completed in 1981, it was Melbourne's first and Australia's largest mixed use project, including basement car-parking, a shopping plaza with professional suites, cinemas and a nightclub in the lower levels, and offices and a high-rise hotel in a pair of towers (35 and 55 Collins Street) above..….The development of the project began with the purchase of a number of old buildings in the 'Paris End' of Collins Street by the ANZ Bank in the late 1960s. They acted on the advice of the Montreal-based American Vincent Ponte[1] to join with adjacent land owners to develop an ambitious multi-use complex, similar to those developed in North America in the 1960s. The Bank joined with the AMP Society and Mainline Corporation to amalgamate a site of nearly a whole city block, and commissioned a design from the New York firm of Architects, I. M. Pei and Partners and the Melbourne firm of Bates, Smart and McCutcheon as associate architects in about 1970.[2][3]The construction of Collins Place took far longer than anticipated due to the credit squeeze of the 1970s, the collapse of Mainline, and strike action by construction unions. It opened in two stages, the first being the ANZ Bank's office tower in 1978.[4] The hotel, named The Wentworth, and the shopping plaza, dubbed 'the Great Space', opened on the 18th May 1981, to great fanfare and a 7-page advertising spread in The Age.[5] The final cost was A$270 million.[6]cites:Mayne, Robert (20 June 1971). "He makes the big city heart throb faster". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 46. Retrieved 25 April 2011."Why we think Collins Place will be the best address in Australia". The Age. 22 August 1978. p. 6. Retrieved 25 April 2011.http://www.collinsplace.com.au/Day, Norman (10 October 1978). "New York lesson in merchandising". The Age. p. 2. Retrieved 25 April 2011."Curtain up on an Extravaganza". The Age. 18 May 1981. Retrieved 13 June 2017.Robertson, Paul (22 May 1981). "AMP axes investment in Victoria". The Age. p. 5. Retrieved 25 April 2011."Reeling in the years: Beloved Kino cinema still going strong at 30". 13 June 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017.https://www.palacecinemas.com.au/cinemas/kino/O'Hanlon, Seamus (2010). Melbourne Remade. Melbourne: Arcade Publications."Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2009..SKYSCRAPERCENTER WEB SITE 2020https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/anz-tower-collins-place/2136Height: Architectural 188 m / 617 ftHeight: To Tip 188 m / 617 ftFloors Above Ground 46Tower GFA 193,000 m² / 2,077,435 ft²Official Name ANZ Tower - Collins PlaceName of Complex Collins PlaceStructure Type BuildingStatus CompletedCountry AustraliaCity MelbourneStreet Address & Map 55 Collins StreetPostal Code 3000Building Function officeStructural Material compositeProposed 1970Construction Start 1973Completion 1978.Regional Ranking #46 Tallest in OceaniaNational Ranking #46 Tallest in AustraliaCity Ranking #22 Tallest in MelbourneCompanies InvolvedOwner Australian-New Zealand Banking Groups, Ltd. (ANZ; Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP)Architect• Design I.M. Pei & Partners• Architect of Record Bates Smart & McCutcheonStructural Engineer• Design John Connell and Associates; Weiskopf & Pickworth.NATIONAL TRUST OF AUSTRALIA (VIC)Classification 6522"Time and Place" muralNAME OF ARTISTJohn Firth-Smith(classification report extract)STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCEThe mural "Time and Place" is significant at the State level as a work by an artist of considerable standing, as one of the remarkably few contemporary murals in Melbourne, and as one of the largest murals in Australia. The outstanding success of "Time and Place" is its unity within the architectural space it has been placed in. It dominates because of its size, yet beautifully complements the stark architecture surrounding it. The hard, sharp lines of the building find an excellent foil in Firth-Smith's softly-muted rusted reds and gun-metal greys. The mural also demonstrates the artist's private development as a painter and the logical progression of his ideas, and expresses a spontaneous vivacity typical of the athletic, muscular energy with which Firth-Smith delivers his painting.HISTORY OF THE WORKIn 1997, I M Pei & partners, the renowned New York-based architects who designed Collins Place, recommended to the ANZ board that a major work of art should be commissioned for the first floor reception hall of Collins Place Branch The recommendation was for a work of contemporary Australian art to occupy all or part of the two principal walls enclosing the reception hall. The challenge to the artist was not only to animate the large wall surfaces (each is 24m long and 6m high), but equally to animate the whole ~ace. The bank agreed with Pei's recommendation and in 1978 appointed a judging pane~ chaired by Mr Michael Shannon of Melbourne, deputy chairman of the Visual Arts Board. The panel invited thirteen Australian artists, whose work covered a range of disciplines, to make submissions. In July 1979 the commission was awarded to John Firth-Smith. In early 1980, the artist began working on the project in space rented by the bank in the Sydney factory of Ralph Symonds Ltd. Symonds made the plywood panels for the painting, using a special pressing process. The precise jointing of the panels was done by Peter F Danby Ply Ltd of Melbourne. The painting was completed in November 1981 and transported by truck, on a specially built frame, to Melbourne.

Names:

City of Melbourne

Topics:

Central Activities District Conservation Study 1985Conservation studiesBanks

Places:

Melbourne (Vic.)

Form/Genre:

Building Identification Forms (BIFs)

Record types:

Research and reports

Record number:

1191683