As you know, last week I was in Melbourne and one of the must sees on my list this time was the brand new Emporium shopping centre in the CBD.

Looking up
A few months ago I had attended a speaker series for the DIA, titled Secrets of the Trade and one of the speakers was Byron George from Russell & George.

Organic bench seating
This practice was responsible for a number of retail and food outlets in the new centre and his descriptions peaked my interest.

So much detail
What a beautiful space with so much to look at. Each shop was a work of art just for their fitout. There are still a number of stores to be completed so next trip it will be even more exciting.

Chokolait window
I was worried about the name being confused with Myer Emporium which connects to the centre but have since read that the new Emporium is on the site of Myer’s old Lonsdale Street store and takes up almost a city block.

Camilla
48000m2 of retail heaven. They don’t call me born to shop for nothing!

Had to try out the eateries!