Leviathan Building: 271 Bourke Street, MELBOURNE
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| Building ProfileName : Leviathan Building
Past Names : Leviathan StoresLocationAddress: 271 Bourke Street
City: MELBOURNE
Postcode: 3000
Leviathan Building is a landmark
Construction DetailsBuilt: 1912 - 1913
Original use: Commercial
Current use: Commercial
number of floors : 5Built in the Interwar period in the Beaux Arts style
Notable featuresAn elaborate arts and crafts building with art noveau, art-deco, mannerist, baroque and Chicagoesque motifs. The deep cornice is supported by fanciful scroll like eaves brakets giving the building an frivolous and delightful tone. The attic storey has a smaller cornice and expresses the vertical spandrels of the buildings construction by indenting the string course to show the main load bearing points of the frame. The parapet features art noveau sign writing. HistoryArchitect: Bates Peebles & Smart
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