Australia

Royal Exhibition Building

A World Heritage site made for public spectacle In Carlton, just beyond Melbourne’s central business district, the Royal Exhibition Building rises from a formal garden landscape created for international exhibitions. The building and Carlton Gardens were designed for Melbourne’s 1880 International Exhibition and the 1888 Centennial International Exhibition. Together, they preserve a rare Australian example of the global exhibition movement, when cities used vast halls and landscaped grounds to present industry, design and national ambition…...