Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne)

Hamer Hall is buried. Roy Grounds put it three storeys underground in the 1980s to handle the Yarra's flood plain. ARM Architecture's 2012 reinterpretation kept the bones and rebuilt the interior as a fever dream of cantilevered timber drums lit like a discotheque between sets. The 2,466-seat auditorium is the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's home. The foyer staircase coils around a central void like the inside of a nautilus shell. From the river-side entrance after dark, the Arts Centre's 162-metre spire is lit from within and acts as the city's tuning fork.