Melbourne General Post Office

Melbourne General Post Office (also known as Melbourne GPO) is located on the corner of Elizabeth and Bourke Street in Melbourne CBD, Australia and is currently listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. The former purpose built post office building currently functions as a shopping mall, having been redeveloped by adaptive reuse in 2004.The architectural style of the building is Classical with French Second Empire influences and was designed in the Victorian period by architect A.E Johnson.A distinctive architectural element is the clock tower which dominates the intersection of the two streets.

The building occupies the north-eastern corner of the Elizabeth and Bourke Street intersection. The design expresses the classical architecture because of its use of Doric columns in the first level which was constructed between 1859-67. The second level consists of Ionic columns and the third level incorporates Corinthian columns. The interior of the post office is expressive of the past as the postal hall was used functionally business intended for sorting mail. The façade is made from stone. The objective of its late 20th century remodelling was to revitalise the heritage listed building by linking its shops to public spaces and pathways, and providing access to parts of the building previously not open to the public.