The famed German camera maker has transformed an entire building in the Melbourne CBD into a retail hub that includes an art gallery.
Melbourne’s CBD office market may be in dire straits, but famous German camera maker Leica is betting on the city’s retail sector mounting a strong comeback after opening its biggest global store on Little Collins Street.
This reactivation of the city’s retail and hospitality scene is being driven to a large extent by the refurbishment of older buildings such as the former David Jones menswear store, which is being transformed into flagships for Mecca and Rodd & GunnBoth these projects run from Bourke Street Mall to Little Collins Street – across the road from the new Leica showroom.
“In just a few weeks, beauty juggernaut Mecca will open its flagship store in the Bourke Street Mall ... also, under way at the moment is the As part of the deal, Mr Sykiotis and Leica collaborated on a multimillion-dollar refurbishment based on designs by German interiors firm Holzrauch and local architects Techne.“The only thing that remained were the outside walls. We even raised the floors to get higher ceilings and cut out the void in the front.”
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