Birrarung
Ideas
Creating authenticity through place, culture and history
Reflecting on a Gray Puksand panel at Melbourne Design Week, Ian Khoo considers how early cultural engagement and co-design can create architecture more deeply connected to place and community.
Project
A new chapter for Melbourne’s North Wharf
Designed by FK alongside One Design Office, 1 Hotel & Homes Melbourne at Seafarers is part of Riverlee’s long-game regeneration of North Wharf and finds its footing in reuse, restraint and a refusal to start from scratch.