Swanston Academic Building
The Swanston Academic building is an RMIT building designed by the architecture firm Lyons and is located on Swanston Street in Melbourne across from Peter Corrigan designed building 8 and ARM's Storey Hall.Photo: AAM123, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: University building
- Description: university building in Melbourne, Australia
- Also known as: “Building 80” and “RMIT Swanston Academic Building”
- Address: 427-433 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Melbourne Southern Cross and RMIT Melbourne City campus.
Melbourne Southern Cross
Photo: Xb-70, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Melbourne's Southern Cross Station is not just the main station of Melbourne, but where the entire Victorian rail network comes together. It's at the western edge of Melbourne CBD, with plenty tram, suburban and regional connections, in addition to a coach terminal.
RMIT Melbourne City campus
University
The Melbourne City campus of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is located in the city centre of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is sometimes referred to as "RMIT City" and the "RMIT Quarter" of the city in the media.
State Library
Railway station
Photo: LivelyRatification, CC BY-SA 4.0.
State Library railway station is an underground railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Sunbury line, which is part of the Melbourne rail network.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greek Precinct and Chinatown.
Greek Precinct
Neighborhood
The Greek Precinct, Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, is a Greek cultural area centred on the eastern end of Lonsdale Street in the Melbourne city centre.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
Photo: Sgroey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Centred at the eastern end of Little Bourke Street, it extends between the corners of Swanston and Spring streets, and consists of numerous laneways, alleys and arcades.
CBD
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The central business district of Melbourne is the city's cultural, entertainment and financial heart. Locally called the CBD, or simply "the City", it is where most international and interstate visitors spend the bulk of their time.
Swanston Academic Building
Latitude
-37.80826° or 37° 48′ 30″ southLongitude
144.96268° or 144° 57′ 46″ eastInception
September 1st, 2012Levels
11Open location code
4RJ65XR7+M3OpenStreetMap ID
way 83569106OpenStreetMap feature
building=universityOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q14935279
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