November 2007
‘Plus Join with Stockland in Significant Development’
13.11.2007
Society, South Yarra
13.11.2007| Light infused interiors are elegantly clever with space making design touches such as fold up beds, mirrored kitchen splash backs, super smart storage solutions and clean-sweeping wood panelled walls.
This unique development offers a range of inspired spaces to suit a variety of lifestyles and budgets, with the option to customise apartments with a number of stylish interior design features.More than just an apartment building, the design represents an entire new way of living; Society is a new expression for how people are choosing live. Society is nearing completion, with a number of residents moving in from April 2010. The outdoor cinema and Suds laundrette are also due to open in the coming weeks. |
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Tooronga Village Stage 1, Glen Iris
13.11.2007| Tooronga Village will form the new heart of Glen Iris. The development will integrate community facilities, public spaces, retail and commercial tenancies and residential apartments.
The goal is to create a highly connected, interwoven series of programs that generate a critical mass of activity, population and place making. Shops, secure parking and offices combine with cafés and restaurants to open out onto plazas and landscaping. Overlooking this are the private apartments. Careful planning has ensured the maximum number of apartments have city views and a sunny northerly aspect. The architectural expression of Tooronga Village is governed by two archetypal elements; podium and tower. Each is informed by program, site and boundary conditions. The podium is a lifted folding ground plane that recalls an imagined landscape.It is set into the hillside and held up by dynamic sculptural web or tree like columns. Users are able to access the development at multiple levels of ‘ground floor’ entry, continually challenging the notion of what lies above and below. The roof of the podium becomes a ground plane for the towers, restaurants, plazas and gardens. The two apartment towers above form a more reserved backdrop to the public spaces below. The facades are a collection of snapshots of the city skyline they face. Rectilinear forms and frames break down the building faces into a collection of scaled elements rising out of this new urban-suburban village. |
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Tooronga Village Stage 2, Glen Iris
13.11.2007| The proposed ‘Stage 2’ development consists of a linear residential building and multi-deck car park. The residential building accommodates 100 apartments over 3 cores in a single loaded ventilated corridor arrangement and the multi-deck car park accommodates 149 car spaces for the residential building on the 2 lowest levels and 500 CML employee car spaces on the 5 upper levels.
The principal architectural language for the building is characterized by its form. The design employs generous sweeping curves to provide a softer, gentler edge to the site than that of the CML office building. The silhouette of the building is of a stepping nature. At the western end, adjacent to the plaza and looking out over the central park, the built form is at its highest to screen the CML office building behind from view and provide a bookend to the plaza. The steel sections placed on edge and separated at regular intervals allow, if viewed from in front, an open aperture which affords maximum light penetration to apartments and uninterrupted access to views. The steel sections of the balcony treatment, if viewed from an angle however, present a solid face which reinforces the sinuous form of the building behind. |
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Peninsula Golf & Country Club, Mornington Peninsula
13.11.2007| The country club renovation and extension were designed to give the original block building a face-lift, and hence an identity. The slate stone and timber facade were chosen to give the country club a sense of warmth, whilst blending in with the original brick building.
The framing of the facade with the timber cladding frames the outside of the building whilst framing the insider’s view to the expansive golf course and scenery outside. The use of alike materials on both the two ends of the extension, and the existing building works to seamlessly tie the country club together to form a harmonious relationship between the old and the new. |
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