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18 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Melbourne

18 landmarks with verified facts and stories

Block Arcade
~2 min

Block Arcade

282 Collins St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia

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This might be the most beautiful interior in Melbourne.

Coop's Shot Tower
~2 min

Coop's Shot Tower

300 Lonsdale St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia

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Look up.

Eureka Tower
~2 min

Eureka Tower

7 Riverside Quay, Melbourne City, Southbank, 3006, Australia

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That skyscraper dominating the Southbank skyline is not just tall.

Federation Square
~3 min

Federation Square

Flinders St, Hoddle Grid, Melbourne, 3000, Australia

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When Federation Square opened in two thousand and two, Melburnians absolutely hated it.

Flinders Street Station
~3 min

Flinders Street Station

Flinders St, Batman's Hill, Melbourne, 3000, Australia

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You are looking at the most recognised building in Melbourne.

Luna Park Melbourne
~2 min

Luna Park Melbourne

18 Lower Esp, Lake Ward, St Kilda, 3182, Australia

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That enormous grinning face you walk through to enter Luna Park is not just a quirky entrance.

Manchester Unity Building
~2 min

Manchester Unity Building

220 Collins St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia

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Look up at the corner of Collins and Swanston streets.

Melbourne City Baths
~2 min

Melbourne City Baths

420 Swanston St, Carlton South, Melbourne, 3000, Australia

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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
~3 min

Melbourne Cricket Ground

Barassi Way, Melbourne City, Melbourne, 3000, Australia

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You are looking at the spiritual home of Australian sport.

Princes Bridge
~2 min

Princes Bridge

Swanston St, Greek Quarter, Melbourne, 3000, Australia

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You are crossing one of the oldest river crossing points in Melbourne.

Royal Arcade
~2 min

Royal Arcade

335 Bourke Street, Melbourne

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Welcome to the oldest surviving shopping arcade in Australia.

Royal Exhibition Building
~3 min

Royal Exhibition Building

9 Nicholson Street, Carlton

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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
~3 min

Shrine of Remembrance

Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne

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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
~2 min

St Paul's Cathedral

209 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

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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
~3 min

State Library Victoria

328 Swanston Street, Melbourne

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Walk inside and look up.

The Nicholas Building
~2 min

The Nicholas Building

37 Swanston Street, Melbourne

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From the outside, the Nicholas Building looks like just another heritage office block.

Victorian Trades Hall
~2 min

Victorian Trades Hall

54 Victoria Street, Carlton

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You are looking at the oldest continually functioning trade union building in the world.

Webb Bridge
~2 min

Webb Bridge

Capital City Trail, Docklands

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This is not just a bridge.

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