Life's a beach for civil servants in new AMP building A photo of the beach umbrellas inside the offices of Public Transport Victoria. PUBLIC transport bureaucrats are sitting under beach umbrellas to shield them from the sun streaming into their new office. Staff from Public Transport Victoria recently moved into the AMP building at 750 Collins St and arrived to find umbrellas erected among desks on every floor. Wealth management firm AMP is also in the building, originally designed for AXA by Cox Architects and completed by Grocon in 2007. One PTV employee said they believed the Colonial First State-owned building was inspired by a building in the northern hemisphere. "Obviously in the southern hemisphere you don't need as much light," the employee said. It (the umbrellas) is a bit of a laugh. Work on your tan at work, that kind of stuff gets said. Opposition transport spokeswoman Fiona Richardson said the new PTV offices looked like something from the set of Gilligan's Island. "No matter who's paying for these umbrellas the question remains, why did the Liberal minister approve this bureaucratic move wasting taxpayers' dollars when perfectly good offices already exist?" she asked. Public Transport Victoria spokesman Matt Phelan said the umbrellas were on most floors of the building and PTV inherited them with the lease at no cost. "PTV has relocated from multiple floors across four CBD sites into two floors of one building at Docklands," Mr Phelan said. Others tenants had previously raised the issue of light from the atrium with the building owner, who is looking at longer-term options for addressing the issue, which would be at the building owner's expense. The building's owner, Colonial First State, declined to comment to the Herald Sun.