THE NEW NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA by Lake Burley Griffin, in Canberra, brilliantly floodlit at night The building, costing $8 million, is the first stage and main building of a complex of three which will be able to house 11 million volumes. The white marble main structure, modelled on the Parthenon of Greece, will be officially opened next month.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31727, 10 July 1968, Page 16
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59THE NEW NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA by Lake Burley Griffin, in Canberra, brilliantly floodlit at night The building, costing $8 million, is the first stage and main building of a complex of three which will be able to house 11 million volumes. The white marble main structure, modelled on the Parthenon of Greece, will be officially opened next month. Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31727, 10 July 1968, Page 16
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