July 2022
Proposed office tower behind the Comedy Theatre – looks like half is on a separate site (now a carpark) and half perhaps over the back stage, partly cantilevered structurally. That part actually on the Comedy site has to be approved by #HeritageVictoria, so there’s a long process. They might not like it, but if it actually improves the operational facilities like they say it will, then I think it’s ok. Already surrounded by towers. The theatre is a rather splendid Spanish design from 1928 by Albion Walkley and Charles Neville Hollinshed, who were clearly influenced by the Broadway Theatres in similar style of the 1910s and 20s, many by Herbert J Krapp. Melbourne’s only historic theatre designed for intimate pieces rather than musicals.
Storey of Melbourne 