pieces of dreams

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Walter Burley Griffin, the architect who designed Canberra's layout and central buidlings, also gave Melbourne the wonderful Capitol Theatre. In the 70's some idiots gutted the main auditorium, created a smaller cinema  and saved the fabulous cubist-inspired ceiling which can be lit in kaleidoscopic splendour. It is rarely seen now. I spotted some details in the entrance off Swanston.

Here are a couple of grabs from Google of the interior
Before the remodeling

The space now

The outside in the forties

And now