Town Hall named one of World's Most Beautiful Stations

Town Hall forms one of our five new stations for Melbourne's Metro Tunnel, which also includes Arden at North Melbourne, Parkville, State Library, and Anzac on St Kilda Road. The architecture of the Metro Tunnel integrates a line-wide approach, creating enduring landmarks, distinctive and beautiful station interiors and buildings and their surrounds that Melburnians will embrace with pride for generations to come.

Town Hall’s design follows our ‘Open Metro’ philosophy, with fresh air and natural light flooding into generous underground spaces. The station features a civic loggia, a protected meeting place for a rejuvenated city square. It responds to the dense CBD with dramatic entrances and cathedral-like vaulted volumes below. The loggia is an architectural continuation of the crypt, an engaging below ground space, which extends the city square experience within the station itself.

All five stations on the Metro Tunnel are on track to achieve a 6 Star Green Star design accreditation from the Green Building Council of Australia, making them some of the most sustainable railway stations in the world. The ecological, material, and climate initiatives set a benchmark for future transport infrastructure, ensuring benefits extend to environmental performance, resource efficiency, and community wellbeing across Melbourne’s inner city.