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A Melbourne theatre that hosted Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and is home to an opera-singing ghost is up for one of the state’s top architectural awards. See what else is in the running.

Smart home products from Lenovo Science fiction books and movies in the 1960s predicted lots of things about life in the early 21st Century that haven’t yet been realized, from fold-up automobiles to cities in the sky to overnight flights to Mars. So what’s the biggest thing they got right? It’s probably remote home automation, a concept that’s often summed up with phrases such as “smart home” and “connected house.” Those ’60s films loved to show people of the future simply sp...