Crown Melbourne is an entertainment and hotel complex on the south bank of the Yarra River in Southbank, Melbourne, Australia. Its architects were Bates Smart and Perrott Lyon Mathieson, with Daryl Jackson in association. It opened as a temporary venue at the World Trade Centre on June 30, 1994, and the permanent complex opened on May 8, 1997.
The complex covers about 510,000 square meters across roughly two city blocks and was the largest casino complex in the Southern Hemisphere. It has three hotel towers: Crown Towers with 481 rooms on 38 floors, Crown Metropol with 658 rooms on 28 floors, and Crown Promenade with 465 rooms on 23 floors.
The Palladium ballroom seats 1,500. Eight towers along the Yarra shoot fire spheres about 10 feet (3 m) in diameter at hourly, choreographed intervals. Lloyd Williams founded and ran the complex until Publishing & Broadcasting Limited took over in 1999.
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