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Old magistrates Court of Melbourne: The building was built in 1911. It is made of blue stone which has been turned yellow over years. The roof was originally copper and the doors are wooden. Some of the sandstone is eroded and the wooden doors are very creepy. This building has been used many different ways. It was built a magistrates court. Some of the most famous things that happened there was the Ned Kelly 1880. It was previously occupied by the Supreme Court from 1843-1910. That building was knocked down to make place for the Magistrates court. In 1997, the building was sold to RMIT. The old Magistrates court is now known as RMIT building 20. Something interesting about the building is the Hon J Drysdale Brown's memoral stone is engraved into the wall. He was an attorney and solisitor. The magistrates court has affected the livability, sustainability and citizenship before it was a school by providing justice against crime. They reused the land after the Supreme Court. It enforces laws and it put citizens on trial also it worked for the government. Livability, sustainability and citizenship are still shown at the old Magistrates Court. Because it is a school, it provides education. Alot of people come around the area of the building, so there is alot of public transport right near it. It is a sustainable building because it is being reused. There is also a car park on the block. Many tourists come next door to the Old Melbourne Gaol, so even more people are occuping the land. Almost the whole entire block is being resused. RMIT building 20 provides education for citizens and non citizens. People that are studing there, who are from other countries, can apply for a citizenship and may be able to get it easier.

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Old Melbourne Police Headquarters: The Old Melbourne Police Headquarter is located across the Old Magistrates Court in the corner of Russell Street and Latrobe Street in Melbourne CBD. It’s a multi-storey building with orange bricks. It was built in 1930 to 1940 in an Art Deco style by an architect named Percy Edgar Everett. This design of the building was reminiscent of the Empire State Building in New York. In 2005, the eastern wing of the Old Melbourne Police Headquarter was demolished to make way for a new apartment building. The new apartment building is now known as ‘Concept Blue’. This building was used for the opening titles for the television series Homicide, a fictional police drama series about the homicide squad of the Victoria police force. Now the Old Melbourne Police Headquarter is use as an apartment building since 1990 and the police headquarter moved to William Street. The building was once a symbolic home of Victoria police force, as the site of the Russell Street Bombing in 1986. Constable Angela Taylor aged 21 died on duty, 22 people was injured, damages to the police headquarter and surrounding buildings, the estimated cost to repair them was at more than one million dollars. 

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coops shot tower.

The coops shot tower was built in 1890 to supply musket ammunition to the military and firearm possessing citizens. The tower is 10 stories and over 50 metres tall, when the tower was in use it manufactured 6 tonnes of lead shot per week in a complicated process using freefall of molten lead. The lead is heated at the top of the tower and dropped through a copper sieve, as it falls through the centre of the tower the droplets of liquefied metal solidified into spheres, when the spheres hit the pool of water at the bottom they cool and are collected and separated from any imperfect shots. The coops shot tower helped contribute to the liveability of Melbourne by providing jobs to people, it contributed to citizenship by protecting the country by supplying ammunition to the army. It was saved from destruction and in 1991 and the Melbourne central shopping centre and train station built around it, and an 84 metre high cone shaped glass roof placed above it.

The coops shot tower is now an integral part of the shopping complex and has a small museum in the bottom levels accessible through the jeans store. The coops shot tower helps with liveability today by supplying jobs with the jean store at the bottom, and it contributes to sustainability because the old tower is being reused rather than replaced.



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