Arts Centre Melbourne

The spire of the Arts Centre Melbourne mimics the silhouette of a ballerina in a tutu. Beneath that steel frame sits a complex of theaters dug deep into the reclaimed swamp land of the Yarra River bank. When the builders started digging in the late nineteen sixties, they found the ground so unstable that they had to sink concrete piles nearly sixty meters down to reach bedrock. The structure serves as the primary home for the city's opera, ballet, and symphony companies.