Melbourne Monster

The Crown Casino and Crown Towers Hotel complex is a monster. It stretches more than 1,600 feet along the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia, across the way from the 300,000-square-foot Melbourne Exhibition Centre, the largest enclosed space in the Southern Hemisphere. The hotel has 26 meeting rooms, including the Palladium, at 20,100 square feet billed as the largest pillarless ballroom in the Southern Hemisphere. (There's that claim again--are the Brazilians reading this?) The 500-room