Melbourne Central
Melbourne Central is a large shopping, office, and transit hub in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The complex includes the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre (currently being refurbished); the Melbourne Central railway station (a part of the City Loop subway and formerly called Museum Station); and the 211m-high office tower known to locals as the 'Batman building' due to its distinctive black colour and bat-like communications masts.
Contained underneath the shopping centres massive glass cone sits the old shot tower which orignially operated on the site. The tower was retained to become a focal-point of the centre.
The current renovations, designed by Ashton Raggatt McDougall, will open the complex up with more natural light, new street-front shopping strips, and a new bubble-like footbridge to the adjacent Myer department store.
The original design of the shopping centre, office tower, and railway station was by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa. The shopping centre's original primary tenant was the only Australian branch of the Daimaru department store, which closed in 2003 after a decade of unprofitable operation.
See also: Tall buildings in Melbourne, List of Melbourne railway stations.
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Melbourne Central | Next Station Anticlockwise Flagstaff |
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