Recycling binned cigarettes

The City of Melbourne is recycling millions of cigarette butts into industrial products. 

Japanese animations to be showed

The entire collection of films made by one of the world’s most loved and acclaimed animation studios, Studio Ghibli, is coming to the Melbourne CBD in August.

The face of the CBD

Being a 28-year-old Chinese Australian with three tertiary degrees, CBD resident Wendy Liu could very well be the face of Melbourne’s CBD.

Laneway shrine for Chinese dissident

A shrine has appeared at the CBD’s famous street art laneway, Hosier Lane, in memory of the late Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Flammable cladding: residents ignored 

The Victorian Government Cladding Taskforce examining flammable cladding does not include a key stakeholder group – the strata owners that would end up having to manage any remediation works. 

Heritage listing for Shell House

Despite being less than 30 years old, Shell House has been included in the Victorian Heritage Register.

How does your city grow? Can you visualise it?

Remember scrolling through monthly building approvals lists? Seeing a sign on the street about a new development and wondering why you didn’t know about it?  Those days are gone.

OK for Exhibition St tower

An application to build a 58-storey skyscraper at 57-63 Exhibition St has been supported by the City of Melbourne.

Great Western Hotel to go

The gold rush era Great Western Hotel will be partially demolished to make way for a mixed-use 80m tower with 26 levels.

Mandarin Oriental coming

Asian hotel giant Mandarin Oriental is coming to the CBD by signing a management contract for a new luxury hotel at 600 Collins St.

Laneways get green facelift

One of the CBD’s oldest but most neglected laneways, Coromandel Place, is receiving a gradual green facelift. 

Woman died at CBD apartment

Real estate showroom

CBRE has opened a real estate showroom in Chinatown.

River Rink brings true winter

Children and adults put on their skates and spun on the outdoor ice rink by the Yarra River in July.

Police help Red Nose

Melbourne East Police Station staff and their families held a Red Nose Day fundraiser to raise money for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. 

The last school

It was a Friday evening in July and the Oxford Scholar was pulling its last beers. 

Channelling students into entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurial pair Arnav Dutta and Shourov Bhattacharya is determined to bring out the best in the CBD’s brightest international students.

Happy outcome for historic CBD house

Lola Russell and George Dixon got a happy outcome for their nightmare of losing their home when a development company offered to fully restore their hundred-year-old house.

Non-compliant cladding in the CBD

The City of Melbourne (CoM) is refusing to reveal which CBD buildings are still under investigation for their non-compliant, flammable cladding.

Doyle blunts West Gate Tunnel opposition

Melbourne councillors have savaged the proposed West Gate Tunnel project, despite the best efforts of the Lord Mayor to hose them down.