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| | Melbourne gets square - smh.com.au |
 | | Federation Square, after all, is directly across the road from the city's somewhat less disputed architectural gem, Flinders Street Station, still a busy pedestrian and transport interchange and meeting place for Melburnians. |
 | | Federation Square's piece de resistance - aside from its quirky, undulating sandstone public square, vaguely reminiscent of Sienna's equivalent - is the $35 million giant glass atrium that leads grandly to the NGVA main entrance. |
 | | The atrium is intended as a counterpoint to the open-air square, as a climate-controlled sanctuary from Melbourne's mercurial weather with a strange, glass-encased forest of exposed cantilever galvanised steel interlocking frames, a reference to the "triangular geometry" of the facades. |
| www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/10/18/1034561312647.html (1727 words) |
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