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Project • By Jackson Clements Burrows Architects • Offices
T3 Collingwood
Responding sensitively to its rich industrial context, the design of T3 Wellington positively contributes to Collingwood’s urban streetscape and sense of community.The brief stipulated the delivery of a mass timber building at a height that hadn’t previously been delivered within Victoria, Australia.
John Gollings
Tom Blachford
Tom Blachford
Meeting approval authority challenges required extensive consultant coordination and integration, with the team working closely to test multiple grid layouts and extensive fire engineering modelling and testing. Multiple structural and hybrid systems were tested to validate the final design solution. This involved extensive modelling with cost/value outcomes at every step to... More
Project • By Elenberg Fraser • Masterplans
Oxley
Collingwood’s creative energy has a new HQ with the recent completion of Oxley, a celebration of the neighbourhood’s unique energy and diversity. Another collaboration with Tim Gurner and Urban Inc, Oxley is woven into the existing urban fabric of the post-industrial area, as a series of four villa-like buildings and 75 different apartment typologies connected by a network of laneways and courtyards beneath.
Like any neighbourhood known as an incubator for music, art and culture, Collingwood is no stranger to vice. The Oxley photoshoot explores the culmination or genesis of creative life (depending on your point of view) – the party – taking inspiration from one of our favourite extravagant scenes from... More
Project • By Elenberg Fraser • Shops
107 Cambridge
It seems trite to trot out the over-worn truism ‘change is inevitable’: but behind those bland t-shirt logo words stands unyielding fact. The implicit challenge, as architects, is how to effect change in a positive and meaningful way? Honouring the past while whole-heartedly saluting the future, 107 Cambridge Street, Collingwood takes that challenge on the chin.
Located in the former factories and warehouses of Foy & Gibson, this project shares a part of Australia’s history. Melbourne’s first department store, Foy & Gibson was part of the southern capital’s coming of age – a glamourous 19th century style temple on Smith Street that drew on the chic addresses in Paris and the United States, which... More
Project • By Cera Stribley • Residential Landscape
Mac Robertson Lofts
MacRobertsons Lofts will reflect the unique attributes of its Fitzroy location while responding to the needs of those who will live there with a progressive, modern design of effortless appeal. Priceless heritage has been repurposed for a new generation with creative and confident design that marries the character of an industrial legacy with exceptional modern architecture. More