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Council House, Perth

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Council House

Council House is a high modernist skyscraper set in the Stirling Gardens which was designed by Howlett and Bailey Architects and opened by The Queen during the 1962 Perth Empire Games. It underwent extensive internal refurbishment in the 1990s.

In February 2006 Council House was placed on the state of Western Australia's list of Heritage Places, on an interim basis.

Council House is an example of architectural design known as brutalism. Brutalist buildings usually are formed with striking repetitive angular geometries, and often revealing the textures of the wooden forms used to shape the material, which is normally rough, unadorned poured concrete.

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