Rialto Towers - Melbourne

Location: 525 Collins Street
Opened: October 1986

The original Rialto Building was built 1889 and stood at 5-storeys tall. It sat alongside the Robb's Building, and the Winfield building. These buildings sat derelict during the 1970's until in 1980 when the Grollo Group purchased the site for redevelopment.

Although the Robb's Building needed to be demolished, the original Rialto Building and the Winfield were retrained and still sit near the corner of King and Collins Streets. The Rialto towers, named in tribute to the original building on the site, were built between 1982 and 1986.

The building consists of two towers, the north tower is 247 metres tall, while the south tower is 185m.

The Rialto was Australia's tallest building for 20 years, until the 297 metre Eureka Tower was opened in 2006.

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