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Tower Melbourne
Mixed-Use Development in Victoria, Australia ? design by Elenberg Fraser, Architects
5 Nov 2017
Tower Melbourne Development
Architects: Elenberg Fraser
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Tower Melbourne

Right at the top of the hill of the Western end of the CBD, our new residential tower for CEL Australia sits on a corner with pedigree ? the great modernists Barry Patten and Hugh Banahan also grace the intersection with their presence and next door is Osborn McCutcheon.

This tower will see Melbourne move from the Mid-West USA city model to a new urban model of pencil thin skyscrapers that occupy minimal footprints whilst still offering all the amenity of towers based on larger podiums.
The 71 storey building is a constantly undulating 3D sculpture. Surfaces wrap around the building and the twisting form allows the building to affect wind forces, avoiding downwash to pedestrian levels; Tower Melbourne is a natural extension of our research into wind modelling, which we have been developing with Vipac.

The program is a vertical city split into four different residential sections, sandwiched by communal floors, which take their identity from the city that surrounds them. The base consists of a retail, food and bar layer, sitting underneath the podium, which houses car parking and townhomes designed by Carr Design. Moving upwards, the next floor is compl...