333 Collins Street

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Business building
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Lobby
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Above is the banking chamber of the former Commercial Bank of Australia, designed by Lloyd Tayler and Alfred Dunn in 1891.  

Collins Street, in many ways the heart of the Melbourne, is well worth walking from one end to the other as it combines classic Victorian business architecture (the Old Treasury Building is an excellent example of Renaissance Revival architectural style) and modern skyscrapers (the Rialto Building). At the eastern end it is predominantly fashion shops (a kind of Victorian equivalent of 5th Avenue or, as some people would have it, the 'Paris' end of the street) and at the western end it is the business center of the city. 


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