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The following lists events that happened during 1900 in Australia.
Melbourne Central is a large shopping centre, office, and public transport hub in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, and opened in 1991.
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ARM Architecture or Ashton Raggatt McDougall is an architectural firm with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, Australia. The firm was founded in Melbourne in 1988 and has completed nationally and internationally renowned design work. ARM's founding directors were Stephen Ashton, Howard Raggatt, Ian McDougall.
Storey Hall, located at 342–344 Swanston Street in Melbourne, Australia, is part of the RMIT City campus of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. It consists of a grand meeting hall constructed in 1887, extended and renovated in 1996, providing a large upper hall, the lower hall as home to RMIT Gallery First Site, and a range of lecture theatres and seminar rooms.
Hamer Hall is a 2,466 seat concert hall, the largest indoor venue at Arts Centre Melbourne, used for orchestra and contemporary music performances. It was designed by Roy Grounds as part of the Cultural Centre that comprised the National Gallery of Victoria and the Arts Centre Melbourne. It was opened as the "Melbourne Concert Hall" in 1982 and was renamed Hamer Hall in honour of Rupert Hamer shortly after his death in 2004.
The Hervey Range is a large mountain range about 39 kilometres (24 mi) north of Townsville, in Queensland, Australia. It is one of the highest peaks in the Townsville region and is also the location of the Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms. The highest point of the range is Mount Cataract, which is 709 metres (2,326 ft) high.
Mount Maslen is a mountain, 1,200 metres (4,000 ft) high, standing 1 nautical mile (2 km) west of Mount Currie in the Raggatt Mountains of Enderby Land, Antarctica. It was plotted from air photos taken from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions aircraft in 1956 and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for A.W.G. Maslen, the officer-in-charge at Mawson Station in 1961.
Mount Humble is, at 1,450 metres (4,760 ft), the highest mountain in the Raggatt Mountains of Antarctica, standing 16 miles (26 km) south of the isolated mountain Mount Sibiryakov. It was plotted from air photos taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for John Edmund Humble, a cosmic ray physicist at Mawson Station in 1960.
Thyer Glacier is a tributary glacier, flowing northwest along the south side of the Raggatt Mountains to enter the Rayner Glacier. Mapped from ANARE air photos taken by the RAAF flight in 1956. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for R.F. Thyer, chief geophysicist, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Australian Department of National Development and Energy.
Raggatt Mountains is a group of peaks westward from the Scott Mountains, lying east of Rayner Glacier and north of Thyer Glacier. Delineated by ANARE from air photos taken by RAAF Antarctic Flight of 1956. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for Dr. H.G. Raggatt, Secretary of the Australian Dept. of National Development.
St Kilda Library is a public library in Melbourne, Australia. The library is located in the suburb of St Kilda, in the City of Port Philip. The building was recognised by the Australian Institute of Architects as one of the “notable public buildings” designed by award-winning architect Enrico Taglietti.
Ian Lachlan McDougall is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Adelaide and a founding director of the Australian architecture firm Ashton Raggatt McDougall or ARM Architecture. His most significant projects include Melbourne Recital Centre and Melbourne Theatre Company's Southbank Theatre, Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, masterplanning of Melbourne Docklands, Albury Library Museum and the Shrine of Remembrance Visitors Centre in Melbourne.
Albury Library Museum is a combined library and museum in Albury, New South Wales, Australia. Designed by Ashton Raggatt McDougall it was opened in 2007. In the first year of its operation the building had 226,000 visitors, of which 80,000 entered the exhibition space. The library has 50,000 books, magazines and electronic media items, and received 80,000 visitors in the first year of its operation, a 50% increase compared to the previous year. The building received the Australian Institute of Architects's National Award for Public Architecture.
Sir Harold George Raggatt was a senior Australian public servant and geologist, best known for his time as Secretary of the Department of National Development.
Southbank Theatre is a performing arts venue located in the Southbank region of Melbourne, Victoria. It is the principal home of the Melbourne Theatre Company. The theatre was designed by ARM Architecture, and opened in January 2009 with a production of Poor Boy starring Guy Pearce. The building was awarded the 2009 Victorian Architecture Medal, the highest award in the state.
Bethan Raggatt is a British sailor. She competed in the women's 470 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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