18 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Melbourne
18 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Block Arcade
282 Collins St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
This might be the most beautiful interior in Melbourne.
Coop's Shot Tower
300 Lonsdale St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
Look up.
Eureka Tower
7 Riverside Quay, Melbourne City, Southbank, 3006, Australia
That skyscraper dominating the Southbank skyline is not just tall.
Federation Square
Flinders St, Hoddle Grid, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
When Federation Square opened in two thousand and two, Melburnians absolutely hated it.
Flinders Street Station
Flinders St, Batman's Hill, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
You are looking at the most recognised building in Melbourne.
Luna Park Melbourne
18 Lower Esp, Lake Ward, St Kilda, 3182, Australia
That enormous grinning face you walk through to enter Luna Park is not just a quirky entrance.
Manchester Unity Building
220 Collins St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
Look up at the corner of Collins and Swanston streets.
Melbourne City Baths
420 Swanston St, Carlton South, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
This beautiful Edwardian Baroque building exists because the Yarra River was so disgustingly polluted in the eighteen fifties that people kept getting typhoid from swimming in it.
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Barassi Way, Melbourne City, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
You are looking at the spiritual home of Australian sport.
Princes Bridge
Swanston St, Greek Quarter, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
You are crossing one of the oldest river crossing points in Melbourne.
Royal Arcade
335 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Welcome to the oldest surviving shopping arcade in Australia.
Royal Exhibition Building
9 Nicholson Street, Carlton
You are standing in front of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first building in Australia to receive that designation, and also the building where Australia itself was born.
Shrine of Remembrance
Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne
This is one of the most ingenious pieces of architecture in Australia, and the reason why has nothing to do with how it looks.
St Paul's Cathedral
209 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
This Gothic Revival cathedral stands on the exact spot where the first public Christian service in Melbourne was conducted in eighteen thirty-five, right at the founding of the settlement.
State Library Victoria
328 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Walk inside and look up.
The Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street, Melbourne
From the outside, the Nicholas Building looks like just another heritage office block.
Victorian Trades Hall
54 Victoria Street, Carlton
You are looking at the oldest continually functioning trade union building in the world.
Webb Bridge
Capital City Trail, Docklands
This is not just a bridge.
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