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.