PROJECTS

Level crossing removals have been part of Melbourne’s strategy since 1929. With more removals in 2018 than ever before, it is pertinent to assess three of these new projects that strive to extend the public realm.

Marked by fluid boundaries and tilted terrain, Muir and Openwork’s installation is a potent reflection on architecture, experience and the relationship of memory to place.

A companion building delicately grafted into the garden setting of Victoria’s Parliament House realizes the long-anticipated extension to one of Melbourne’s most prominent civic landmarks.

A collaboration between five architectural practices, RMIT University’s New Academic Street revels in diversity as a series of “theatrical stage sets” reinvigorates utilitarian buildings and reconnects them to their urban setting.

John Wardle Architects’ design for the National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural Summer Architecture Commission nods to Melbourne’s modernist past, while also speaking to the new and emerging.

The Ian Potter Sculpture Court at Monash University’s Caulfield campus is a place of stillness and calm.

Callum Morton, Oculus and McBride Charles Ryan deliver an engaging new public artwork in Melbourne’s Docklands worthy of a visit.

A colourful new civic square in Dandenong offers a welcoming and intimate space to its diverse community.

A contemporary pared-back garden that elides the distinction between gallery space and domestic living.

A spectacular garden by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Paul Thompson explores the Australian identity.

A $290 million urban renewal initiative aimed at revitalizing central Dandenong.

A sport and recreation space by Aspect Studios doubles as a backyard for local residents.

A six-hundred-hectare flagship development in Melbourne’s north by Place Victoria, seven years on.

A new residential development on the site of a former airfield base in south-west Melbourne.

Tract Consultants used landscape as the starting point for this new residential subdivision.

Pollen Studio’s coloured rope work ushers in the 2014 True North Reservoir Arts Festival in Melbourne.

A new rail bridge, with pedestrian paths, in Melbourne’s Clifton Hill transforms a formerly grimy space into a public park.

This memorial designed by Katherine Rekaris Landscape Architecture is dedicated to 70,000 Australian ex-servicewomen.

There is much for children and young people to enjoy in Site Office’s collaborative reimagining of these two public spaces.

A bridge and a fabricated concrete creek edge by studio SMLWRLD reveal the benefits of collaborative work.

A rooftop garden by Bent Architecture provides a welcoming retreat from the hustle and bustle of Melbourne city life below.

The City Square is finding its place after years of additions and alterations and not living up to expectations.