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Open House Melbourne 2020 is featuring a virtual tour and Q&A of the famous Capitol Theatre on Saturday 25 July 2020 at 11am. Register for this free event at: https://www.openhousemelbourne.org/melbourne/buildings/the-capitol-rmit-university/

Enjoy the theatre’s magnificent interior and its spectacular illuminated crystalline ceiling. Renowned Australian architect Robin Boyd described The Capitol as “the best cinema that was ever built or is ever likely to be built”.

Open House Melbourne 2020 is also promising to provide a virtual tour of Griffin’s Salter House, Toorak. The house was built in the mid 1920s, and is built of knitlock, the segmental concrete building system designed by Walter Burley Griffin and engineer David Jenkins, that was patented in 1917. More information about the house and possible tour at https://www.openhousemelbourne.org/building/the-former-salter-house/

22/7/2020

The Capitol Theatre’s expansive ceiling of prismatic plaster elements conceals thousands of coloured lights that could be dimmed and mixed to create a spectacular effect. Recent restoration work has updated the lighting that animates the amazing crystalline interior. Photographer John Gollings.