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Ici House, Spring Street Melbourne

by Sam Granleese on June 16, 2011

I love this building. More than almost any other in Melbourne.

Ici House, on Spring Street near Parliament House, was built in the late fifties and the first building to go above the twelve-story height limit imposed by the city at the time. It remains possibly the finest example of modern architecture in skyscraper-form in the city.

Proof that it is, on occasion, possible to reach perfection at first attempt.

Taken on my iPhone 4 using Instagram, 31st May 2011.

Tagged as: architecture, australia, melbourne, skyscraper

Oliver Palmer

It wasn't all perfection from the get go, however, as the when this building was first built they didn't construct the window frames to allow for the expansion and contraction of glass (is that right? Something like that...) and whole panes of glass were regularly popping and shattering on the street below.
Sam Granleese

Hey Oliver - yeah I've heard that too somewhere..

I guess it wasn't perfect to begin with after all!