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380 Lonsdale in Melbourne

Mixed-Use Development tower in Melbourne design by Elenberg Fraser Architects, Australia

11 Nov 2017

380 Lonsdale Melbourne Building

Architects: Elenberg Fraser

Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mixed-Use Tower in Melbourne

380 Lonsdale in Melbourne

380 Lonsdale in Melbourne

Decidedly cosmopolitan, 380 Lonsdale Street seems to have everything that Melbourne needs. This new project puts the mixed in mixed-use, taking cues from our client to bring a bit of Singapore-style precinct urban planning and a tropical twist to this prominent site in the Melbourne CBD.

380 Lonsdale in Melbourne

380 Lonsdale in Melbourne

One of the first of the new generation of Elenberg Fraser super towers, 380 Lonsdale is actually two towers in one. One houses a hotel, the other apartments, and both are united by a low-level podium with eroded massing that contains separate pods for office space, a business club, dining and health facilities and retail.

380 Lonsdale in Melbourne

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These floating pockets break up the volume of the podium with the functions themselves. On top sits a jungle-like communal garden for hotel and apartment residents, sending foliage cascading down the façade. This untamed, green space includes pocket parks and landscaped areas, a veritable urban oasis.

380 Lonsdale in Melbourne

380 Lonsdale in Melbourne

This isn’t just about the high life though: the building stays down to earth with lots of street level interaction, including an extension of Timothy Lane to create a new café and dining thoroughfare that cuts through the site, adding to Melbourne’s world-renowned laneway culture. This big picture planning means that the line is blurred between street, tower and laneway.

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The forms of the towers appear as silver ripples emanating from the heart of the site. Moulded bay windows – a contemporary update for this classic device give the building’s surface a vertical rhythm, a waterfall that pours into the garden beneath.

380 Lonsdale in Melbourne

380 Lonsdale is an urban intervention that brings a touch of the tropics to Melbourne – and ticks all the right boxes for the city in the process.

380 Lonsdale in Melbourne

380 Lonsdale in Melbourne

Photography: Binyan Studios

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