A memorable building with a tower rising above bright white faience blocks. Featuring strong geometric forms, this theatre has lost some of its major features including the whole stalls area. Features a mezzanine floor with arched window flanked by three musical figures. A shopping arcade inserted into built into an existing 1890 building has ceiling cornices and centrepieces decorated with bold flowers and zig zag motifs and a polychromatic terrazzo floor. Streamlined Moderne, it features a green tile frame around industrial glass blocks providing natural light to the stairway.
Additional fins curve back over the parapet and lock onto the facade.
Features striated pilasters rising through three floors to chevron capitals and finned buttresses that curve to a slight setback. Additional fins leap over and lock onto the parapet. One of the most distinctive buildings in Melbourne, it features steel-framed bay windows which reach out to the horizontal banded spandrels. The beehive on the parapet has been removed. Features strong, horizontal spandrels faced with cream faience terracotta.