Wherever you look, there are bird’s-eye views over the city and bay through the double-height glass walls of the 80-floor sky lobby, and that’s just the start.
It’s been nine years in the making, but the Ritz-Carlton’s second hotel in Australia is finally open, and executive chef Michael Greenlaw – a keen fisherman and free diver – is showing us some of the spots where he will be sourcing seafood for its restaurant, Atria.
The view from the writer’s suite south-west over Marvel Stadium, down the Yarra River and out to Port Phillip Bay.If you want to understand the layout of Melbourne, this is the place to do it. All the landmarks of the city are laid out around you, from Southern Cross Station below to the Dandenong Ranges out east.
Black-ink sketches of Melbourne by Robert Scholten, pasted against skies of gold leaf, adorn the lift lobbies of the guestroom floors.Melburnians are somewhat puzzled by the location of the newest Ritz-Carlton, on the former site of, is a bet by developer Far East Consortium and Ritz-Carlton owner Marriott on the future gentrification of the unloved western end of the CBD and a general development shift west.
“The Ritz-Carlton will be a massive demand driver for [the western end] of town,” predicts Marriott International vice-president for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Sean Hunt.Arsineh Houspian “There are the beautiful boulevards and the classical architecture, the Paris end of town, which is very Ritz-Carlton, and we also have this wonderful dynamic culture of laneways,” says Hockin. “You have the refinement and then this rawness. This is what we wanted to bring in, and obviously Melbourne is an art city.”
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