The State Library of Victoria on Swanston Street in Melbourne and its Domed Reading Room.
[State Library of Victoria]
Behind the library is an apartment block and the headquarters of BHP-Billiton, world’s largest mining company.
[Saint George and the Dragon at the Library Forecourt]
[The Domed La Trobe Reading Room]
[La Trobe Reading Room Desks]
[La Trobe Reading Room Dome]
The library was renovated between 1999 and 2003. Before then the skylights were covered up as the roof was leaking. Without the Australian sun pouring in through the skylights the library had a more Gothic Northern European feel to it. Or maybe that’s just my memory of it when studying the in my school years.
[La Trobe Reading Book Shelves]
[La Trobe Reading Room Study Desks]
[Redmond Barry Reading Room]