Southbank is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Australia in the state of Victoria. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Melbourne. It is bordered to the north by the Yarra River, to the south by Park Street, Kingsway to the west, and to the east by St Kilda Road. This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre (also known as The CBD). ... VIC redirects here. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre (also known as The CBD). ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Australian postcodes have four digits; envelopes for posting from Australia reflect this. ... This article is about the physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... ISO 4217 Code AUD User(s) Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island Inflation 1. ... “km” redirects here. ... “Miles” redirects here. ... This article is about the area with the postcodes 3000 and 3004 in Victoria, Australia known as Melbourne. ... Municipalities of Greater Melbourne City of Banyule City of Bayside City of Boroondara City of Brimbank Shire of Cardinia City of Casey City of Darebin City of Frankston City of Glen Eira City of Greater Dandenong City of Hobsons Bay City of Hume City of Kingston City of Knox City... Mayor/President Cr BOLITHO, Janet CEO Mr SPOKES, David Electoral Divisions WARDS (Alma, Albert Park, Blessington, Emerald Hill, Ormond, Sandridge, St Kilda) Councillors Cr RAY, Darren, Cr KLEPNER, Judith, Cr GROSS, Dick, Cr LOGAN, Peter, Cr CRIBBES, Janet, Cr BOLITHO, Janet, Cr SAIT, Karen. ... This article is about a local government area. ... State Electoral District is a term used to refer to a voting area within Australian states. ... The Electoral district of Albert Park is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. ... The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. ... Melbourne Ports is an Australian federal electoral division in the inner south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... This is a list of Municipalities and their suburbs and townships in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, in the State of Victoria, Australia. ... The Melbourne Docklands is a new inner city suburb and Urban renewal project in Melbourne, Australia. ... This article is about the area with the postcodes 3000 and 3004 in Victoria, Australia known as Melbourne. ... This article is about the area with the postcodes 3000 and 3004 in Victoria, Australia known as Melbourne. ... Port Melbourne is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... This article is about the area with the postcodes 3000 and 3004 in Victoria, Australia known as Melbourne. ... South Melbourne Town Hall. ... Albert Park is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in the City of Port Phillip. ... This article is about the area with the postcodes 3000 and 3004 in Victoria, Australia known as Melbourne. ... The term inner-city is often applied to the poorer parts at the centre of a major city. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre (also known as The CBD). ... The states and territories of Australia make up the Commonwealth of Australia under a federal system of government. ... VIC redirects here. ... Municipalities of Greater Melbourne City of Banyule City of Bayside City of Boroondara City of Brimbank Shire of Cardinia City of Casey City of Darebin City of Frankston City of Glen Eira City of Greater Dandenong City of Hobsons Bay City of Hume City of Kingston City of Knox City... This article is about a local government area. ... The Yarra River is a river in southern Victoria, Australia. ... St Kilda Road, through the waterwall at the National Gallery of Victoria St Kilda Road is a street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

Formerly an industrial area and part of South Melbourne, Southbank was transformed into a densely populated suburb of high rise buildings beginning in the early 1990s as part of an urban renewal program. South Melbourne Town Hall. ... Urban Renewal redirects here. ...

The central feature of Southbank is Southgate Arts and Leisure Precinct, a retail, eating, and entertainment precinct on the southern bank of the Yarra River. Southgate features the iconic sculpture Ophelia by Deborah Halpern, which is the big Y symbol (representing Melbourne) that stands at Bear Brass cafe. Southbank is also home to the arts precinct, which includes the Victorian Arts Centre at the eastern end, an entertainment precinct which includes Crown Casino and an office precinct and a hi-density residential precinct which includes some skyscrapers, the tallest of which is the Eureka Tower. The Queensbridge Precinct includes Queensbridge Square, a pedestrian plaza and meeting place. Another riverside precinct to the west takes in the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre and Polly Woodside National Trust museum. The Yarra River is a river in southern Victoria, Australia. ... Deborah Halpern is a mosaic artist from Melbourne, Victoria Australia. ... The Victorian Arts Centre spire The Victorian Arts Centre is a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Southgate precinct of Melbourne, Australia. ... Crown Casino is the largest casino in Australia and it relocated to the Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex at Southbank in 1997. ... The Eureka Tower is a residential building in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Australia. ... View from Crown Casino The Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre is not located in Hong Kong, China 50000km north of the Central Business District. ...

Promenade

Southbank promenade

The Southbank promenade, designed by architects Denton Corker Marshall, runs from Princes Bridge along to Queens Bridge street and Queens Bridge which also incorporates Queensbridge Square and continuing to the west of the Bridge is "Yarra Promenade", which runs underneath Kings Way and Kings Bridge to Clarendon Street, Spencer Street Bridge including Crown Entertainment Complex and promenade restaurants. Denton Corker Marshall (DCM) are a major Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne in 1972. ...

The Southbank art and craft market occurs on the promenade near the Arts Centre every Sunday. The promenade is also home to several buskers and a pavement chalk artists. A street musician with accordion in Bremen A performance comprises an event in which generally one group of people (the performer or performers) behave in a particular way for the benefit of another group of people (the viewer or viewers, or audience). ...

History

Before British settlement, the area now called South Melbourne was a series of low lying swamps inhabited by Aboriginal tribes. Australian Aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Australia. ...

During the time after British settlement, the area which is now Southbank consisted of some old factories, warehouses and wharves mostly built between the 1860s-1920s when the area was part of the first port of Melbourne. It had a few old bridges, the first being the first Princes Bridge and later the Sandridge Bridge which was formerly part of the Port Melbourne railway line from 1888 to 1987, and the Arts centre precinct which was built in the 1960s on a former parkland. Princes Bridge The Princes Bridge is a historic bridge that crosses the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Sandridge Bridge from Southbank The Sandridge Bridge is a historic railway bridge over the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, about to be redeveloped in 2005 as a new pedestrian, cycle path and public space connecting a new Queensbridge Square at Southbank to the Flinders Walk on the north bank. ... The Port Melbourne railway line was a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ...

The suburb was the subject of urban renewal in the early 1990s aimed at stimulating development in a period when Melbourne was experiencing an economic downturn. Urban Renewal redirects here. ...

Denton Corker Marshall designed and oversaw the original Southbank Promenade in 1990 which paved the way for development of apartments. Denton Corker Marshall (DCM) are a major Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne in 1972. ...

Southgate, Sheraton towers and new tall office buildings for The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd and IBM were built along with an award winning pedestrian footbridge at about the same time in late 1992, and combined with a new Sunday arts and crafts market, attracted local and tourist visitors to the area. At the eastern end of the area is the Victorian Arts Centre. This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... The old Herald and Weekly Times building in Flinders St. ... For other uses, see IBM (disambiguation) and Big Blue. ... The Victorian Arts Centre spire The Victorian Arts Centre is a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Southgate precinct of Melbourne, Australia. ...

Further buildings including the Esso headquarters were built between 1992 and 1995. Development expanded along the Yarra westward with the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre ("Jeff's Shed") in 1996 and Crown Casino in 1997, stimulating the first residential towers. In 2001, the boutique "Melburnian" apartments, designed by Bates Smart were one of the first to be aimed at the owner occupier market and included the most expensive penthouse sold in Melbourne at the time. Clarendon Towers also attracted the owner occupiers. Beginning with Southbank Towers in 2001 and the Centurion in 2002, Central Equity began a swathe of apartment towers and at the same time the neighbouring Yarra's Edge precinct of the new Melbourne Docklands began to kick off. This article is about the trade name. ... Crown Casino is the largest casino in Australia and it relocated to the Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex at Southbank in 1997. ... Bates Smart is Australias oldest architectural firm, and one of the worlds oldest, established in 1853 by Joseph Reed as the practice Reed and Barnes. ...

The arts precinct was extended with the construction of the award winning buildings for the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in 2002 and the Victorian College of the Arts school of drama. At around the same time a new headquarters for the State Emergency Service was built. The Australian Centre For Contemporary Art (ACCA) is a contemporary art gallery in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is an educational institution in Melbourne, which offers courses and training in fine art, dance, drama, film and television, music and production. ... Western Australia SES OKA 4WD vehicle. ...

Central Equity continued construction of several blocks of apartment buildings on much of the Southbank land which it had acquired including Riverside Place, The Summit, Melbourne Tower and City Tower. Most of them are aimed at the rental market and managed by Melbourne Inner City Management (MICM) a division of Central Equity.

With a boom in apartment building and the success of the Melburnian, the areas closer to the river began to attract developers. Eureka Tower was begun in 2002, aimed at being the tallest residential tower in the world and finally completed in 2006. By this time an apartment building on the Gold Coast was already claiming this title (although this building's claim is somewhat contentious as it is an otherwise much shorter building with a tall metal mast attached to its roof). The Eureka Tower is a residential building in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Australia. ... Q1 (meaning Queensland Number One) is a skyscraper located in Surfers Paradise, the tourism hub in Gold Coast, Australia. ...

The Queensbridge Precinct began development in 2005 with Freshwater Place. A plaza linked to the north bank and Flinders Street Station via a pedestrian and cycle path developed from the Sandridge Bridge. The formerly disused bridge was opened to the public on 12 March 2006, just in time for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The Northbank promenade was completed later in 2006 to link the sections. Freshwater Place is a 62 floor residential skyscraper in the Southbank district of Melbourne, Australia. ... The Swanston Street Extension frontage of the pre-1910 station Flinders Street Station in 1908 during construction of the current station building Flinders Street Station and the intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets, 1927 Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. ... The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Australia between March 15 and March 26, 2006. ...

An increasing number of corporations began opening their offices in Southbank. PricewaterhouseCoopers relocated their office from Spring Street to Freshwater Place in 2005. Other names on the list include Fujitsu, and Foster's Group. A former PwC office building (Southwark Towers) in London, England. ... Spring Street is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Freshwater Place is a 62 floor residential skyscraper in the Southbank district of Melbourne, Australia. ... For the district in Saga, Japan, see Fujitsu, Saga. ... Fosters Group is a beer group with interests in brewing, wine-making and soft drinks. ...

Transport

A number of tram lines run through Southbank.

Although Southbank promenade forms part of the Capital City Bicycle Trail, the large number of pedestrians in the area means bicycle riding at high speed is hazardous; advisory signs have been posted to try to keep cyclists at speeds of 10 km/h or less. ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ...

Gallery

See also

• City of South Melbourne - the former local government area of which Southbank was a part.

References

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External links

• Local history of Southbank
• Denton Corker Marshall Official website

• Southbank, Victoria is at coordinates 37°49′44″S 144°57′25″E / -37.829, 144.957 (Southbank, Victoria)Coordinates: 37°49′44″S 144°57′25″E / -37.829, 144.957 (Southbank, Victoria)