Image: The ceiling of the Capitol Theatre. There is no exterior to this – it is just a 1920’s office block. From Jes on Flickr.
Robin Boyd, architect and Modernist crusader, described the Capitol Cinema in Melbourne’s Swanston Street as ‘the best cinema that was ever built or is ever likely to be built’. He was fighting to save it in the 1960’s, in one of the first great conservation battles in Victoria.
