Posts Tagged ‘2009’
Northbank Place: 525-565 Flinders Street, Melbourne
Northbank Place viewed from the north west corner of Flinders and Spencer Street
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Northbank Place is a group of three mixed use towers developed between November 2008 and May 2009.
Lutetia: 1-3 Bell Street, Armadale
Lutetia 1-3 Bell Street Armadale viewed from the south
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Lutetia is a prestige 5 apartment triple storey building that tries its best to revive the Tudor style in the 21st Century combining historical styles with modern living. While there has been no shortage of revivals of this style since its origins the 15th Century and the postmodern era, most would be classified as being pastiche, included in that category are many other recent mansions near to Toorak. This effort, while not historically accurate (the eclectic composition includes classical features) it is quite remarkable in its attention to detail.
401 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
401 St Kilda Road
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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
The style is minimalist and modern, however it achieves complexity through its curved and screened street podium which is home to the trendy Cafe Vue atop which sits a compact, setback tower with views across to the Botanic Gardens, St Kilda Road and Fawkner Park.
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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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.
Trenerry On Studley Park: 436 Johnson Street, Abbotsford
Trenerry on Studley Park 436 Johnson Street, Abbotsford. View looking north east from Johnston Street
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Trenerry on Studley Park was completed on March 20, 2009.1
It is a seven storey modernist curtain wall building.
Designed by PDS Group and developed by Investa at a project cost of $25 million, it achieved a 4 star green rating 2.
Visually it has a similar size and design to Bates Smart’s Media House headquarters of The Age on Collins Street.
Crown Metropol: 8 Whiteman Street, Southbank