Melbourne Square (complex)

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Melbourne Square
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Towers 1 and 2 (centre) in April 2021
Melbourne Square (complex)
General information
Status
  • Complete (Tower 1,2)
  • Approved (Tower 3,4,5,6)
Location93–119 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates 37°49′32″S144°57′46″E / 37.8256°S 144.9629°E / -37.8256; 144.9629
GroundbreakingNovember 2017
Estimated completion~2027 (tower 3-6)
Cost A$2.8 billion
Height
Roof
  • T1: 231 m (758 ft) [1]
  • T2: 179 m (587 ft) [1]
  • T3: 175 m (574 ft) [1]
  • T4: 175 m (574 ft) [1]
  • T5: 180 m (590 ft) [1]
  • T6: 145 m (476 ft) [1]
Technical details
Floor count
Floor area364,140 m2 (3,919,600 sq ft) (in 6 towers) [2]
Design and construction
Architect(s) Cox Architects
Developer OSK Property

Melbourne Square is a A$2.8 billion building complex of residential mixed-use towers in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Victoria. The complex will be constructed in five stages, with a permit requiring completion by 2031. Stage one of the development commenced construction in November 2017, and was completed in May 2021. [3] [4]

Contents

The complex

The master planned precinct envisions six towers across a 20,260m2 site—two residential buildings now completed (Towers 2 and 3), another residential tower planned to start construction in 2024 (Tower 1), a Build-to-Rent tower planned to start construction in 2025 (Tower 4), and two remaining towers yet to be determined. The complex will be built in five stages, with a permit requiring completion by 2031.

Proposed in June 2015 by the Malaysian property developer, OSK Property, designed by the Australian Cox Architects, with interiors by Carr Design Group, Melbourne Square received planning approval by Planning Minister Richard Wynne on 24 December 2015. [5] [6] [7]

The A$2.8 billion complex is expected to become one of the largest development proposals in Victoria's history, encompassing a total 364,140 square metres (3,919,600 square feet) of floor space. [2] In October 2017, Multiplex had been appointed to construct the first stage of the development, which will include the park, as well as two residential towers, and the new retail precinct; construction commenced in November that year, it was completed in May 2021. [8] [3] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 93-119 Kavanagh Street Complex – The Skyscraper Center. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat . Retrieved 22 June 2020
  2. 1 2 (December 2015). 93-119 Kavanagh Street. Report to the Future Melbourne (Planning) Committee. Retrieved 3 December 2015
  3. 1 2 "Stage One complete on $2.8B Melbourne Square". Inside Construction. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Melbourne Square Tower 1 - The Skyscraper Center". www.skyscrapercenter.com. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  5. ↑ Johanson, Simon. (17 June 2015). "Six more skyscrapers for Southbank under Malaysian developer's plans". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 24 December 2015
  6. ↑ Dow, Aisha. (24 November 2015). "Going up: Another skyscraper for super-dense Southbank block". The Age . Retrieved 24 December 2015
  7. ↑ Schlesinger, Larry and Lenaghan, Nick. (24 December 2015). "Malaysians win approval for $1.5b, six-tower Southbank project". The Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 24 December 2015
  8. ↑ (6 October 2017). "Multiplex Takes On First Stage Of Melbourne Square Project". The Urban Developer. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
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