Forrest Place is a pedestrianised square located within the central business district of Perth, Western Australia.
It is 150 metres (490 ft) long,[1] and is paved and landscaped as a pedestrianised square, with seating, public artwork, and trees.
[1] Forrest Place is used in many ways throughout the year, including cultural displays, children's activities and parades, and contains the City of Perth visitors centre.
While the buildings on the east side have changed a number of times in the street's 82-year history, the General Post Office (completed in 1923[7]) and the Commonwealth Bank building (completed 1933[8]), both designed by John Smith Murdoch in the Interwar Beaux-Arts style and faced with Donnybrook stone, have endured significant change around them.
[14] In 2013, the history of protests held at Forest Place, and the responses by authorities, was the subject of a presentation by Murdoch University Adjunct Associate Professor Lenore Layman.