From Roy Grounds’ bunker-like design of Arts Centre Melbourne’s Theatres Building and Hamer Hall (as well as the neighbouring National Gallery of Victoria) to Robin Gibson’s iconic brutalist design for Queensland Performing Arts Centre, for many decades arts venues have often turned their backs to the world.
In recent years this architectural trend has been reversed, resulting in buildings such as the redeveloped Wodonga Library and Gallery (a collaboration between JWP Architects and Architect Marshall, completed in August 2021) where passersby can look directly inside the library.
