Everything about Melbourne Central Shopping Centre totally explained
Melbourne Central is a large
shopping,
office, and
public transport hub in the city of
Melbourne,
Australia. The complex includes the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, which was refurbished in 2005 by architects
Ashton Raggatt McDougall; the
Melbourne Central railway station (a part of the
City Loop underground railway and formerly called Museum); and the 211
m high
office tower with its distinctive black colour and two
communications masts.
History
Contained underneath the shopping centre's massive glass cone sits the
Coop's Shot Tower which was built on the site between
1889 and
1890. It ceased to be used in
1960. The tower was retained to become a focal-point of the centre.
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 first Australian branch of the
Daimaru department store, which closed in
2002 after a decade of unprofitable operation. Daimaru also briefly had an operation on the
Gold Coast in
Queensland, which also closed.
The renovated centre, with a postmodern design, by
architects
Ashton Raggatt McDougall, aimed to open the complex to more natural light, new street-front shopping strips, and bubble-like additions to the footbridge across Little Lonsdale Street, but largely compromised the geometrical modern themed design of Kurokawa.
Tenants
Melbourne Central currently has around 390 stores. There is a footbridge across Lonsdale Street to the adjacent
Myer department store, with the layout of the centre allowing people to walk almost uninterrupted through some form of a shopping centre for over half of the city's width or 5 city blocks, from La Trobe street to Little Collins Street. This is able to occur via Melbourne Central which joins to Myer which in turn joins to David Jones over Bourke Street Mall.
The upper levels of the centre house a
Hoyts Cinema complex as well as bars and nightclubs.
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