Royal Exhibition Building

* This name is listed on the World Heritage List. ª The region is classified by UNESCO.

The Royal Exhibition Building is an exhibition building in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne ( Australia). It served, inter alia, for the Melbourne International Exhibition, which took place from 1 October 1880 to 30 April 1881. The building and Carlton Gardens were registered on 20 July 2004 in the Australian National Heritage List since 2004 and are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Building

The building complex was 1880, the largest building in Australia.

The building is very important as a typical example of the international exhibition movement of 1851-1915 to part.

Architecture

The Royal Exhibition Building was built by the architect Joseph Reed Victorian style. He was influenced by the Byzantine and Romanesque architecture. The Italian Renaissance was flowing in the dome, which is very similar to the dome of the Duomo of Florence, with a.

The largest exhibition space at the Royal Exhibition Building is the 152 -meter-long Great Hall, which is preserved in the original, with 7000 square meters. The Gallery of the Great Hall on the first floor comprises 4500 m². Originally, the Great Hall but accounted for only one-tenth of the total exhibition space.