List of tallest buildings in Melbourne
Name Years as tallest Height Floors Notes
Kew Asylum 1871-76 30 m ( 98 ft ) 5
Yorkshire Brewery Tower 1876-88 34 m ( 112 ft ) 8
Fink 's Building 1888-89 43 m ( 141 ft ) 10 Demolished in 1897
The Australian Building 1889-1932 53 m ( 174 ft ) 12 Tallest building in Australia ( 1889-1912 ) . Demolished in 1980
Manchester Unity Building 1932-58 64 m ( 210 ft ) 13
Orica House 1958-62 81 m ( 266 ft ) 20 Tallest building in Australia ( 1958-61 )
CRA Building 1962-69 99 m ( 325 ft ) 26 Demolished in c.1980
AMP Square 1969-71 113.4 m ( 372 ft ) 28
Marland House 1971-72 121 m ( 397 ft ) 32
140 William Street 1972-75 152.5 m ( 500 ft ) 41
Optus Centre 1975-77 153 m ( 502 ft ) 34
Nauru House 1977-78 182 m ( 597 ft ) 52
ANZ Tower at Collins Place 1978-86 188 m ( 617 ft ) 56 Equal-tallest building in Melbourne with Sofitel Hotel at Collins Place from 1980 to 1986
Sofitel Hotel at Collins Place 1980-86 188 m ( 617 ft ) 50 Equal-tallest building in Melbourne with ANZ Tower at Collins Place
Rialto Towers 1986-91 251.1 m ( 824 ft ) 63 Tallest building in Australia ( 1986-91 ) , tallest building in Australia to roof ( 1986-2006 )
101 Collins Street 1991 260 m ( 850 ft ) 50 Tallest building in Australia ( 1991 )
120 Collins Street 1991-2006 266.6 m ( 875 ft ) 52 Tallest building in Australia ( 1991-2005 )
Eureka Tower 2006-2019 297.3 m ( 975 ft ) 91 Tallest building in Australia to roof ( 2006-19 )
Australia 108 2019-present 316.7 m ( 1,039 ft ) 100 Tallest building in Australia to roof ( 2019-present )
Completed -- Timeline of tallest buildings
This lists buildings that once held the title of `` tallest building in Melbourne '' .
Melbourne, the second-largest city in Australia, is home to approximately 758 completed high-rise buildings. Of those completed and or topped-out, 52 buildings are defined as skyscrapers (buildings which reach a height of at least ); more than any other city in Australia. Of the ten tallest buildings in Australia, seven are located in Melbourne. Most of Melbourne's tallest skyscrapers are concentrated in the City Centre precinct; however, other locations of prominent skyscrapers and tall buildings in Melbourne include Carlton, Docklands, Southbank, South Melbourne, South Yarra and St Kilda Road. Geographically, Melbourne's central business district comprises a western skyline and an eastern skyline. Buildings are more densely packed in the west than the east, although the east has two of the city's tallest buildings to architectural feature - 120 Collins Street and 101 Collins Street, respectively, whilst the Rialto Towers (located on the west side) is tallest by roof. As a whole, the city overtook Sydney in 2011 as having the tallest skyline in the country and the 24th-tallest in the world, when the heights of the top ten tallest buildings in the city are combined. Historically, Melbourne has represented several firsts and been the holder of various records, both in Australia and internationally. The city is notable for being one of the first cities in the world to build numerous tall office buildings, alongside New York City and Chicago in the United States, though Melbourne's first skyscraper boom was very short lived. Melbourne was the location for Australia's first high-rise, the APA Building, constructed during this boom in 1889. Melbourne was also the location for the first modern post-WW2 high-rise, ICI House built in 1958. From 1986 to 2005, three of Melbourne's skyscrapers held the title of tallest building in Australia, with the Rialto Towers (1986-91), 101 Collins Street (1991) and 120 Collins Street (1991-2005).