The newly opened Melbourne Place hotel boasts a stunning rooftop space called Mid Air, blending retro aesthetics with modern design. The space offers panoramic city views, vibrant cocktails, and Instagram-worthy treats.
City skyline views from Mid Air on level 12. Not everyone was thrilled when the heritage Theosophical Society and Bookshop on Russell Street was levelled to make room for yet another CBD hotel. Probably least of all (though, for different reasons), QT Melbourne , directly across the street. Like many pandemic-born developments, Melbourne Place’s build hit some turbulence – in late 2022, the $155 million project went into forced administration, pushing the finish date out a year.
The luxe property finally launched in November 2024 with 191 rooms and suites, and a formidable suite of hospitality offerings fronted by hatted chefs and multimillion-dollar fitouts. The torn-down 1920s pale heritage facade has been replaced with a handsome rust-hued high-rise, emulating aspects of the street’s heritage splendour through the clever blending of familiar red-brick and masonry with modernist design.The 1980s called, and it wants its Jarrah back. But seriously, those well-oiled woody, reddish tones are a beautiful base for lead architecture and design firm Kennedy Nolan’s bold Australian-inspired palette of gold, green, pink and blue.The firm has tastefully summoned some such retro details throughout the property, though perhaps nowhere more masterfully than the rooftop space, Mid Air. Soft golds and spectrums of red, from dusty pink to crimson, create a warm and deeply inviting space to linger in the sun over a mezcal cocktail – or perhaps one of their ultra-Instagrammable strawberry and olive oil sundaes, sprinkled with Honey Joys in another nostalgic nod. White-and-gold tiled floors and oversized circular windows, that peer across the city, steer into the Mediterranean aesthetic. There’s no rooftop pool to complement the resort vibes, sadly, though this might be a stroke of genius – every inch of al fresco space is humming with diners on the Saturday we visi
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