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Melbourne Central, Melbourne, Australia  1.0

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Melbourne Central is a large shopping centre, office, and public transport hub in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The complex includes the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre; the Melbourne Central railway station (a part of the City Loop underground railway); and the 211-metre high office tower with its distinctive black colour and two communications masts.

The Melbourne Central shopping and office development was designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa in the Metabolist style and constructed between 1986 and 1991.

The Glass Cone is the largest glass structure of its type in the world. The cone is 20 storeys high, weighs 490 tonnes and has 92 glass panes. The Coops Shot Tower is the focal point of the shopping centre, with the cone purposefully built to protect the National Trust building.

The upper levels of the centre house a Hoyts Cinema complex as well as ten pin bowling, bars, and the Melbourne Central Lion Hotel, an English style pub.

(source: Wikipedia)

This is my 24th BAT ...and its a biggie!

Melbourne Central is a multi-functional puzzle lot, occupying 14x6 lot space.

Included in the download are:
1) Melbourne Central Shopping Centre (Mandatory) - This piece contains the actual model and is an overhanging prop piece, occupying 5x9 lot space. Provides 2000 CS§§ jobs and costs §6500 to build.
2) ME Bank Tower (Optional) - Placed as a 4x6 lot filler piece, it provides 2000 CO§§ jobs and costs §6500 to build.
3) Melbourne Central Subway Station (Optional) - 1x1 subway piece with a capacity of 2000.
4) A 1x1 cement filler piece - included in case you don't have something already. If you want to delete it, it's located in the RDQ_Melbourne_Central_Station folder, just select RDQ_Cement_Filler_1x1_20813786.SC4Lot and delete.

The recommended assembly pattern is included in the download, but you can assemble it any way you want :)

Download either the Darknite or Maxis night versions (xx_DN or xx_MN respectively) not both. If you're unsure, download the Maxis Night version.

There are no Prop dependencies, although the Dark Nite version requires SimFox_Day_n_Nite_Modd.

Please visit my Melbourne BAT thread to see my upcoming projects.

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SWEEEEEET!!!, this should help me transition into my Little Tokyo area quite nicely.

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Never have I seen BATs on this magnitude. WOW. I'm really sorry for my inadequate response, but there just aren't enough expressions or words for this except WOW. Whoever decided to rate this below 5 is obviously jelly. :yes:

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I remember seeing this in a movie once. There was a fight scene up on the roof that ended with the good guy sliding down one part of it and barley grabbing onto the edge at the bottom. The bad guy slid too but fell off the edge. I forget which movie it was, I saw it a long time ago. 

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When I went to Melbourne I referred to this tower as 'the evil looking one from LOTR' and everyone I talked to go the reference :p Great work as usual! :)

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When I see such a work I think: first there where chiselers. Than came the sculptors. And then there were batters.

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Awesome buddy :thumb: . It's great in my Downtown :)
5/5 for me :D
 
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But people who underrate this upload should explain their choice !
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Yes, i have been waiting for this BAT like a couple waiting for a new born baby, and its finally here ! 

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Excellent job.  I always download your BATs.  The are of the highest quality.

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thank you for this incredible effort  it is truly awesome and sets the bar very high for future works

I don't think the newer simcity games come close to the realism and complexity of SC4 custom content

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Very nice, people will be able to build all of Melbourne soon because of your efforts.

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This upload is epic . It's not just a building , it's a whole friggin' block . 5/5 , we really need more stars for rating . This deserves like , a dozen or more .

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I love it, but I am slightly concerned that my main city will basically resemble Melbourne soon :P

 

5/5

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I remember seeing this in a movie once. There was a fight scene up on the roof that ended with the good guy sliding down one part of it and barley grabbing onto the edge at the bottom. The bad guy slid too but fell off the edge. I forget which movie it was, I saw it a long time ago. 

 

In Jackie Chan's 'Mr. Nice Guy' (1997) there is an action sequence through Melbourne Central, however they don't go on the roof.

You might be confusing it with 'Who Am I' (1998) where Jackie Chan slides down the side of the Willemswerf building in Rotterdam.

Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticE-Eg7I8o

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Brilliant mate!...well looks like we have the Melbourne top ten (actually no we are still missing Telstra Corporate Centre), but brilliant stuff!.

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Outstanding! Very impressive! Bravo! 5/5 (can't understand why some people rates under 5 ....!!!!)

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