Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project
Melbourne, Australia, Oceania
Completed · Transport · Underground Metro Rail Network · Temperate · 2025
A 9-km twin tunnel connecting the Sunbury and Cranbourne-Pakenham rail lines through five new underground stations beneath Melbourne's CBD, opened November 2025. Anzac Station features an 85-metre timber-steel hybrid canopy above ground; underground concourses use skylights, coloured structural elements and tree-form columns to pull natural light below street level.
Innovation highlights
- 85-metre timber-steel hybrid canopy at Anzac Station — largest of its type in Australian rail infrastructure
- passive daylighting strategy drawing natural light into deep underground concourses
- tree-shaped column structures at Town Hall Station distributing loads and framing cathedral-scale space
- 5-station cross-city underground network enabling turn-up-and-go metro frequency for Melbourne for first time
- each station architecturally distinct while sharing a coherent wayfinding logic
- Client / Developer
- Victorian Government / Rail Projects Victoria
- Architect
- RSHP + Hassell + WW+P Architects
- Engineer
- Arup
- Type
- Underground Metro Rail Network
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