Hero Apartments
Hero Apartments was built in 1948-54 as the Russell Street Automatic Telephone Exchange and Postal Building, designed by the Commonwealth Department of Works, the federal government's own public-works office. It held a public postal hall and the automatic equipment switching thousands of Melbourne telephone lines. From 1999 to 2001 the architect Nonda Katsalidis, then practising as Nation Fender Katsalidis, converted it to apartments and added six storeys above the original roof.
In brief
- 1948Construction begins on the Russell Street Automatic Telephone Exchange and Postal Building
- 1954Completed and opened, the first large building finished in central Melbourne since 1940
- 2001Converted to apartments, with six storeys added above the original roof
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