Forrest Place

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.

View south along Forrest Place towards the Murray Street Mall and Carillon City . Forrest Chase is located on the left (seen prior to its 2019 redevelopment).
Forrest Place is bounded to the west by the Commonwealth Bank building, the General Post Office building and Albert Facey House
Forrest Place in 1971 – looking south toward Murray Street, Padbury Buildings to left, Commonwealth Bank Building to right rear
Children playing in the Water Labyrinth interactive sculpture by artist Jeppe Hein
Melbourne fans celebrate the day after the Demons won the 2021 AFL Grand Final that was played in Perth.
The "Grow Your Own" public artwork erected in August 2011 at the northern end of Forrest Place
Forrest Place was officially opened by the Governor-General Lord Forster at 03:00 pm on 26 September 1923. [ 5 ]