Opened in January 2018 on the Burswood peninsula beside the Swan River, Optus Stadium is the largest sporting and entertainment venue in Western Australia and the third largest stadium in the country. Construction began in 2014, and the finished arena, designed by Hassell, Cox and HKS, holds a little over 60,000 for football and stretches toward 65,000 for rectangular sports and as many as 75,000 for concerts. It replaced the ageing Subiaco Oval as Perth's premier ground and quickly became a fix.....

Rising 82.5 metres in copper and glass beside the Swan River, the Bell Tower at Barrack Square is one of Perth's most recognisable landmarks. It was built as Western Australia's millennium project and handed over to the public in December 2000, designed by the local architects Hames Sharley. The tower exists to house the Swan Bells, a ring of eighteen change-ringing bells. Twelve of them came from the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, beside Trafalgar Square in London, and are recorded as exis.....

Built by a temperance society that preached total abstinence from alcohol, the Rechabite Hall is now a multi-level entertainment complex whose bars cheerfully invert its founders' mission. The heritage-listed building at 224 William Street in Northbridge was constructed in 1924 as the headquarters of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a friendly society and part of the temperance movement, and it became one of Perth's most popular dance halls in the decades that followed. Designed by the note.....