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For an experience above all else tourists come to Melbourne's Eureka Tower. The three-hundred meter high building was opened on the 11th of October, 2006. It took four years and two months to build the 500 million dollar building. The building is ninety-two storeys high and is the tallest residential tower. The outside of top ten floors are plated with 24 carat gold. The Eureka  Tower has the fastest lifts in the southern hemisphere, you can get up 3680 stairs in just 40 seconds!

The Eureka Tower has activities for everyone. For a mind-blowing adventure a popular attraction is Skydeck 88. Here you can witness breathtaking views, from the highest viewing platform in the southern hemisphere. Skydeck 88 also provides tourists with the unique EDGE experience. The EDGE takes you three meters out from the buliding where you will be almost three-hundred meters above the ground. The EDGE is made to 'reach for the sky' and gives an anstonishing sight. You can also have fun learning about Melbourne's history with the serendipity table. This is a six meter long interactive board with many facts and stories on Melbourne's past. On the terrace you can see Melbourne in on an open balcony three hundred meters above the ground! We looked at two ads for the Eureka Tower. The first was a brochure. We thought it had stunning pictures and intriguing writing. It gave us information about all the exhilarating activites which you can do there and put it in a very interesting and easy to read way. It was short and simply put, but very effective. This brochure was visually appealing and truely made us want to visit the Eureka tower. The second ad which we looked at was the [|Eureka Skydeck website]. This site had links to all the different activities. Each page had remarkable pictures of the views and gave us a lot of useful information. This website is aimed at tourists wanting to visit the Eureka Tower; with a brief on the what there is to see and do and information on admission and times. The information is easy to read and each page starts with a discriptive paragrah, which really gets you interested. Overall, this website proved to be very effective because we all really want to visit.

By Natalie