LONDONER has posted this in General Melbourne banter, but it clearly needs a project proposal thread. If Mods would please adjust headings etc as we learn more.
$350 million mega-tower planned for La Trobe Street
Date March 10, 2014
Simon Johanson Property Editor for The Age
A $350 million mega-tower proposed for La Trobe Street will be double the size of any other Melbourne apartment building and the third largest in the world by floor area, if approved. The massive residential skyscraper, the city's largest to date, will house a population equivalent to the small Gippsland town of Foster in its 1343 apartments which are set behind a soaring, fluted, glass exterior.
A listed Singaporean development company UEM Sunrise is behind the project, on a La Trobe Street site opposite Melbourne Central shopping centre. The huge structure will rise 285.5 metres or 82 storeys into the air and dominate the city's skyline. It will dwarf the city's next biggest residential building, which has 701 units and was constructed last year by another offshore developer, Far East Consortium, on Spencer Street's old power station site. Melbourne's tallest building, Eureka Tower, has only 556 apartments in its 297 metres.
The new proposal is likely to further inflame debate about over-development in the city. ''I'm surprised about the scope and size of the building. Someone's trying really hard to break a record somewhere,'' Melbourne City councillor Ken Ong said. ''It's very tall and in a high part of the city,'' Cr Ong said. The tower just scrapes under the city's maximum height limits - by one metre - set by Essendon Airport's PANS-OPS flight path restrictions.
The ''massive explosion of big buildings'' was proving a challenge, architect Rob McGauran said. Large towers should include social and community spaces, he said. ''Effectively we're putting one town in a building … what sort of things would we have in a town of that size and are they available in the building?'' he said. Foster has schools, childcare centres, a hospital and multiple shops. Planning Minister Matthew Guy has shown uninhibited support for tall buildings, recently fast-tracking approval for five large towers with more than 2000 apartments. ''We are aggressively promoting central city growth,'' Mr Guy said at the time. Melbourne is an epicentre for offshore developers ploughing money into apartments.
Another Singaporean developer, Chip Eng Seng, wants to build 1041 units in a $250 million 77-storey tower on the former Carlton & United Breweries site at the city's northern fringe. Neither UEM or its architects Elenberg Fraser would comment.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/35...309-34fgf.html
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$350 million mega-tower planned for La Trobe Street
Date March 10, 2014
Simon Johanson Property Editor for The Age
A $350 million mega-tower proposed for La Trobe Street will be double the size of any other Melbourne apartment building and the third largest in the world by floor area, if approved. The massive residential skyscraper, the city's largest to date, will house a population equivalent to the small Gippsland town of Foster in its 1343 apartments which are set behind a soaring, fluted, glass exterior.
A listed Singaporean development company UEM Sunrise is behind the project, on a La Trobe Street site opposite Melbourne Central shopping centre. The huge structure will rise 285.5 metres or 82 storeys into the air and dominate the city's skyline. It will dwarf the city's next biggest residential building, which has 701 units and was constructed last year by another offshore developer, Far East Consortium, on Spencer Street's old power station site. Melbourne's tallest building, Eureka Tower, has only 556 apartments in its 297 metres.
The new proposal is likely to further inflame debate about over-development in the city. ''I'm surprised about the scope and size of the building. Someone's trying really hard to break a record somewhere,'' Melbourne City councillor Ken Ong said. ''It's very tall and in a high part of the city,'' Cr Ong said. The tower just scrapes under the city's maximum height limits - by one metre - set by Essendon Airport's PANS-OPS flight path restrictions.
The ''massive explosion of big buildings'' was proving a challenge, architect Rob McGauran said. Large towers should include social and community spaces, he said. ''Effectively we're putting one town in a building … what sort of things would we have in a town of that size and are they available in the building?'' he said. Foster has schools, childcare centres, a hospital and multiple shops. Planning Minister Matthew Guy has shown uninhibited support for tall buildings, recently fast-tracking approval for five large towers with more than 2000 apartments. ''We are aggressively promoting central city growth,'' Mr Guy said at the time. Melbourne is an epicentre for offshore developers ploughing money into apartments.
Another Singaporean developer, Chip Eng Seng, wants to build 1041 units in a $250 million 77-storey tower on the former Carlton & United Breweries site at the city's northern fringe. Neither UEM or its architects Elenberg Fraser would comment.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/35...309-34fgf.html
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