600 Church Street Building, Melbourne Residential Interior, Victoria Architecture Photos
600 Church Street in Melbourne
21 Jun 2021
600 Church Street
Architects: Wood Marsh
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sitting in contrast to the industrial grit of Cremorne as a progressive commercial building, 600 Church Street reinforces its corner allotment, boldly ascending as a monolithic crystalline glass formation. The building?s faceted outer shell is an intentionally ambiguous interplay with scale. The futuristic form and materiality contrast with the surrounds, accentuating the building?s refined and polished nature against the area?s raw and textured industrial past.

Secondary to the building?s form is the unexpected fine articulation at the ground level where the building intercepts an adjacent laneway. A palette of multi-coloured panels arranged in a concertina pattern picks up on the angles of the facade and connects conceptually to the brilliant refractions within a gemstone. The installation casts reflective light on the narrow pathway, invigorating an otherwise mundane laneway and providing a level of passive surveillance when illuminated at night.
The building is composed of retail and hospitality at ground level, and office tenancies above, leading upward to a roof terrace. The inclining and reclining façade elements deliberately obscure the floor plates they intersect with and act to obfuscate one’s sense of the building?s scale. The measured angli...