Cremorne Studios, Melbourne Office Design, Retail, Commercial Development, Australian Architecture
Cremorne Studios in Melbourne
51 Queen Street Commercial Development in Victoria, Australia ? design by LAYAN Architects
14 Nov 2017
Cremorne Studios
Design: LAYAN Architects
Location: 51 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
6-storey sustainable commercial development in Melbourne

The building sought to revitalise the existing street character façade by drawing upon the historical identity of the area referencing the materiality of the surrounds and reinterpreting them in an innovative and creative way.

The focus for the design was to achieve a strong, clean, simple aesthetic, which had a sympathetic balance to the history of the neighbourhood.
Off-form textured concrete for the exterior walls, concrete floors and block walls, exposed steel work, structure and services resulted in a building that is honest and unpretentious. The building?s rawness has a sense of charm about it, a quiet confidence in the eclectic neighbourhood in which it sits.

With a 16 meter wide street frontage on William Street to the south, commercial buildings encompass the remaining three sides at low level. The large-scale double glazed windows to the North and South are framed with natural anodized aluminium profiles, creating a vertical order and rhythm running down the height of the building.
A generous 3.3 meter floor to ceiling height creates spacious light filled tenancy?s wi...