Australia: New greenhouse for Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market
The new pavilion, which will cost $5 million to build, will run from Victoria Street to just north of Franklin Street. At 260 metres long and 16 metres wide, that will make the new conservatory the longest inner-city greenhouse in the world, according to the City of Melbourne.
The structure – which will sit on nine-metre columns, suspended above a space that is currently a carpark – is supposed to be temporary and will house fruit and vegetable sellers during the $250 million market redevelopment.
“You would normally find these kinds of greenhouses on agricultural land, so it will be incredible to have one of this size in the heart of Melbourne,” Lord Mayor Robert Doyle tells Broadsheet.
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