Tappin, Gilbert and Dennehy designed Storey Hall in 1887. This refurbishment was designed by Ashton Raggatt McDougall for the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University and completed in 1995.
The $13.9 million project transformed the space into a vibrant art gallery with exterior Penrose tiles that represent building’s use as a meeting hall for Suffragettes. The design builds on the Classicist original with a Annexe building entrance through a grotto, and bright shades of green that suggest the Irish roots and environmentally sustainable future. The rigid angles in the architecture’s “drapery” suggest a “new geometry of chaos theories.”
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