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The 7.5million dollar extension was completed earlier this year. The eye catching architecture of the RMIT Universities $600 million capital works program was designed by Ashton Raggat McDougall who also built the Storey hall in 1995. You might think and wonder what the green architecture means, well the story behind the green goo is that it is the brain of Melbourne and were the thinking starts. The canopy design is based on Storey Hall's geometric Penrose tiles, teo geometric shapes, 54and 72 degree rhombuses, covering an infinite surface in non-periodic patterns. On the other side of Swanston St, RMIT is building a $62 million design hub, designed by Sean Godsell.

Storey hall was built 1884 by O'Dea and Kennedy builders from Carlton and designed by Tappin, Gilbert and Deenehy, and was finished and opened in 1887. The building was entered in the Government Buildings Register and the Heritage Council. It is classified by the National trust and designated a "Notable building" in the Melbourne city Council planning planning scheme. In 1994 the building undergo-ed a major refurbishment adding a grand design of shapes and patterns. The refurbishment cost $13.9 million and was finished in 1995.(Information from Toby at INFO Corner - RMIT)  Bibliography