LAB Architecture Studio was a firm of architects and urban designers based in Melbourne, Australia with international offices in London and Shanghai.
[1] Peter Davidson[2] after graduating from Bachelor of Architecture in 1980 from the NSW Institute of Technology, Sydney, moved to London in 1981 where he became editorial assistant for the journal International Architect.
[5] Completed in 2002, Federation Square is situated on a 3.6-hectare (8.9-acre) corner site bound by Flinders and Swanston Streets in Melbourne, Australia.
[6] In 1997 an international design competition was launched by the Victorian Government with a focus of creating new civic space for Melbourne, connecting Flinders Street to the Yarra River and enhancing the cultural attributes of the city.
Federation Square was met with widespread disapproval, the architects receiving hate mail from people who loathed the design.