RE:IMAGINE THE JUNCTION 2015
COMPETITION DETAILS CHALLENGE STATEMENT THE RE: IMAGINE THE JUNCTION COMPETITION AIMS TO RE-MONUMENTALISE ST KILDA JUNCTION, AND RESTORE ST KILDA RD SOUTH (THE FORMER HIGH ST) AS THE LIVING BACKBONE OF THE SUBURB. NOT WITH A RETURN TO THE PAST, BUT WITH THE REIMAGINING OF A NEW AMBITIOUS FUTURE.
RE: IMAGINE THE JUNCTION This competition is about new inner-urban futures – the Future City set within an historic urban fabric. A future fabric that not only meets 21st Century needs but also heals previous injuries inflicted on Melbourne’s inner-urban inheritance. Around 1970, the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works eviscerated central St Kilda. The heart of St Kilda Junction was ripped out. St Kilda’s High Street shopping spine, stretching south, was hacked away and discarded. The wound has never healed. St Kilda Junction and old High St is now hardly more than a soulless, community-dividing traffic sewer. The Re:imagine the Junction competition will aim to re-monumentalise St Kilda Junction, and restore St Kilda Rd South (the former High St) and the Princes Highway as the living backbone of the suburb. Not with a return to the past, but with the imposition of an ambitious future. The study area is bound by Union St to the north, Chapel St to the east, Carlisle St to the south and Princes St to the east. The core of the project is St Kilda Junction and St Kilda Road South, stretching all the way to include the intersection of Carlisle St and Brighton Road.
Study area for analysis as part of Submission 1
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