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The Local Project - July 2022
by Millie Thwaites
Lighthearted and Pragmatic – The Lothian by Kennedy Nolan
We all seek something different in a home. For some, it’s privacy and refuge; others crave connection and liveliness at all times of the day. Kennedy Nolan has acknowledged this with The Lothian in North Melbourne – a speculative residential development comprising an unusual housing mix of townhouses and apartments, each with differing experiential qualities.
The Local Project - November 2021
by Bronwyn Marshall
Intentionally Timeless
Drawing on a contextual richness, The Lothian is an experimental residential assortment, bringing together an unexpected typology within the one form. Kennedy Nolan crafts a series of interlocking homes, linking back to the heritage of the area and reinterpreting the new through the lens of the old.
Together with developer Excelon Projects, Kennedy Nolan proposes the North Melbourne medium density residential formulation as a unique and considered response to context. Occupying its own island site, the complex is bordered by accessible pathways on all of its edges and, although a series of homes within the one form, its bold address of the street has a deceiving quality about it. While the traditional apartment or townhouse arrangement has a knowing front – sense of access and entry – this model pioneers itself as a means to challenge the expected. Encased in warm red bricks, the otherwise monolithic façade is broken by a series of geometric openings, offering a playful engagement with the streetscape. In an area known for its historically rich and preserved heritage homes, The Lothian is a welcomed addition, combining a crafted approach while referencing a material sensibility.
Australian Financial Review - November 2021
by Michael Bleby
The pandemic shows why good design matters
Two very different buildings – an apartment block in Melbourne and a bespoke house in the Blue Mountains – that both offered space and comfort during the pandemic and reinforced the importance of good design took out the country’s top awards for residential architecture.
A North Melbourne project designed by Kennedy Nolan Architects with six four-storey townhouses and two two-storey apartments took out the main award for multi-residential housing, while Peter Stutchbury Architects’ house in Blackheath for an astronomy-loving client in a wheelchair topped the new house category.
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ARCHITECTUREAU - November 2021
2021 National Architecture Awards Jury
2021 Frederick Romberg Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
The Lothian by Kennedy Nolan
Jury citation
The industrial North Melbourne heritage of this project’s locale established the initial idea for this beautiful set of unique townhouses. The external language of red brick is the starting point of a heroic sequence of elevational expressions; considered in rotation, each elevation responds to its individual outlook and requirements. The north elevation, to the busy Arden Street, has limited openings to limit acoustic imposition and achieve privacy. Around the corner on Lothian Street, the west elevation is grounded with a series of arched openings reminiscent of Giorgio de Chirico images, with an upper-level two-storey concrete frame of Giuseppe Terragni simplicity in visual strength and purpose.
The Australian - November 2021
Winners revealed: the top architects in the nation
RESIDENTIAL – MULTIPLE HOUSING
THE FREDERICK ROMBERG AWARD FOR RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – MULTIPLE HOUSING
THE LOTHIAN
Kennedy Nolan
Situated on an island site in North Melbourne, the Lothian consists of six four-storey strata titled townhouses with roof gardens and two stacked two-storey apartments, one with a roof garden. The design was inspired by the attractive red brick edifices from the golden age of manufacturing found in this old working class suburb, once the most densely populated in the city. Commercial and industrial activities in the area included the Queen Victoria Market, the Metropolitan Meat Market, meat processing, horse stabling, tanneries, manufacturing, railway yards and wool stores. The Lothian retains a sense of warehouse scale and dimensions, converting them into refined domestic use. The exterior of concrete, brickwork, arched windows, oculus windows and playful tile work is a delight. The jury described this development as “a robust, energy-efficient building that acts as a place of beauty and refuge for its inhabitants while offering an innovative alternative composition of a multi-residential building envelope”.
Architecture & Design - November 2021
Architecture news & editorial desk
AIA National Awards recognise exceptional design that adds value to the community
Education and public architecture projects stood out among the winners at the 40th Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards. The 2021 edition of Australia’s most prestigious, peer-reviewed architecture awards highlighted the immense value architects add to their communities through truly exceptional design.
Among projects described by the jury as ‘increasingly rare’ public architecture of great standing, was the Monash Woodside Building for Technology and Design by Grimshaw in collaboration with Monash University.
ARCHITECTUREAU - November 2021
The best Australian houses of 2021
Australia’s best houses, as judged by architects, were revealed at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2021 National Architecture Awards.
Across three residential architecture categories seven projects were recognized ranging from a house for star gazing to a home inside an old hat factory.
ARCHITECTUREAU - November 2021
The winners of the 40th National Architecture Awards
The largest Passive House-certified building in the southern hemisphere was awarded Australia’s highest honour for public architecture at the Australian Institute of Architects 2021 National Architecture Awards.
Marking the 40th anniversary of the awards program, jury chair Alice Hampson said, “These awards attest to our profession’s inventiveness, imagination, pulchritude and multiplicity.
“Collectively, this year’s awarded works exhibit the richness, intelligence, viscerality, complexity, individuality and delight of which Australian architecture is capable.”
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Sydney Morning Herald - October 2021
by Stephen Crafti
Arts & crafts play a part in Lothian Apartments
An award-winning building by Kennedy Nolan Architects is neither an apartment or a townhouse, but a hybrid of both.
For developers keen to maximise the yield of a site, it would have been considerably easier to create cookie-cutter identical floorplans.
Given the location – a prominent island site on the corner of Lothian and Arden streets in North Melbourne – the bar set by the developers Excelon, was considerably higher. “Excelon thought there was a gap in the market for larger dwellings, as well as the need to respond to the many late 19th century and early 20th century warehouses in the area,” says architect Patrick Kennedy, a director of the practice.
Recipient of an architecture award from the Australian Institute of Architects (Victorian Chapter), the unusual and modest site (480 square metres with two laneways and two street frontages), replaced a fairly unremarkable office building.
Australian Institute of Architects - October 2021
2021 National Architecture Awards Shortlist
We are excited to share that our project Lothian Street designed by Kennedy Nolan Architects has been shortlisted for the 2021 National Architecture Awards in the Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing category.
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Architecture & Design - September 2021
The Lothian Building
The Lothian Building is a series of residences developed upon a unique island site in North Melbourne. Inspired by its immediate context, the building harks back to the area’s 19th and 20th century manufacturing era, with Kennedy Nolan Architects adding dimension, meaning, and richness to contemporary architectural expression through memory.
The mix of residences within the tower is diverse, with six four-storey plus roof garden strata-titled townhouses and two stacked two-storey apartments, one with a roof garden.The larger units are able to accommodate families, underlining the building’s versatility.
Archdaily - August 2021
The Lothian Residential Building
The Lothian project draws on an approach to Architecture that is being continually developed at Kennedy Nolan. There are a number of motivations or tendencies in our practice that explain our approach. We want to be contemporary, in the sense that we want to reflect the culture and sensibility of the present. However, we also want to add dimension, meaning, and richness to contemporary architectural expression through memory. Through evoking memory, and through making memorable architecture.
Houses Magazine - July 2021
Houses Awards 2021
We are proud to announce that our development delivered in collaboration with Kennedy Nolan Architects has been recognised in the Houses Awards 2021 - Commendation - Apartment or Unit.
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Think Brick - July 2021
Think Brick Awards 2021 - Top 40
We are proud to announce that our development Lothian Street delivered in collaboration with Kennedy Nolan Architects has made it to Top 40 of the Think Brick Awards 2021
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INDE Awards - June 2021
The Multi-Residential Building – 2021 Shortlist
Lothian is a development on an island site in North Melbourne. The housing mix is unusual, consisting of six four-storey plus roof garden strata-titled townhouses and two stacked two-storey apartments, one with a roof garden. The design was inspired by the North Melbourne context – local examples of nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial buildings – handsomely scaled edifices of manufacturing’s golden age.
ARCHITECTUREAU - June 2021
2021 Victorian Architecture Awards
We are proud to announce that our development delivered in collaboration with Kennedy Nolan Architects has won the 2021 Victorian Architecture Award - Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing
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ARCHITECTUREAU - April 2021
2021 Victorian Architecture Awards Shortlist
We are excited to share that our project Lothian Street designed by Kennedy Nolan Architects has been shortlisted for the 2021 Victorian Architecture Awards in the Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing category.
The Sydney Morning Herald - May 2020
New Hotel
by Nicole Lindsay
The Excelon Group is planning to build a hotel on the corner of Queensberry and Peel streets in North Melbourne, just a stone’s throw from the Queen Vic Market, the universities and the hospital precinct.
Excelon, owned by siblings Kelvin and Rachel Taing, purchased the site from developer Michael Piccolo last September through Savills, paying $5.7 million.
Grand Designs Australia - April 2020
Living a Sustainable Life
by Cassie Haywood
For most people, striving for an eco-friendly lifestyle is a culmination of a number of small actions, whether that’s ditching coff ee cups for a keep cup, choosing to buy second-hand or, for many, going green in your home. There’s plenty of lingo bandied around about passive homes, renewable energy and greywater recycling, but what does that mean? And how do we start?
The Age - April 2020
Ghost of Steamship Company sails on in heritage office
by Stephen Crafti
Credit: Dan Hocking
The ghosts of the Melbourne Steamship Company can still be seen in a now re-berthed, three-level, Italianate building in King Street that it occupied for many years.
The historic building, with its distinctive arched windows, was later occupied by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists.
“That’s when all the partitions came in, along with the faux art deco embellishments during the 1980s,” says architect Patrick Kennedy, a director of Kennedy Nolan Architects.
“Fortunately, there still remained a number of original features,” adds Kennedy, pointing out the rich mahogany staircase.
Kennedy Nolan Architects brief came from Excelon Projects, a development company with an architectural bent.
In the latest ABS Residential Property Price Index, the mean price of residential dwellings in Australia’s capital cities was $660,800, up by more than $15,000 from the last quarter.
Part of the problem, says Legge, is us. We have a preference for big suburban homes, often equating an apartment with a short-term stepping stone that isn’t particularly pleasant or desirable.
“We Australians will happily travel to Europe and admire cities like Paris with plenty of density, plenty of streets and plenty of green spaces on top of buildings,” he told ADR.
Architecture and Design - December 2019
Six degrees of separation: Interview with James Legge
by Branko Miletic
As one of the founding directors of Six Degrees Architects, Legge for the past 27 years taken his firm into a nationally recognised design practice, one that continues to develop ideas around human needs, community, raw materiality and memory.
Legge is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects, sits on the Human Research and Ethics Committee for the Eye & Ear Hospital, is a foundational member of the Nightingale Housing Board, and is currently leading the second Nightingale Model project, in Fairfield and collaborating with Excelon Projects on their 7.5-star NatHERS rating project, Two Eleven Sydney Road Brunswick.
He talks with Architecture & Design about sustainability trends, house style and residential green power ideas.
Herald Sun Real Estate - December 2019
Eco-living trending as buyers look to reduce bills, carbon footprint
Bill and Linda Hansen spend time in their communal vegetable garden. Picture: Jake Nowakowski
Sustainability in housing is rapidly emerging as a primary concern for homebuyers looking to reduce their energy bills.
And for those also keen to reduce their personal carbon footprint, it’s a case of having your cake and eating it too.
A recent finder.com.au survey of more than 7000 Australians found 73 per cent of people looking to buy a home over the next five years were concerned about their carbon footprint.
Herald Sun Real Estate - October 2019
Cool Sustainable Properties for Sale in Victoria
Huge climate change protests and global summits in recent weeks have highlighted the increasing value homeowners place on sustainability.
Jellis Craig Brunswick agent Lisa Roberts said buyers would pay extra for sustainable features including building orientation, insulation, solar panels, cross flow ventilation and glazing.
ARCHITECTUREAU - October 2019
Six Degrees proposes sustainable apartments for Melbourne’s Brunswick
Six Degrees Architects has designed 21 apartments for Sydney Road that bring sustainability to the fore.
The apartments will join a string of similar medium-density, sustainability-focused apartments completed in or planned for the inner-north suburb, including a number developed under the Nightingale model.
Six Degrees’ Two Eleven Sydney Road project will sit next to Austin Maynard Architects’ upcoming Nightingale 3 project, and the design has a similar focus on bringing residents together and fostering community.
BMA - October 2019
Sustainable apartments are on their way to Brunswick, Melbourne
Architectural firm, Six Degrees has designed 21 apartments for Melbourne’s. Sydney Road that bring sustainable living to the forefront of apartment living.
The apartments will join a series of similar medium-density, sustainability-focused apartments completed for Melbourne’s inner-north suburb, including a number developed under the Nightingale model.
Herald Sun & realestate.com.au - September 2019
Brunswick development in former bank to create energy bill savings
by Nathan Mawby
A Brunswick building once home to the Melbourne Savings Bank will live on in a redevelopment centred on savings — for energy bills.
There’ll also be some serious green at the 21-apartment Two Eleven Sydney Rd project in the form of an edible rooftop garden and climbing plants that will cover much of the seven-storey building.
But it’s a central light court with gated laneways and open-air corridors behind the heritage facade that developer Excelon Projects hopes will give the building new life.
urban.com.au - September 2019
Kelvin & Rachel Taing of Excelon Projects discuss buyer demand for sustainable developments
Last year, a SmartMarket report predicted that Australia would maintain its world-leading status in sustainable building practice, as well as showing a further increase of green developments over the next three years. One year down the track, and we're already celebrating the announcements and completions of innovative, eco-conscious new developments on a daily basis.
Urban.com.au had a chat to Rachel and Kelvin Taing of Excelon Projects who have a proclivity for sustainable projects – with their most recent development Two Eleven Sydney Road likely to claim a highly sought-after 7.5 Star environmental rating. The brother and sister duo discuss buyer demand for sustainable developments, market failure when building for investors rather than residents, and which sustainable features add the most value to a development.
The ASEAN Developer - September 2019
Excelon launches its latest Melbourne project inspired by sustainable integrity and local legends
Designed by renowned architect James Legge of Six Degrees Architects, Two Eleven Sydney Road sits above the bustling Brunswick streetscape in an urban oasis filled with verdant shared spaces such as the serene green rooftop garden and light-filled apartments.
Residents will enter from the heritage façade on Sydney Road, through a brick paved ground level corridor to a light court – an internal shaft to the sky above which has been designed to become the green core of the building.
The Fifth Estate - September 2019
Excelon beefs up Melbourne’s green housing stock
Melbourne’s inner north is home to some of Australia’s best sustainable housing projects and more are on the way.
Melbourne-based property developer Excelon Group has joined other developers in the city’s inner-north hotspot of sustainable housing, with a new project that is aiming for a 7.5-star NatHERS rating.
Architecture & Design - September 2019
Brunswick Apartments Aiming for 7.5-star NatHERS Rating
Melbourne based property development company Excelon Projects has announced the launch of Two Eleven Sydney Road, their latest apartment project in Brunswick, Melbourne.
Designed by architect James Legge of Six Degrees Architects, Two Eleven Sydney Road is a 21-unit residential apartment project that blends elements of old Brunswick including a heritage façade, with several modern sustainable features.
Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2019 - August 2019
Kennedy Nolan Shortlisted for IDEA Awards 2019 ‘Designer of the Year’
Shortlisted projects include Excelon’s King Street office for the ‘Workspace Under 1,000 sqm’ category.
A big congratulations to Kennedy Nolan!
The stony frontage of a heritage building on Melbourne’s King Street is punctuated by a bold blue door – the only clue to the immersive new interior within. It is from here that siblings Kelvin and Rachel Tang run Excelon Group, a property development company that collaborates with architects to deliver design-led projects.
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royalauto - June 2019
Melbourne’s Community by Design
Six Degrees is also behind the Clyde Mews project in Thornbury, which incorporates six two-storey townhouses and two units on two large suburban blocks, built around a communal garden. Each dwelling has a parking space, but rather than having a garage adjacent to individual homes, parking is lined up side-by-side at one end of the site.
This not only frees up space at the centre for shared vegie gardens, but also encourages interaction between residents as they walk to and from their private homes.
Domain News - June 2019
Better Apartments Set to Spring Up in Melbourne’s Suburbs in State Government Push
Rooftop gardens or communal gardens have been springing up at projects such as The Commons in Brunswick, one of the best known early examples of sustainable apartments, and the more recent Clyde Mews in Thornbury.
These have been popular with buyers, alongside initiatives such as food co-operatives or incidental meeting places such as clotheslines, said Jellis Craig Brunswick’s Lisa Roberts, who has sold units in both.
Australian Institute of Architects - April 2019
2019 Victorian Architecture Awards - Clyde Mews Shortlisted
Clyde Mews has been shortlisted for the category “Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing”. Congratulations to our architects Six Degrees!
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Sidespace Media - March 2019
by Alison Cheong
Coworking Spaces at the Forefront of Australian Interior Design Awards 2019 Shortlist
From pristine white yoga studios, coworking spaces in warehouses and a tired university bookshop transformation - projects nominated for the Australian Interior Design Awards 2019 are set to face tough competition.
One look at the shortlisted entries could tell you that Victoria is leading the country’s interior design scene with 119 nominations, followed by NSW’s 63 and Queensland’s 13.
In workplace design, Victoria dominates the section with 20 nominations, followed by NSW with 13.
Australian Interior Design Awards - March 2019
25 King: Workplace Design - Shortlist
Dulux Colour Awards 2019 - March 2019
25 King: Finalist for Commercial Interior - Workplace and Retail
Property Observer - February 2019
Excelon's Melbourne CBD shared office space 25 King Collective opens
Excelon has announced the opening of 25 King Collective, a shared office space in Melbourne’s CBD.
Kelvin Taing, Director of Excelon says the Excelon team has moved into the top floor in the premises in Melbourne’s South West CBD area.
Herald Sun - January 2019
by Nicholas D’Urbano
Developer Excelon renovates historic 3-storey building in CBD to create 25 King Collective project
Work has begun to revitalise unsavoury parts of Melbourne CBD.
Developer Excelon has renovated a historic 3-storey building at the South West of town at 25 King St.
25 King Collective is part of a wave of new developments in the area.
inhabitat - January 2019
by Lucy Wang
Clyde Mews eco-village champions sustainable housing alternatives in Melbourne
Melbourne recently became home to Clyde Mews, an inspiring “eco-village” that champions sustainable, community-focused living in close proximity to the city center. Created as an alternative to resource-intensive, car-centric developments, Clyde Mews features attractive, pedestrian-friendly design and energy-efficient housing. Designed by local architecture firm Six Degrees Architects for property development company Excelon Group, the eco-friendly development includes eight contemporary townhouses fitted out with sustainable elements — such as solar panels and water-efficient appliances — inside and out.
King Street, the infamous 2km strip which links Melbourne’s western side of the city to the north, has been undergoing a major revitalisation of late.
You wouldn’t know it yet, but once all plans come together, this much maligned and extensively profiled (not in a good way) part of the city could become not only a vital business hub, but also a thriving arts precinct.
The Age - November 2018
Melbourne CBD's west rejuvenated as flexible office, hotels move in
Brother-and sister-developers Kelvin and Rachel Taing will turn a rundown King Street building into their business headquarters and a boutique flexible workspace as they join the rejuvenation of Melbourne’s once-seedy west end.
What defines a good hotel? The executive director of The Canvas Hotel, Kelvin Taing believes that a good hotel should never be solely defined by the space or facility. One should also consider the convenience and the homeyness of the place.
To this end, Taing engaged local design talents for the interiors of The Canvas Hotel. The 98-room boutique hotel in Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Klang, Selangor emphasises comfort, convenience and local charm, says Taing.
Architecture & Design Sustainability Awards 2018 - October 2018
Clyde Mews: Highly Commended - Multiple Dwelling Category
From the judges: “This residential project impressed the judges with its innovative design, sound sustainability strategy, and range of quantified benefits including reduced energy use, lower water use, a great location with local transport and amenities, and a vastly reduced carbon footprint.”
Indesignlive.com - September 2018
Going green: Sustainability Awards shortlist revealed
The official shortlist for Architecture & Design’s 2018 Sustainability Awards has been revealed. The prestigious awards are the longest running sustainable building awards in Australia and have been showcasing the brilliant work of Australian designers and architects working towards a more sustainable agenda. Architecture & Design sees the importance of this growing sector and an ever-increasing need to innovate for a more efficient and ecologically friendly built environment.
Architecture & Design - September 2018
Clyde Mews: Challenging the typical car-centric housing development
Clyde Mews consists of eight dwellings including six double storey, family-centric townhouses and two units, ranging in size from one to three bedrooms.
This project is the development of two traditional Thornbury housing blocks into medium-density housing. It provides an alternative model to the usual car-centric development of this type. Instead, it delivers a model that prioritises the development of community, shared amenity, sustainability and landscape. The dwellings have also been designed to maximise the site’s orientation to provide energy and water-efficient residences that are sustainable, comfortable and affordable.
Urban - 26 September 2018
Six Degrees and Excelon combine for Clyde Mews
by Laurence Dragomir
The recently completed Clyde Mews is an environmentally focused community comprising six family-centric townhouses and two apartments. Designed by Six Degrees Architects for Excelon Group the project sets a new benchmark for inner city, medium density development.
Located at 80 Clyde Street in Thornbury, the project is at the forefront of sustainable design and construction, with Excelon and its design team working alongside the independent Moreland Energy Foundation Limited (MEFL) to improve its sustainability credentials and minimize waste where possible.
Urban - 25 September 2018
Brick to the future for Lothian Street
by Laurence Dragomir
Excelon Group's Lothian Street development has been designed by Kennedy Nolan to reference the area’s industrial past, with a warehouse style brick façade employed.
Located at 100 Lothian Street, North Melbourne the development comprises six individually designed townhouses and two apartments crafted in collaboration with some of Melbourne’s top local artisans, including family-owned local Victorian brick manufacturer Krause Bricks.
The Fifth Estate - 7 September 2018
Sustainability gathers pace with millennials buying homes
by Poppy Johnston
There is a growing body of anecdotal evidence that people are increasingly prepared to fork out more dollars for sustainable homes and that sustainable homes do better on the market.
The shift is driven partly by soaring energy prices, greater environmental awareness in key demographics, and the transition to an owner-occupier property market as investors fade away, industry observers say.
One developer in Mebourne’s inner north, Excelon Group’s Kelvin Taing, says his company just broke the residential price per square metre sales recordin the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Thornbury thanks to home-buyers attracted to sustainability and lifestyle-enhancing features that they are increasingly prepared to pay for them.
Herald Sun & realestate.com.au - 16 August 2018
Thornbury development with garden heart sets new one-bedroom apartment record
by Nathan Mawby
A THORNBURY development has used environmentally-friendly features and a communal vegetable patch to reset the record books.
The Clyde Mews development by brother/sister duo Kelvin and Rachal Taing has notched the suburb’s top one-bedroom apartment price at $560,000, according to CoreLogic records.
The boutique development at 80 Clyde St, Thornbury has six townhouses in addition to its two one-bedroom apartments, and a communal garden at its heart.
The Australian - 11 August 2018
Townhouses offer right ingredients for success
by Elizabeth Redman
The townhouse trend is gathering pace with a new project in Melbourne’s inner north setting a record price for the suburb.
Popular with downsizers or young families getting into the market for the first time, townhouses have been growing in popularity across demographics.
In Melbourne’s trendy Thornbury, local developer Excelon Group is building the Clyde Mews with six townhouses and two apartments, designed by Six Degrees Architects.
Prices have hit suburb records of $8500 a square metre for the townhouses and $10,000/sq m for the apartments.
Urban - 21 May 2018
Brunswick's progressive apartment design dynamic gains another devotee
by Mark Baljak
Yet another Brunswick apartment development has gone to 'the green side'.
A proposal for 211-213 Sydney Road currently before Moreland City Council is hoping to convert approval onsite for a more typical planning permit to one that includes heightened environmentally sustainable design aspects. Design practice Six Degrees have taken over design duties for the site, replacing what was a failed design and marketing campaign for The Saxon apartments.
Prior to it being offered for sale, The Saxon included 24 apartments within a Rothelowman-designed project. Eventually though the roughly 600 square metre site was put forward for developers to consider during 2017.
A historic four storey King Street office built in 1887 has been snapped up by an owner occupier for $5.4 million.
The property sold in front of a large auction crowd Friday for $700,000 over reserve with bidding starting around $4.5 million.
The vendor, Australian Institute of Radiography, purchased the rendered brick building, with four levels including the lower subterranean floor, for $3.5 million in 2010.
It sold with vacant possession to Malaysian developer Kelvin Taing, whose family formerly controlled WCT Group which is listed on the Malaysian stock exchange.
The Age - 23 April 2014
Housing Model Riffs on Rhythm of the Street
by Stephen Crafti
Six Degrees architects’ Heller Street townhouses in Brunswick received numerous accolades for their unique approach. With an adjacent park shared by residents, as well as the local community, the townhouses broke down the idea of private back gardens.
Architects such as Graeme Gunn, as well as Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, developed alternative housing models decades earlier. “Providing alternative housing models isn’t new. But it’s becoming more important as housing becomes less affordable,” says James Legge, one of four directors at Six Degrees.