Embracing new graphic space
Within three months of winning the competition for the design of a new civic, commercial and cultural centre in Melbourne, Australia, known as Federation Square, Don Bates and Peter Davidson, or Lab Architects, witnessed the start of work on the substructure for the site They had received no official brief, and only did so four months later.
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