Australian non-residential architectural styles

Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney. Old Colonial Georgian. Completed in 1819

The Windmill. Brisbane; 1828. Brisbane's oldest building

St James Old Cathedral. King Street, Melbourne; 1839-1849, relocated 1914. One of Melbourne's oldest surviving buildings

Sydney Mint. Sydney. Completed 1816. The oldest public building in Australia.

Former Government Stables. Sydney. Completed in 1821. Example of old colonial castellated Gothic picturesque.

Fremantle Prison built 1850-57

Court house, Albury, New South Wales, built 1860; Palladian-style

Old Government House. Brisbane. Completed 1862.

State Library of Victoria. Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria. Completed 1856.

Parliament House. Spring Street, Melbourne. Completed 1856.

Melbourne Trades Hall. Completed 1875.

Supreme Court of Victoria. Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria. Completed 1884. Features a large columned neo-classical dome.

Parliament House. Adelaide. Completed in 1889.

St Kilda Town Hall. St Kilda, Victoria. Completed 1890.

Former Hibernian Hall. Swanston Street, Melbourne. Completed 1887.

Former Baptist Church House. East Melbourne, Victoria. Completed 1863.

National Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia; built late 1800s

Railway station. Ballarat, Victoria; completed 1888;

Fremantle Town Hall. Fremantle, Western Australia;

Fitzroy Town Hall, Fitzroy, Victoria completed 1890.

Werribee Park Mansion. Werribee, Victoria; completed 1877;

Customs House. Brisbane. Completed 1889. This copper domed building is one of Australia's finest Free Classical buildings.

Sydney Trades Hall. Completed 1888.

Victoria Hotel. Albert Park, Victoria. Completed 1888.

The Regatta Hotel in Toowong, Queensland, present building constructed in 1886.

Reid's Coffee Palace. Ballarat, Victoria. Completed 1886.

The Sir William Wallace Hotel in Balmain, New South Wales completed 1879.

Former Mutual Store. Flinders Street, Melbourne. Completed 1891

Stalbridge Chambers. Little Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 1891.

Benvenuta. Carlton, Victoria. Completed 1893.

Former Prahran Arcade. Prahran, Victoria. Completed 1889. Grand interiors and exteriors even without its Second Empire styled mansard roof.

Lygon Buildings. Lygon Stret, Carlton, Victoria. Completed 1888.

Sydney Town Hall built 1869-89; Victorian Second Empire style

Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, completed 1880.

South Melbourne Town Hall, South Melbourne, Victoria completed 1880.

Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, Victoria completed 1883.

Princess Theatre. Melbourne, Victoria completed 1866.

Malvern Town Hall. Malvern, Victoria. Completed 1890

Former Rechabite Hall. Prahran, Victoria. Completed 1888.

Queensland Parliament. Brisbane. Completed 1868.

East Melbourne Synagogue. East Melbourne, Victoria. Completed 1877

Melbourne GPO. Completed 1887

Bendigo Post Office. Bendigo, Victoria. Completed 1892

Bendigo Court House. Bendigo, Victoria. Completed 1892

Shamrock Hotel. Bendigo, Victoria. Completed 1897

Railway station, Albury, New South Wales, built 1881;

Court house, Goulburn, New South Wales,built 1887;

Eynesbury House, Adelaide, South Australia

Glentworth House, Ashfield, New South Wales

St Michael's Uniting Church. Melbourne, Melbourne. Completed 1866.

St Paul's Cathedral. Melbourne

St Patrick's Cathedral. Melbourne

St Peter's Cathedral. Adelaide. Completed 1901.

Perth Town Hall. Completed 1870

Former Metropolitan Gas Company Buildings; Flinders Street, Melbourne. Completed 1892; Venetian Gothic applied to a tall building

Ormond College, Melbourne University. Completed 1881.

Former Stock Exchange. Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 1888.

Former Safe Deposit Building. Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 1890.

ANZ Bank, Collins Street Melbourne. Completed 1883

Old Rialto. Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 1888

Olderfleet Buildings. Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 1888

St George's Presbyterian Church. East St Kilda. Completed 1880

Government House. Sydney. Completed 1843.

Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne. Completed 1857.

Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney. Completed 1862.

Government House. Perth. Completed in 1864.

The Barracks Arch. Perth. Completed in 1863.

HM Prison Pentridge. Coburg, Victoria. Completed in 1864

Flinders Street Station, Melbourne. Completed 1910.

Former Read's Emporium. Prahran, Victoria. Free Classical. Completed 1914

Old Royal Hotel. Williamstown, Victoria. Free classical with arts and crafts influences.

Sydney Central Station. Surry Hills, New South Wales. Completed 1906.

Sacred Heart Church. St Kilda, Victoria. Completed 1891.

Sydney Hospital. Completed 1894.

Queen Victoria Hospital. Completed 1912.

Former Records Office. Queen Street, Melbourne. Completed 1900.

Town Hall Administration Buildings. Swanston Street, Melbourne. Completed 1908.

Salvation Army Building, Brisbane, Queensland

City of Melbourne Buildings. Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Completed 1888. A very early example of the style.

University of Melbourne main buildings. Carlton, Victoria. Completed 1888.

Prahran Market. Prahran, Victoria. Completed 1891. Early Anglo-Dutch.

St Nicholas Hospital buildings. Carlton, Victoria.

Eastern Hill Fire Station. East Melbourne, Victoria. Completed 1893.

Winfield Building. Collins Street, Melbourne. Also demonstrates Queen Anne traits. Completed 1891.

Perseverence Hotel. Fitzroy, Victoria.

Corporation Building, Hay Street, Sydney

Queen Victoria Building, Sydney. Completed 1898.

Our Lady of the Victories Basilica. Camberwell, Victoria. Completed in 1918.

Old Museum Building. Brisbane, Queensland. Completed 1891

Melbourne Magistrates' Court. Corner of La Trobe and Russell Streets, Melbourne. Completed in 1914

Perth Mint. Perth. Completed in 1899.

Fremantle Markets, Fremantle, Western Australia. Completed in 1902.

A.C Goode House. Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 1891.

Camperdown Memorial Clock Tower. Camperdown, Victoria. Completed 1897.

Sacred Heart Cathedral. Bendigo, Victoria. Built 1896.

RMIT Building 4, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Melbourne. Completed 1904.

The Uniting Church at Narooma, New South Wales built 1914

St Mary's Church, Townsville, Queensland

The Big Store. Prahran, Victoria. Completed 1902, an early and exuberant example of the style.

The Austral Buildings, Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 1891. Queen Anne style.

Professional Chambers. Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 1908. Queen Anne style

Former Mechanics Institute. Prahran, Victoria. Freestyle

Provincial Hotel. Ballarat, Victoria. Completed 1909. A fanciful freestyle composition with art nouveau elements

Dimmey's. Cremorne, Victoria

Canterbury Flats. St Kilda, Victoria built 1919; Free style. Demonstrates a variety of Federation style influences

City Baths, Melbourne

Former Post & Telegraph Offices. Windsor, Victoria.

Fire Station, Glebe, Sydney (designed by Walter Liberty Vernon)

Fire Station, Glebe, Sydney

Windows of the Albert Hall, Canberra, opened 1928;

Front of the Albert Hall;

Elizabeth Murdoch Building, Victorian College of the Arts. Melbourne

Shrine of Remembrance. Melbourne. Completed 1934.

Brisbane City Hall. Opened 1930.

Shrine of Remembrance. Brisbane. Completed 1930.

Former Melbourne Mail Exchange. Bourke Street, Melbourne

Former Port Authority Building. Market Street, Melbourne

National Theatre. St Kilda, Victoria. Completed 1920.

Herald Weekly Times Building. Flinders Street, Melbourne

Argus Building. LaTrobe Street, Melbourne. Completed 1927. Features large giant order columns with Egyptian decorative motifs

GPO building, Forrest Place, Perth. Completed 1923.

Commonwealth Bank building, Forrest Place, Perth. Completed 1933.

Old Parliament House, Canberra; opened 1927; Stripped Classical

AMP building in Albury, New South Wales; Stripped Classical

Myer Melbourne main store, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

London Stores. Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Completed 1922.

Nicholas Building. Swanston Street, Melbourne. Completed 1925.

Former AMP Building. Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 1927.

Temple Court. Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 1924.

Sydney and Melbourne buildings, City Centre, Australian Capital Territory; commenced building 1920s

St Kilda Sea Baths. St Kilda, Victoria

Forum Theatre. Flinders Street, Melbourne

Australian War Memorial; building completed 1941; Byzantine architecture style with strong styling elements of art deco throughout

Palais Theatre, Melbourne; completed 1927; Strong byzantine influences

Elmslea Chambers, Goulburn, New South Wales; built 1933; it was one of the first buildings in Australia to use Glazed architectural terra-cotta in its façade

Forgan Smith Buildings and Great Court. University of Queensland. Completed 1927.

ANZAC War Memorial. Sydney. Completed 1934.

Art Deco office building. Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. Shows obvious influences of the cascading silhouette of North American skyscrapers of the same period, but without the same zoning restrictions.

Alkira House. Queen Street, Melbourne. One of the most striking Glazed architectural terra-cotta and glass brick clad Art Deco buildings in Australia

Victoria Hotel on Little Collins Street, Melbourne

Capitol Theatre, opened 1924; Swanston Street, Melbourne

Former Masonic Club. Flinders Street, Melbourne

Powerhouse. Brisbane

Love and Lewis building. Prahran, Victoria. Completed 1928.

Presgrave Building. Little Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed in 1938.

Former Victoria carpark. Little Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed in 1939. Melbourne's oldest multi-storey carpark in the streamline moderne style.

Newman College, Melbourne (gallery) opened 1918

Montsalvat artists colony (Great Hall). Eltham, Victoria. Completed 1938.

1930s Mock Tudor facades on Commercial Road, South Yarra, Victoria

Hotel at Captains Flat, New South Wales built 1938; Functionalist

Heidelberg Town Hall, Heidelberg, Victoria; built 1937; a fine example of interwar brick moderne

Former Police Headquarters, Russell Street, Melbourne; built 1940; an example of interwar brick moderne heavily influenced by North American skyscrapers

The Astor Theatre, St Kilda, Victoria; built 1937

Law Courts, Ballarat, Victoria

St Marys Anglican Church, South Perth, Western Australia built 1957

ICI House. East Melbourne, Victoria; Completed 1958. Early curtain wall glass buildings and tallest in Australia when completed.

National Library of Australia, Canberra; completed 1964.

Dallas Brooks Hall, East Melbourne, Victoria; completed 1969.

Australia Square, Sydney. Completed 1967. An iconic office building.

Optus Centre, Melbourne. Completed 1975.

MLC Centre, Sydney. Completed 1977.

Parliament House, Canberra. A mixture of Organic and contemporary stripped classical elements. Completed 1988.

Cameron Offices, Belconnen; constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s;

High Court of Australia. Canberra. Completed in 1980.

National Gallery of Victoria. St Kilda Road, Melbourne. Completed in 1962.

Queensland Performing Arts Complex. South Brisbane, Queensland. Completed 1985

AAPT Centre (formerly QANTAS). Sydney. Completed 1982

Law Courts. Brisbane. Completed 197?

Sydney Opera House is often difficult to classify. Completed 1973.

The Australian Academy of Science building, named the "Shine Dome", Canberra, designed by Roy Grounds, completed 1959

Sidney Myer Music Bowl. Melbourne. Completed 1959. One of the earliest examples of a tensile structure

Lexus Centre (former Olympic Pool). Melbourne. Completed 1956.

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. Completed 1995. Complex load bearing hyperbolic paraboloid roof design, a precursor to 21st Century structuralism.

AMP Place. Brisbane. Completed in 1977. An early example of late modern curtain walled mirror glass skyscraper.

200 Queen Street. Melbourne. Completed in 1983. Curved mirror glass skyscraper.

Rialto Towers, Melbourne; completed 1986. Australia's best example of a mirror glass corporate skyscraper

Waterfront Place, Brisbane. Completed 1989.

Governor Phillip Tower, Sydney. Completed 1994.

The Jam Factory. Chapel Street, South Yarra, Victoria. Completed in 1979. Feature mock historical elements juxtaposted with old factory

120 Collins Street. Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 1991. Evocative of a 1920s North American skyscraper.

Paddy's Market. Haymarket, New South Wales.

RMIT Building 8. Swanston Street, Melbourne. Completed 1993. References to pop-culture and significant Melbourne landmarks.

Boundary Street retail buildings. West End, Queensland. Completed 1999.

Storey Hall (The Green Building). RMIT. Swanston Street, Melbourne. Completed 1994. One of the earliest examples of Deconstructivist design in Australia.

450 Swan Street. Completed 1995. Deconstructivist form integrates an old bank with new offices.

Nan Tien temple. Wollongong, New South Wales. Completed in 1995.

Swan Bells. Perth. Completed in 2000.

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Southbank, Victoria. Completed 2002

National Museum of Australia. Completed 2001.

"Newman House" in St Kilda, Victoria; completed 2000. An example of contemporary Post modern pop architecture.

Telstra Dome. Melbourne; completed 2000.

Southern Cross Station, Melbourne; completed 2006.

K2 Apartments. Windsor, Victoria. Completed 2006. Highly visible solar panels, prominent natural ventilators and use of natural materials.

Council House 2. Little Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 2006. World's first 6 star green rating building features louvered facade, natural and recycled materials, solar panels and thermal mass cooling.

Victoria Point, Melbourne Docklands; completed 2005;

Freshwater Place, Southbank, Victoria; completed 2006.

Eureka Tower, Southbank, Victoria; completed 2006