The amazing buildings that Melbourne has lost is gobbsmackingly criminal. Melbourne once rivalled London and Paris for its architectural beauty. Melbourne was once more beautiful architecturally beautiful than both of them. But we were to prosaic to understand that. I think, in some ways, we still are that ignorant colony down under. We let the property developers pull them down. We let the property developers destroy them to make a pathetic buck.

The idiot politicians bulldozed the Melbourne Fish Markets in Flinders Street just to make Melbourne look more modern for the 1956 olympics. That was one of the most incredible building you have ever seen. That land in Flinders Street then lay vacant until just a few years ago when that awful bronze monstrosity was built there.

So it is good that we can save one gazillionth of them. The Argus Building is nothing compared to what we have lost, but still it is good.