University of Melbourne School of Design News

Cara Brogno, Shane Siy Cha

2nd Skin, University of Melbourne. The 2nd Skin exhibition showcases wearable volumes, deployable envelopes and structures that accommodate the complex geometry of the body. The projects are modeled digitally and fabricated from a 2d cutting template which is output directly through CNC card or laser cutter.

Epping Market Warehouse Project, Melbourne

Melbourne Buildings

The Victorian Coalition Government has announced the builder of a major warehousing development for the new state-of-the-art Epping Wholesale Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Market, Minister for Major Projects David Hodgett said today.

“Hansen Yuncken, an experienced Victorian-based construction company has been selected as the builder of market warehousing at Epping”.

Kew House, Victoria Residence

The extension is an example of responsible rationalisation of a typical suburban house which offers a stimulating environment and demonstrates environmentally sustainable design.

Flinders Street Station – Melbourne

HASSELL + Herzog & de Meuron have won the $1 million international design competition for the redevelopment of the historic Flinders Street Station in the city of Melbourne, Australia.

Flinders Street Station Design Competition

“The response to the People’s Choice vote has been fantastic with thousands of people providing feedback and selecting their favourite design since voting opened last Tuesday,” Dr Napthine said.

The Yardmaster’s Building, Melbourne

Within the gritty rail yard environment, squeezed between a space formed by the divergence of V-Line tracks at the end of platforms 5 and 6, the Yardmasters Building is a multi-use facility for the various workers and operations associated with the Southern Cross Rail Yard.

Prahran Hotel – Windsor Building

The Prahran Hotel is a substantial two storey corner pub with a striking streamlined art deco facade. The rear of the venue had a poorly proportioned, internalised single storey extension and the clients brief for the project called to demolish and replace it.

33M Vertical Village Melbourne residences

Elenberg Fraser’s new residential project, perfectly positioned at the edge of Melbourne’s CBD, creates a vertical village that follows a story of ascendance and transcendence, inspired by the ancient myths of the angel Metatron (or Enoch, or Elijah) and Pandora’s Box.

Tower Melbourne, Australia Building

Right at the top of the hill of the Western end of the CBD, our new residential tower for CEL Australia sits on a corner with pedigree – the great modernists Barry Patten and Hugh Banahan also grace the intersection with their presence and next door is Osborn McCutcheon.

Luna Apartments, Melbourne housing

It has inspired a dedicated fan web-site, generations of fancy-dress costumes and countless YouTube tribute videos, and now a building. That’s right, Luna, Elenberg Fraser’s new four storey residential project on Barkly St, St Kilda.

University of Melbourne Architecture Events

Alan Dilani will introduce the concept of ‘salutogenic’ thinking and illustrate how it can be applied to the design of new hospital facilities. Contemporary health planning and practice has tended to focus on high technology diagnostics and on the treatment of disease.