Tag Archives: Melbourne

Willow Urban Retreat

Willow Urban Retreat, a wellness centre and wholefood cafe located in Melbourne’s inner suburb of Armadale, is immediately distinct due to its minimalist and serene design. Along with a cafe, [...]

Melbourne Apple store by Foster and Partners meets heavy criticism

Foster and Partners‘ revised design for a flagship Melbourne Apple store in Federation Square has been slammed by planning officers. In a recent report, City of Melbourne officers expressed great [...]

King Bill: a 1850’s terrace, an unused stable and a pocket park

King Bill, a renovation and extension project of a terrace house on King William Street in Fitzroy, wasn’t a simple conversion of empty lot space into excessive private living space. [...]

Melbourne’s Nightingale 1 sets benchmark for residential buildings

Reshaping Residential Development From the team that designed the nationally-acclaimed, sustainable urban housing project The Commons, comes a new model of community-led apartments. Nightingale 1, the first project in Breathe [...]

5 architectural firms working on one campus facelift

Architects: MvS Architects, NMBW Architects, Harrison and White, Maddison Architects, Taylor Cullity Leathlean. Lead Architect: Lyons Architecture Company Bio: Lyons is an architectural and urban design practice based in Melbourne, [...]

First look into five new Melbourne metro stations

Minister for Public Transport The Hon. Jacinta Allan MP has recently released updated images of the Metro Tunnel Project, Victoria’s biggest ever public transport proposal. The brand new Melbourne metro [...]

UNStudio proposes lush ‘Green Spine’ towers for Melbourne’s Southbank

Dutch architects UNStudio’s dizzying imagination shines through in their proposals for the Beulah Southbank mixed-use tower competition, which boasts the novel design element of a ‘Green Spine’ – a plant-filled network [...]

State’s best architecture honoured at Victorian Architecture Awards

Victoria’s leading architects have been honoured by the 2018 Victorian Architecture Awards, with education and public architecture projects dominating in multiple categories demonstrating their significance to the public realm. Across [...]

MEME Design brings relaxation to Melbourne

Minimalistic healing south of Melbourne: Willow Urban Retreat Melbourne Situated just south of Melbourne in Armadale, Willow Urban Retreat is a centre for relaxation and escape. Designed by Melbourne-based Meme [...]

Australia’s tallest tower ever planned for Melbourne

Slim and staggeringly tall, a 60-storey residential tower that may become Australia’s tallest tower ever is proposed to be built in Melbourne’s CBD. Dubbed “Magic,” the tower is planned to [...]

A Melbourne house built over a creek

Earnshaw & Associates Jeffery Street Eco-Friendly House The completed rebuild of a unique, eco-friendly and highly energy efficient house in Melbourne has resulted in an extraordinary sustainable home in an [...]

Sean Dix’s designs are uncomplicated, timeless and thoroughly resolved

Internationally acclaimed designer Sean Dix is known for his perfectly resolved works that are entirely free of excess or complication. Inherently beautiful and intrinsically purposeful, they are a perfect addition [...]

Higher Ground – an award-winning, Melbourne cafe that goes beyond the cliché

Architect:​ Design Office Leading Architects:​ Mark Simpson and Damien Mulvihill Client:​ Nathan Toleman, Top Paddock, The Kettle Black Location​: Melbourne Completion Year: ​2016 Image Courtesy: ​Sean Fennessy Company Profile: DesignOffice, [...]

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Heritage Homes Revived with Modern Design

The latest season of The Block took viewers on a journey through the transformation of five heritage weatherboard homes in Elsternwick, southeast of Melbourne, into stunning modern family homes. With fast-rising [...]

Zaha Hadid’s first Melbourne Tower

Zaha Hadid Architects & Plus Architecture 582 – 606 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia In early 2016, the Victorian Government approved a $300-million tower designed by Zaha Hadid and Plus Architecture. [...]

Emporium Melbourne by The Buchan Group

Project: Emporium Melbourne Team: The Buchan Group Photographer: Aaron Pocock Profile: With 125 years of design excellence, The Buchan Group has a vast global reach extending across offices in the United Kingdom, China, the [...]

Tanderrum Bridge | Melbourne’s Newest Footbridge by JWA and NADAAA

Melbourne’s newest bridge designed by John Wardle Architects, in collaboration with NADAAA was opened in January. The bridge is a pedestrian link between Birrarung Marr parklands and Melbourne Park sports [...]

Look Into 6 Cool Tech Offices by Bates Smart

Start-ups and entrepreneurs are all the rave bringing a revolution to corporate culture. Play and productivity are partners. Cubicles and corridors have been overtaken by an open flow of people and [...]

The Best and Brightest in Home Design: 6 Stylish Houses from Austin Maynard Architects

Creative, audacious and ingenious are all words used to describe one of Australia’s most dynamic group of young designers, Austin Maynard Architects. This collaboration of brilliant minds and craftsmanship have [...]

Fender Katsalidis and the Contemporary Face of Australian Architecture

Founded on the philosophy of innovation through collaboration, Fender Katsalidis has evolved from a Melbourne-centric architectural practice, to a highly awarded, multi-disciplinary international design firm whose work now influences built environment [...]

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Bridges, Vaults and Arenas: 10 Exposed Structures from Cox Architecture

  The Helix Bridge Marina Bay, Singapore Seeking a delicate lightweight contrast to the vehicular bridge, the concept was for a double helix structure which also enabled the integration of [...]

EasyGate from Centaman – Exhibiting Security, Aesthetics and Ease of Use – as easy as 1, 2, 3

6 lanes of Centurion EasyGate LX from Centaman Entrance Control has been installed 321 Exhibition Street, Melbourne. Built in 1990, 321 Exhibition Street has undergone a $32,000,000 refurbishment to make [...]

KONE wins order for Australia 108 luxury apartment building in Melbourne

KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, has won an order to supply 13 elevators to the Australia 108 apartment building development on 70 Southbank Boulevard in [...]

The 2 Girls Building

The 2 Girls Building is a mixed use building that fuses art, photography and architecture. The project explores the relationship between the three disciplines and blurs their respective boundaries resulting [...]