More than 100 new city developments were completed during the pandemic years, including some of Melbourne’s tallest landmarks. Leading architects, designers, advocates and academics rate the 10 most notable – good and bad.
The glass podium at the bottom of the new tower houses Movenpick Hotel, while the rest of the building is apartments.
The corner block, which for decades was a drop-in spot for people to meet and drink at the pub, has been replaced with a ground-level restaurant, chocolate shop and ice-cream bar. Your view into the “shard-like” buildings depends on the direction from which you approach them: in one window, you see a laboratory; in another, a cafe; in another, children at daycare.
“It suffers from feeling like an atrium cradled within a single large building mass rather than feeling like a square with a collection of buildings of different sizes at its edge,” he says. “It feels more familiar to contemporary hospital environments rather than a piece of the city.”: The new kid on the block
Thompson says that, in theory, the “unravelled” podium in this development “rethinks the relationship between tower and ground” and encourages people to walk instead of using a lift via a zigzagged garden to reach the building and its eateries.
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