Posts Tagged ‘2000s’
Life.Lab: 198 Harbour Esplanade, Docklands
Life.lab is a mixed use eight storey building consisting of 91 offices and apartments designed around an internal atrium.
Construction began in late 2006 by Baulderstone Hornibrook 1 and it was completed in late 2008.2
Designed by architects Moull Murray3, it is inspired by the early 21st Century modern movement.
- 2009 entry – Australian Architecture Awards ↩
- Construction begins on Life.Lab this month. Digitalharbour.com.au ↩
- Life.Lab – The Building ↩
401 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
401 St Kilda Road is a seven storey luxury hotel style apartment building completed in December 2009 at a cost of $30 million constructed by Probuild. The architects were Elenberg Fraser. With just 17 apartments, the building is a boutique development.1
Posted in City of Melbourne, Melbourne 3004, Mid-rise (5-13 storeys) | 
Tags: 2000s, 2009, 2010, 21st century, 7 storey, apartment building, elenberg fraser, modern, st kilda road | 
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Port 1010: 1010 Latrobe Street. Digital Harbour, Docklands
This ground breaking office building set the standard for Dockland’s architectural avant garde.
The building was designed by Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM), known for their eccentric postmodern design and responsible for the original, but not executed masterplan for Docklands. By far its most striking feature is its use of the Café wall illusion on the south and east sides a geometrical-optical illusion in which the orange parallel straight dividing lines between staggered rows of alternating black and white “bricks” appear to be sloped.
Posted in City of Melbourne, Docklands 3008, Mid-rise (5-13 storeys) | Tags: 2000s, 2007, 21st century, 9 storey, arm, ashton raggatt mcdougall, baulderstone hornibrook, black glass, cafe, curtain wall, docklands, illusion, latrobe street docklands, modern, office building, postmodern | No Comments »
Dock 5: 55 Victoria Harbour Promenade Docklands
Dock 5 is a north facing waterfront apartment building which was completed in December 2006. Part of the Victoria Harbour precinct of Docklands it was developed by Lend Lease at a cost of $130 million, the 31 level 92 metre reinforced concrete tower was desined by architect John Wardle and contains 148 apartments.1
- First Residents Move into Victoria Harbour’s Dock 5 – Docklands.com ↩
Media House: 655 Collins Street, Docklands
Media House, opened October 28 2009 by Victorian premier John Brumby, is the latest purpose built headquarters of The Age newspaper, one of Melbourne’s longest running papers. A major feature of the building is its giant digital media screen which faces and open plaza that steps and slopes down to the corner of Spencer and Collins Street.
Designed by Bates Smart1, and constructed by Grocon for Fairfax media group at a cost of $110 million2 it was designed to be a contemporary replacement for the dated old Age offices further down Spencer Street.
ANZ Centre: 833 Collins Street, Docklands