Melbourne Central is a large shopping, office, and public transport hub in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The complex includes the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre (currently being refurbished); the Melbourne Central railway station (a part of the City Loop underground railway and formerly called Museum); and the 211m-high office tower known to locals as the 'Batman building' due to its distinctive black colour and bat-like communications masts.
Contained underneath the shopping centre's massive glass cone sits the old shot tower which originally operated on the site. The tower was retained to become a focal-point of the centre.
The centre is currently being renovated. The design, by architectsAshton Raggatt McDougall, will open the complex up with more natural light, new street-front shopping strips, and a new bubble-like footbridge to the adjacent Myer department store.
The original design of the shopping centre, office tower, and railway station was by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa. The shopping centre's original primary tenant was the only Australian branch of the Daimarudepartment store, which closed in 2003 after a decade of unprofitable operation.
MelbourneCentral (formerly Museum) is an underground railway station in the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Australia.
MelbourneCentral is not the city's central station, as the name suggests, (Flinders Street is the city's central suburban station), but is named after the shopping centre built above and around the station concourse.
MelbourneCentral, like the other two underground City Loop stations (Parliament and Flagstaff) has four platforms over two levels, each serving a separate group of rail lines that leave the Loop and radiate out into the city's suburbs.
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