Eastland Town Square & Realm Library, Melbourne Building, Architecture Images
Eastland Town Square & Realm Library in Melbourne
Mixed-Use Public Buildings, VIC, Australia – Design by ACME Architects
20 Mar 2017
Eastland Town Square & Realm Library
Architects: ACME
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Eastland Town Square & Realm Library

ACME was appointed to design a new town square, a sculptural entrance to the mall (the Shard), a library and civic centre, the David Jones department store, and a Multi-story carpark. The new centre adopts the classical idea of the town square or piazza and rethinks it within a suburban context. An inward-look¬ing 1960?s masterplan has been inverted, creating a series of public spaces to give the entire area an exterior and civic focus.
A new sequence of spaces form a new public heart for Ring¬wood and Maroondah showing that high quality architectural design can create a more dignified human environment where com¬mercial gain can coexist happily alongside civic gain and create real public spaces and facilities for the local community.

Contemporary design is used to frame a variety of functions and spaces in a cohesive visual language. The design of the library, town square, Shard and the David Jones store are of one family, united by a gradient shift of tones, a diagrid structural motif and shared material palettes. The contemporary buildings respond to the local topography and act as a signpost from the road ...