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Premier Tower is a mixed-use skyscraper on the corner of Bourke and Spencer Streets, in Melbourne, Australia. [2]Designed by Elenberg Fraser, plans for a 294-metre (965 ft) tall building with 90-storeys were initially proposed in 2014; [3] [4] however, in order not to cast a shadow on the Yarra River to the south, both the height and the number of levels of the project were reduced in later ...
Carlton North is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km (2.5 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Yarra local government areas. Carlton North recorded a population of 6,177 at the 2021 census. [1]
Beverley Hills is a landmark historic apartment development at 65 Darling Street in South Yarra, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, designed by the architect and developer Howard Lawson, and built in 1935-36. Consisting of two blocks in a shared landscape including a swimming pool, they are the best known of a larger precinct of at least 15 ...
The Melbourne central business district (colloquially known as "the City" or "the CBD", [4] and gazetted simply as Melbourne [5]) is the city centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. As of the 2021 census , the CBD had a population of 54,941, and is located primarily within the local government area City of Melbourne , with some parts located ...
Melbourne Business School, Melbourne Law School and part of RMIT University's City Campus are also located in Carlton. Alan Gilbert Building, University of Melbourne at University Square in Carlton. Victoria and Tasmania's Catholic seminary, Corpus Christi College, is located on Drummond Street. The college accommodates forty seminarians who ...
Tallest of three Crown hotels in Melbourne. Upon completion in 1997, it was the tallest all-hotel building in Australia; a record it held until the completion of the Jewel Hotel on the Gold Coast, in 2019. [171] Designed by Hudson Conway Architects and Daryl Jackson. [172] 74 = 140 William Street: 152.5 m (500 ft) 41 1972 Office City Centre
The Hotel Windsor is a luxury hotel in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Opened in 1884, the Windsor is notable for being Melbourne's only surviving purpose-built "grand" Victorian era hotel. The Windsor pre-dates other notable grand hotels including The Waldorf Astoria in New York, the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, the Ritz in Paris and the Savoy ...
The hotel is well known for the nude painting Chloé, painted by French artist Jules Joseph Lefebvre in 1875. [19] The painting is oil on canvas measuring a life size 260 x 139 cm. It was purchased for 850 guineas by Dr Thomas Fitzgerald of Lonsdale Street in Melbourne.