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Melbourne Retail Core - L3 1x3 HC Buckley and Nunns Department Store

A L3 HC department store features as part of a series creating a retail core for your city, based on buildings in Melbourne, Australia


" The Buckley and Nunns Men's Store was designed by local architects Bates, Smart & McCutcheon. The Moderne or art-deco-style building was constructed in 1933-1934. It was considered an architectural triumph and won the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects' Street Architecture Medal in 1934, being "a distinct departure from the traditional and thus exemplary of the modern trend in design". It was decorated with male bas-relief figures in jazz-age costume, glazed terracotta panels and spandrels faced with stainless-steel chevrons and colourful musical-note symbols. The National Trust has described the lift cars and lobbies as "unequalled in Victoria as examples of the European 'Art Deco' geometric forms which dominated decorative art in the 1930s"