Federation Square

This guide to Federation Square in Melbourne opens in December 2017, when a demolition crew arrived not for a crumbling relic but for the Birrarung Building, barely fifteen years old, with plans to hand the site to Apple. It reaches back to the square's own origin fight in 1997, when architects Donald Bates and Peter Davidson won a fractured, triangle-patterned design that heritage campaigners forced them to alter, and names the truncated glass shard still standing as a trace of that dispute. Look for it while you listen, standing near Princes Bridge.