International firm Benoy has unveiled Kavanagh Street, its competition proposal for a mixed-use tower development in Melbourne, Australia.

Courtesy of Benoy

International firm Benoy has unveiled Kavanagh Street, its competition proposal for a mixed-use tower development in Melbourne, Australia.Set back on the banks of the Yarra River in the Southbank precinct, Benoy?s design is a five-building set or a ?family of towers? on a shared nine-story mixed-use podium, all of which would host 315,000 square meters of residential, hospitality, commercial and retail space.

Courtesy of Benoy

Bringing together corporate offices, lifestyle showrooms, premium high-rise living, a hotel, serviced apartments, shopping, dining, green spaces, facilities and public transportation; the concept creates a vertical urban community.
Courtesy of Benoy

In order to achieve flexibility and meet the changing market?s demands, the proposal additionally incorporates modularity. Each of the towers retains its own identity, and features sky gardens and winter gardens to create ?a necklace of green vertical spaces which connect to the ground level landscape.? 

Courtesy of Benoy

In Singapore, humanising developments is a real priority and introducing landscape into vertical design is a great way to achieve this. We have taken some of these principles and applied them to the Australian setting; working with the wind and solar paths to make these space...