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Myer Department Store pedestrian bridge, 290 Little Bourke Street

Butler, Graeme1985
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Title:
Myer Department Store pedestrian bridge, 290 Little Bourke Street
Creator:
Butler, Graeme (Name details)
Date of work:
1985
Reference number:
BIF-CITY 101194 3
Level of description:
Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)
Type of materials:
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Series: Central City (BIF-CITY)
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Period: Post-WarConstruction date: 1962-3Notable features: transparency and bridge concept epitomise era - first public crossing (aerial), thought at the time to be the first of manyASSOCIATED RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER:.CROSS-SECTIONApril 1963`This four storey pedestrian bridge over Post Office Place links the Myer Emporium (Melb) Bourke and Lonsdale Street Stores. Construction is steel, r. conc. encased; with floor panels of precast conc, and a curtain wall which is literally a curtain in that it is suspended from the roof. Tompkins, Shaw & Evans, archts; H.F. Yuncken Pty. Ltd., bldrs.This is the first structure over a public thoroughfare to be approved by the Melb City Council. Myer's will pay a yearly fee for a "stratum licence." The separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic that this bridge achieves should of course be a commonplace necessity in the transport jungle of our cities. Cost is the usual argument put forward against such proposals. It is good to have it proved in at least one example, for at least one store, that the free travel of walkers above street level is commercially expedient. '.Emporium MelbourneFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emporium_Melbourne...In 1962, a pedestrian bridge was constructed between first, second and third storeys[5] of the Bourke Street and Lonsdale Street buildings....A second footbridge from levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 also connects directly to the David Jones store which occupies the property next to Myer between Bourke and Little Bourke streets.[1]
Related material link:
Robertson & Moffat furnishings warehouse (290-292), 290-316 Little Bourke Street Melbourne (BIF-CITY 105698\\)
Names:
City of Melbourne
Topics:
Central Activities District Conservation Study 1985Conservation studiesPostwar periodThoroughfares1960-1969
Places:
Melbourne (Vic.)
Form/Genre:
Building Identification Forms (BIFs)
Record types:
Research and reports
Record number:
1189026
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