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Crown Metropol: 8 Whiteman Street, Southbank

Crown Metropol viewed from Clarendon Street to the north

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Crown Metropol is a 28 storey modern landmark which  opened on Wednesday 21 April, becoming part of the Crown Entertainment Complex at Southbank.  The 5 star 5 star 658 room hotel’s design is a sleek curved S-shaped curtain wall box was design was by Bates Smart architects and it was constructed by Baulderstone Pty Ltd at a cost of $300 million.12

Media House: 655 Collins Street, Docklands

Media House, opened October 28 2009 by Victorian premier John Brumby, is the latest purpose built headquarters of The Age newspaper, one of Melbourne’s longest running papers.  A major feature of the building is its giant digital media screen which faces and open plaza that steps and slopes down to the corner of Spencer and Collins Street.

Designed by Bates Smart1, and constructed by Grocon for Fairfax media group at a cost of $110 million2 it was designed to be a contemporary replacement for the dated old Age offices further down Spencer Street.

  1. Media House project profile – Bates Smart http://www.batessmart.com.au/projects/office-buildings/media-house-docklands
  2. Dobbin, Marika Media House opens, reviving interest in building over rail lines. The Age. October 28, 2009

AMP Square: 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne

AMP Square's main tower at 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne viewed from the corner of Bourke and William streets

This 26 storey 113 metre building was completed in 1969.  Constructed on part of the site of John Sanderson & Co. woolbroking premises, St. James Building, 111 William Street, a large five storey second empire building which spanned an entire city block.

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