Melbourne Central Shopping Centre
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| Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| Coordinates | 37°48′37.42″S 144°57′47.32″E / 37.8103944°S 144.9631444°ECoordinates: 37°48′37.42″S 144°57′47.32″E / 37.8103944°S 144.9631444°E |
| Opening date | 1991 |
| Developer |
Kisho Kurokawa Ashton Raggatt McDougall (major redevelopment) |
| Management | GPT Group |
| Owner | GPT Group |
| No. of stores and services | 292 |
| Total retail floor area | 55,100m² |
| No. of floors | 6 |
| Parking | 1,600 |
| Website | Official website |
Kisho Kurokawa
Melbourne Central is a large shopping centre, office, and public transport hub in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The complex includes the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, which was refurbished in 2005 by architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall; the Melbourne Central railway station (a part of the City Loop underground railway and formerly called Museum); and the 211-metre (692 ft) high office tower with its distinctive black colour and two communications masts. The centre features a gross leasable area of 55,100 m2. It is owned by GPT Group.
Contained underneath the shopping centre's massive glass cone sits the Coop's Shot Tower which was built on the site in 1888. After last being used in 1961, the tower was retained to become a focal-point of the centre, R.M. Williams and the Shot Tower Museum now take up the inside of it. The tower was also featured in the opening sequence of the 1997 Jackie Chan film Mr. Nice Guy.
The Melbourne Central shopping and office development was designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa in the Metabolist style, and constructed between 1986 and 1991 by Japanese firm Kumagai Gumi at a cost of $1.2 billion. The original anchor tenant was the Japanese department store Daimaru, who opened their first Australian store over six floors located between the shot tower and La Trobe Street. (Daimaru also operated a second store on the Gold Coast in Queensland, which also no longer trades)
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