Melbourne Metro's finalised station designs unveiled
The Victorian Government has unveiled updated & finalised designs for the stations on the Melbourne Metro project with each station entrance, concourse & ticketing area and platform level having its own distinct identity.
With a nod to each station location's context and heritage, the station entrances are anything but uniform. Hassell in conjunction with Weston Williamson and Rogers Stirk & Harbour and Partners are the architects responsible for the finalised designs.
Starting at the westernmost station, North Melbourne, working eastward to the last of the new stations, Anzac, the designs have been described by the government as follows.
North Melbourne
"North Melbourne Station has an impressive large-scale brick arched entrance to reflect the area’s industrial heritage and skylights to enable natural light to filter down on the platforms and concourse."
For the external render of the entrance, refer to the lead image above.
Parkville
"A glass feature roof at the Grattan Street entrance provides passengers visiting this world class health and education precinct with a tree-lined view as well as natural light into the station concourse."
State Library
"Grand entrances at State Library and Town Hall Stations in the heart of the CBD will create new meeting places, with redesigned laneways including cafes and retail shops. Below Swanston Street, passengers will enjoy wide and spacious platforms framed by sweeping arches."
Town Hall
Anzac
"A key element at Anzac Station in Domain will be an architecturally designed canopy reaching up from below ground, providing both natural light and weather protection for the thousands of passengers each day who will move between trains and trams."
The Minister for Public Transport, Jacinta Allan, and newly elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Sally Capp, also announced a wide-scale upgrade to the Elizabeth Street and Degraves Street pedestrian subways this morning.
Upgrades will include restoration and cleaning of heritage tiles in the subways and the metal partition in the Elizabeth Street subway will be replaced with glass.
The pedestrian subway works are part of the previously announced $100 million upgrade for Flinders Street station.
Spring Street has also stated Flinders Street station will be the first of the metropolitan stations to see signage and passenger information displays where each railway line will have its own colour.
North Melbourne Station, née Arden, will be the centre of a new redevelopment zone in which the state government is a major landholder and has previously announced it intends to use that position to effect a greater supply of residential development within the zone.
The Premier is currently on a trade mission to China where he's set to inspect the progress on the construction of the tunnel boring machines that will build the Melbourne Metro Tunnel.
Trains are set to commence running through the new stations in 2025.
