Crown Towers is a hotel skyscraper located in the
Southbank precinct of
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metro ...
,
Australia
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. Built in 1997, the hotel is one of three hotels at the
Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex
Crown Melbourne (also referred to as Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex) is a casino and resort located on the south bank of the Yarra River, in Melbourne, Australia. Crown Casino is a unit of Crown Limited, and the first casino of the ...
, the others being: Crown Promenade (2003) and Crown Metropol (2010). Located on the banks of the
Yarra River
The Yarra River or historically, the Yarra Yarra River, ( Kulin languages: ''Berrern'', ''Birr-arrung'', ''Bay-ray-rung'', ''Birarang'', ''Birrarung'', and ''Wongete'') is a perennial river in south-central Victoria, Australia.
The lower s ...
, it overlooks the city centre,
Kings Domain
Kings Domain is an area of parklands in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It surrounds Government House Reserve, the home of the governors of Victoria, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, and the Shrine Reserve incorporating the Shrine of Remembrance.
...
,
Port Phillip and
Docklands.
Description
Proposals for a Crown hotel to join the casino date back to as early as 1994, at a time when Crown casino was situated in a temporary location on the north bank of the Yarra River. Designed by
Daryl Jackson
Daryl Sanders Jackson AO (born 7 February 1937) is an Australian architect and the owner of an international architecture firm, Jackson Architecture. Jackson also became the associate professor of the University of Melbourne and Deakin Univers ...
and Hudson Conway, the Crown Towers hotel was completed in 1997 in Southbank, alongside the new casino complex.
The 5–star hotel opened on 8 May 1997, albeit behind schedule. With 482 hotel rooms, across 43 levels, Crown Towers stands at in height – making it the tallest all-hotel building in Australia.
The hotel is the first skyscraper (building to reach at least ) to be constructed in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, a location wherein some of the
tallest buildings in the city stand.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Melbourne
Melbourne, the second-largest city in Australia, is home to approximately 758 completed high-rise buildings. Of those completed and or topped-out, 73 buildings are defined as "skyscrapers"–buildings which reach a height of at least ; m ...
References
External links
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Crown towers— on
CTBUH
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is an international body in the field of tall buildings and sustainable urban design. A non-profit organization based at the Monroe Building in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States ...
Skyscraper Center
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Skyscrapers in Melbourne
Hotel buildings completed in 1997
Hotels in Melbourne
Skyscraper hotels in Australia
Buildings and structures in the City of Melbourne (LGA)
1997 establishments in Australia
Southbank, Victoria