Crown Towers | |
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![]() Crown Towers in 2010 | |
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General information | |
Status | Completed |
Location | 8 Whiteman Street, Melbourne, Australia |
Completed | 1997 |
Opened | 8 May 1997 |
Height | |
Architectural | 152.5 m (500 ft)[2] |
Roof | 141.5 m (464 ft)[2] |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 43[2] |
Design and construction | |
Architecture firm |
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Developer | Crown Resorts |
Main contractor | Grocon |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 482[3] |
Website | |
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Crown Towers is a hotel skyscraper located in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Australia. Built in 1997, the hotel is one of three hotels at the Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex, the others being: Crown Promenade (2003) and Crown Metropol (2010). Located on the banks of the Yarra River, it overlooks the city centre, Kings Domain, Port Phillip and Docklands.
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.[4][5] Designed by Daryl Jackson and Hudson Conway, the Crown Towers hotel was completed in 1997 in Southbank, alongside the new casino complex.[1] The 5–star hotel opened on 8 May 1997, albeit behind schedule.[6][7] With 482 hotel rooms, across 43 levels, Crown Towers stands at 152.5 metres (500 feet) in height – making it the tallest all-hotel building in Australia.[2][3][8] The hotel is the first skyscraper (building to reach at least 150 metres (492 ft)) to be constructed in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, a location wherein some of the tallest buildings in the city stand.[9][10]