Total House is a Brutalist building featuring seven stacked concrete parking decks capped by a floating office block. Completed in nineteen sixty-five at the corner of Russell and Little Bourke Streets, it was designed by the firm Bogle…
Mid-Century Modern Downtown
This walk reveals the sleek skyscrapers, terrazzo lobbies, and striking mid-century landmarks that reshaped Melbourne's skyline during the post-war architectural boom. It's an easy way to appreciate the clean-lined design legacy hiding just above the city's famous Victorian shopfronts.
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1. Total House
2. The Lyceum Club
The Lyceum Club stands in Ridgway Place, tucked into a quiet pocket of the central business district. Its purpose-built premises, opened in nineteen fifty-nine, feature dining and event facilities that overlook the private gardens of the…
3. 2/60 Collins St
The office tower at sixty Collins Street stands at the corner of Exhibition Street, defined by its flat, grid-like facade and its mid-sixties architectural style. Completed in nineteen sixty-five, the building served for decades as a…
4. 303 Collins St
Three hundred three Collins Street is a thirty-story office tower occupying one of the most prominent street corners in the Melbourne central business district. You can identify the building by its patinated concrete exterior, which stands…
5. 430 Collins St
The Victorian facade of Normanby Chambers distinguishes this building at four hundred and thirty Little Collins Street. Constructed in eighteen eighty-three, it stands as a reminder of the rapid development that reshaped Melbourne during…
6. Eagle House
Eagle House, located at four hundred seventy-three Bourke Street, is defined by a taut, flush skin of green-tinted glass and natural-finished aluminium. Completed in nineteen seventy-two, this twelve-story office tower was designed by the…
7. 140 William St
One hundred and forty William Street is a forty-one-story skyscraper of steel, concrete, and glass, distinguished by its square, free-standing tower and a seven-story car park annex. Completed in nineteen seventy-two, the building stands…