Skyscraper (13+ storeys)
Aquavista Tower: 401 Docklands Drive. New Quay, Docklands
Aquavista is a mixed use strata titled office and apartment building. Completed in 2010 i was one of the first buildings completed behind the waterfront and one of the first office buildings completed at New Quay.
It was completed in June 20071 and developed and anchor tenanted by MAB developer of New Quay with signage rights. The architects were Peddle Thorp and the project cost $52 million.2
- Melbourne’s New Business Address Docklands.com ↩
- Aquavista project profile Peddle Thorp ↩
Seven17 Bourke: 717 Bourke Street, Docklands
Seven17 Bourke is an 18 storey 40,000 sqm 5-star green office building12. Construction began in 2007 and the building was completed and opened in 2011. It was designed by Metier 3 and constructed by Probuild3 as a new home of the Channel 9 television network at a cost of $190 million.
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Neo 200 on Spencer: 200 Spencer Street, Melbourne
Neo 200 on Spencer is an 128 metre, 41 storey 371 apartment residential tower which was completed in 2007. Construction began in 2004 and took almost 3 years. The architects were Hayball Leonard Stent Pty Ltd. The building is broken up into ground level retail, 8 level podium/carpark and tower.
AMP Square: 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne
AMP Square's main tower at 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne viewed from the corner of Bourke and William streets
This 26 storey 113 metre building was completed in 1969. Constructed on part of the site of John Sanderson & Co. woolbroking premises, St. James Building, 111 William Street, a large five storey second empire building which spanned an entire city block.
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Franklin Lofts: 83 Franklin Street, Melbourne
Franklin Lofts is a 31 storey 104 metre 189 apartment residential tower that was completed in late 2001. Designed by architects Peddle Thorp and based on linear Bahaus principles1, the building captured the split level New York style loft in a modernist high-rise building and this is expressed in its exterior with groups of two windows grouped stacked for vertical emphasis and articulated by a shared balcony. The white-black-silver material palette and the rectangular and linear design forms. The top storeys form a silver penthouse which provides a setback silhouette to the building.
Commonwealth Offices. 4 Treasury Place, East Melbourne