Melbourne Architecture : Buildings

Chadstone Shopping Centre, Malvern East
Design: The Buchan Group / CallisonRTKL architects

699 Bourke Street, Melbourne – 15 Dec 2015
Design: Grimshaw, Architects

photo : John Gollings
When building in the air, a new ground plane needs to be constructed and this was done for this new building. Aligned with the western edge of the existing Southern Cross Station roof, this ground plane sits 24m above the train tracks.

Imperial Doncaster – 17 Nov 2015
Design: The Buchan Group, Architects

photo © Michael Gazzola
The development, featuring a range of one to three bedroom apartments with a series of large penthouses, is set on a steeply sloping site opposite Westfield Doncaster.

Kew House, Melbourne – 19 Aug 2013
Design: Nic Owen Architects

photo : Rhiannon Slatter
The design solution resulted in little change to the overall footprint, consisting of the removal of a late rear extension ‘meals room’ and replacing it with ‘the claw’. Aptly named by the owners the new family-room embraced the sloping land reaching up to the rear raised garden. The claw-roof was conceived to provide solar protection to the north while allowing the winter sun indoors. The claw is surrounded on 3 sides with full height glazing, extending the living environment into the rear landscaped yard.

Flinders St Station, Melbourne – 8 Aug 2013
HASSELL, Herzog and De Meuron win Flinders Street Station Design Competition

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The Australian/Swiss design team of HASSELL, Herzog and De Meuron has won the Flinders Street Station Design Competition. “The jury was unanimous in its decision to award first prize to HASSELL, Herzog & De Meuron, describing their design as ‘a beautiful and compelling integration of aspects of the original station design, strongly reinforcing its gateway status’,” Dr Napthine said.

Wyndham Harbour Project Expansion, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia – 18 Jul 2013
Development Expansion news
Approval for the expansion of one of the most exciting redevelopments in Melbourne’s west gaied: extensions to the Wyndham Harbour project announced. Planning Scheme Amendment C156 will allow Wyndham Harbour to grow to a community of almost 1,400 residents. Approval will also assist in fast tracking a ferry service link to the Docklands and the CBD.

Highpoint Shopping Centre – 16 Jul 2013
Design: Grimshaw

photo : Phillip Noller
This 30,000sqm extension to the existing shopping centre building is the first retail centric project by the British architects practice since their acclaimed Sainsbury’s building in Camden, London. The architects “challenged existing retail perceptions by breaking down the traditional inward-looking approach. Importantly, the new Highpoint creates a vibrant public realm with strong connections to the surrounding environment, landscape and community”.

The Yardmaster’s Building – 28 Jun 2013
Design: McBride Charles Ryan Architects

photo : John Gollings
Within the gritty rail yard environment, squeezed between a space formed by the divergence of V-Line tracks at the end of platforms 5 and 6, the Yardmasters Building is a multi-use facility for the various workers and operations associated with the Southern Cross Rail Yard. A service building that in years passed may have been treated in a pragmatic and unremarkable way.

Prahran Hotel, Windsor, Victoria – 20 Jun 2013
Design: Techne Architects

photo : Peter Clarke Photography
The Prahran Hotel is a substantial two storey corner pub with a striking streamlined art deco facade. The rear of the venue had a poorly proportioned, internalised single storey extension and the clients brief for the project called to demolish and replace it with a dramatic double height space with a central courtyard.

Avenue Apartments, Melbourne – 29 May 2013
Design: Elenberg Fraser

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We’ve all heard of a liquid lunch, but liquid architecture? Well, Elenberg Fraser have done it again with Avenue, their latest residential building for Fridcorp, situated on the corner site of Alexandra Avenue and Chapel Street.This is a building of pure phenomena. Like the ripples that spread outwards from skipping stones across a creek, Avenue is a series of pillowy curtain walls that radiate out over the surface. This ripple effect helps the building turn the corner, giving it a picturesque planning outcome; the fluid surface reflects and refracts the suns rays. Like a pool of water, Avenue’s surface is cool in the shade, but flares in the warmth of the afternoon sun.

33M Vertical Village, Melbourne, Australia – 29 May 2013
Design: Elenberg Fraser

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Elenberg Fraser’s new residential project, perfectly positioned at the edge of Melbourne’s CBD, creates a vertical village that follows a story of ascendance and transcendence, inspired by the ancient myths of the angel Metatron (or Enoch, or Elijah) and Pandora’s Box.

Tower Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia – 29 May 2013
Design: Elenberg Fraser

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Right at the top of the hill of the Western end of the CBD, our new residential tower for CEL Australia sits on a corner with pedigree – the great modernists Barry Patten and Hugh Banahan also grace the intersection with their presence and next door is Osborn McCutcheon.

Luna Apartments, St Kilda
Design: Elenberg Fraser

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Luna Apartments – 28 May 2013
It has inspired a dedicated fan web-site, generations of fancy-dress costumes and countless YouTube tribute videos, and now a building. That’s right, Luna, Elenberg Fraser’s new four storey residential project on Barkly St, St Kilda, is based on Princess Leia’s infamous ‘dancing girl’ gold bikini, featured in Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

The Infinity Centre, Melbourne
Design: McBride Charles Ryan

photo : John Gollings
The Infinity Centre Melbourne – 22 Apr 2013
The idea of infinite learning became the mantra. Radiating out from the library, along the length of the form, are specialist precincts and a variety of learning spaces.

Federation Square East – Submission Invitation News

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Federation Square East Melbourne – 2 Apr 2013
Search on for Fed Square East development ideas: The Victorian Coalition Government is exploring options to develop one of Melbourne’s missing links – businesses will be invited to submit proposals to cover the rail lines at Federation Square East.

AAMI Park Stadium Bridge
New sports precinct bridge open for Melbourne Derby

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AAMI Park Stadium Bridge – 20 Dec 2012
Melbourne Park’s new Edwin Flack Bridge is to open this weekend, just in time for Saturday’s grudge match between Melbourne Heart and Melbourne Victory. Minister for Major Projects Denis Napthine said pedestrians will now be able to walk direct from the MCG and Yarra Park to AAMI Park via the fantastic new Edwin Flack Bridge over Olympic Boulevard.

Swanston Academic Building
Lyons

image : John Gollings
Swanston Academic Building – 26 Nov 2012
This new building is an idea about building a vertical campus and drawing the diversity of the city deeply in to the design conception.

Mash House, North Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia
Design: Andrew Maynard Architects

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Mash House North Fitzroy – 14 Nov 2012
The approach taken for the Mash House is one which, despite first impressions, celebrates the backyard. Or perhaps less so the traditional notion of the backyard, and more so just plain, outdoor space. The original deep and dark, double-fronted Victorian house offered a plethora of challenges; not least of all, it’s lack of solar access.