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Café to forecourt at northern end is designed
to cater for the sports precinct.

love to be part of something they eventually take great
pride in. It's a very non-standard building. Almost every
aspect of that building is non-standard.
Post-war modernism produced more than its share of
sterile, soul-less buildings, but there is now a more human
modernity that sees amenity shaped by ergonomics.
That's true. It's interesting to see the progression of
architecture from the modernist ideals through to where
we are now. You could say the modernists were lucky,
in that they didn't have to worry too much about safety
and performance standards in their design. Many of the
projects of that Modernist era would feel and operate in
a totally different way just with, for instance, the kind of
glass now available.