hopePlate 730 · Melbourne, Australia

Federation Square

A fractured civic square, loved and hated, the living room of Melbourne.

2002 · Lab Architecture Studio · Oceania

The chamber score

Waltzing Matilda

Christina Macpherson / Banjo Paterson · 1895

The unofficial anthem under civic stone.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The complex of cultural buildings at the Yarra, a landmark of Australian public space.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Federation Square through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Federation Square was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.