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“A multitude of uses contained within one skin”: Elenberg Fraser’s Melbourne Towers

“A multitude of uses contained within one skin”: Elenberg Fraser’s Melbourne Towers

At 380 Lonsdale Street in the Melbourne CBD, two towers are wrapped under one elegant architectural exterior. Meanwhile, a new laneway brings a rich mixture of public and private space to street level.

Pushing the possibilities of public housing

Pushing the possibilities of public housing

The homes designed by Tony Owen Partners are always interesting, always unique and are usually likely to spark an aspirational desire to live somewhere better.

This Koichi Takada apartment references its namesake through fluid, organic form

This Koichi Takada apartment references its namesake through fluid, organic form

Referencing both its pine tree namesake and the local surf culture, Koichi Takada Architect’s Norfolk is a 9 level apartment on the Burleigh Heads waterfront.

Y-Loft City by Superimpose counters design convention

Y-Loft City by Superimpose counters design convention

Three Bauhaus shaped multi-residences have brought a hinterland region in China rapidly up to speed with modern urbanity and the lifestyles of the Y generation.

Bean Buro finds resolve for living and working under one roof

Bean Buro finds resolve for living and working under one roof

Bizhouse is the transformation of a mid-century building in Hong Kong into apartments, elegantly designed by Bean Buro to cater for working from home.

Our apartments just aren’t designed for self-isolation

Our apartments just aren’t designed for self-isolation

How do you spend a week in Covid-19 quarantine in a living space designed for you to be out of it most of the time?

Coming full circle: Jesse Linardi of DKO

Coming full circle: Jesse Linardi of DKO

From designing and building his own house in Melbourne’s Preston, to a brand-new development going up nearby some 15 years later, Jesse Linardi of DKO has come full circle. And the appetite for multi-res has changed along with it.