Domain Review Bayside & Port Phillip - June 16, 2021

PEOPLE & PROPERTY OF MELBOURNE

THE D E SIG N E DITIO N

MAKING MELBOURNE OU R CIT Y ’S N E X T L A NDM A RK BUILDINGS

TIME OUT

THE ART OF RELAXATION

SMART WORK

SCHOOLS MAKING A STATEMENT

ACT ONE

CUTTING EDGE OF THEATRE

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It may have been an international journalist who dubbed Melbourne “marvellous” way back in the 1880s but the moniker has stuck and been adopted. Through the city’s tough times, historical and more recent, Melburnians have known there’s much that this city has to celebrate and be proud of. It’s this pride that has kept creativity and enterprise constant, even when the chips are down. In this week’s issue, we take a look at Marvellous Melbourne’s design excellence, and highlight ingenuity and creative endeavour across different fields and specialities. We hope you enjoy it. ●

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t can be difficult to switch off in the modern world. Our phone is constantly pinging with messages, social media notifications and work emails asking us to do that thing we planned to do tomorrow, today. At home, it’s much the same with the everyday chores and life admin required as part of our domestic lives.

Finding a way to escape from it all seems almost impossible, but a selection of Melbourne bathhouses promises that for an hour or two, at least, we can.

“A bathhouse is a neighbourhood place where you can come and bathe with different modalities,” says Mary Minas, who, alongside her business partner Freya Berwick, co-founded Collingwood bathhouse Sense of Self.

“It’s also a place of social connection, a place to come together and share our differences but also unite in the commonalities we all have in our lives.”

Minas was originally drawn to the bathhouse experience in her early 20s when she bathed in the hammam at the Grand Mosque of Paris.

“My French-Tunisian friend and her mum would go every week, and I got to go when I was visiting.

The experience opened up my eyes to what real bodies look like and the different stages of life,” she remembers.

Her first soak left a lasting impression. As a filmmaker, Minas planned to make a documentary on bathhouses through the ages and went on what she calls a “bathhouse odyssey” through Europe, North Africa and Japan, but while she was researching her film, she changed tack: “I thought, I want to bring the bathhouse to Melbourne.”

Minas partnered up with Berwick, and their years-in-the-making bathhouse recently opened in

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Rinse, repeat Collingwood, a place they’ve purposefully built to bring the community together.

“There’s something special about coming to the bathhouse to commune with others,” she explains.

When designing Comma bathhouse in Cremorne, founder Susie McIntosh had one goal: to help people switch off. “Everyone is so busy and stressed, and we all have a million things on, so we just want to help people tune out for an hour,” she says.

Typically the bathhouse experience offers various hot-cold bathing options, where after an initial cleanse, the guest rotates between soaking in a mineral or magnesium hot tub or pool, taking a dip in a cold pool, spending some time in a Finnish or infrared sauna, then tipping a pail of cold water onto themselves to cool down.

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COVER STORY

A city’s architecture speaks to its character, so what do Melbourne’s best buildings – past and present – say about our state capital?

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icking off a handful of what he judges to be among the buildings that established Melbourne as a city of substance, Melbourne University emeritus professor of history Stuart Macintosh says “some, like Parliament House, are obvious; others, like the Queen’s Hall at the State Library of Victoria, are not”.

Macintosh, the immediate past chairman of the august Heritage Council, nominates the elegant 1856 space of Queen’s Hall as signalling Melbourne’s emergence as an ambitious, confident state capital – even if it was still young when the glass-ceilinged facility opened as a public library and museum.

“It was one of the few [in the world] of such a scale placed in the very centre of a city,” he says. “Libraries were the way to use wealth to civilise newcomers”.

The newcomers of the age were the tens of thousands of diggers attracted to Victoria’s gold rush.

“Gold transformed Melbourne and allowed the

building of our Parliament House on a grander scale than any other in Australia,” Macintosh says. “The Royal Exhibition Building has to be mentioned. The second half of the 19th century was the age of exhibitions, and although it’s not a particularly distinguished Joseph Reed building, this is the only exhibition building left in the world.”

Constructed in 1880-81, “it’s an extraordinary statement of international aspiration”.

“Another great building is William Wardell’s Gothic Revival St Patrick’s Cathedral that took 70 years [between 1858 to 1939] to develop in a combination of bluestone and sandstone.”

Macintosh says that, with its many church spires and still perceptible hills such as the Spring Street elevation and even Jolimont and Princes hills, “in the late 19th century guidebooks were describing Melbourne as being a city like Rome that is sited on seven hills”.

One tower that remains unobscured by the 21stcentury high-rise clutter is that belonging to Government House, completed south of the Yarra in 1871. “Modelled in the Italianate style on Queen Victoria’s Osborne House [on the Isle of Wight], it is again beyond the scale of any other government house in other states,” Macintosh says.

Another “extraordinarily fine building” Macintosh knows well is the sublime sandstone Melbourne University residential campus Newman College, designed by Walter Burley Griffin. “It is a wonderful, very specific and imaginative work for which Griffin also designed the furniture”.

These structures were all saying, “We are the biggest and the best!” he says. “To the end of the 19th century, Melbourne kept the lead as the financial and commercial capital of Australia.”

Looking at more recent Melbourne constructions, architect, commentator and presenter of the television program Restoration Australia, Stuart Harrison, contends there are quite a few that argue for Melbourne maintaining the mantle as the nation’s cultural capital.

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The first that comes to mind is “my favourite building and a standout in Melbourne”, Roy Ground’s 1968 National Gallery of Victoria. “So simple but it is a very rich building that takes bluestone and does something different with it,” he says.

Nearby Federation Square (circa 2002) – in his view, “Melbourne’s lounge room” – is another that the founding director of Harrison White Architects nominates as having stood the test of time. “It shows that if you spend the money and do it really well in quality materials, it goes really well.”

ARM or Ashton Raggett McDougall’s two-part redevelopment of the 1934 ziggurat that is the Shrine of Remembrance is admired “as a great piece of work that revitalised a great Melbourne building with four new [semi-subterranean] courtyards”.

“How do you work with such a well-known Melbourne building and make it better? But ARM added a whole extra layer to what is already a wonderful building”.

Though not universally appreciated, the 2010 development of “the big soccer balls”, or geodesic domes, of AAMI Park by Cox Architecture, is, “a great building with terrific digital technology”.

Although the premise of questioning Harrison was to ascertain which of the very recent Melbourne projects he would judge as being worthy of being around in the next century, he admits he is “struggling with the recent completions”.

The most recent work he will praise is John Wardle Architecture’s sensationally original 2019 music academy, The Ian Potter Southbank Centre.

Considering residential work, he quickly adds Breathe Architecture’s 2014 sustainable multiresidential prototype Brunswick development, The Commons, “as having held up very well and given a whole new identity to that part of the inner city”.

Like Macintyre, Harrison also has to range out of town to name projects of such interest and integrity that they will prevail through the ages.

“It’s not a building but a landscape project by TCL [Taylor Cullity Lethlean], he says. Opened in 2006, the outpost of The Royal Botanic Gardens at Cranbourne “has taken a while but it’s turning into a great contemporary landscape project with some wonderful little buildings within it”.

Another project “not many people know about” and that they wouldn’t automatically associate with the idea of great Melbourne buildings is Robert Simeoni Architects’ Seaford Lifesaving Club.

“It is a wonderful timber community building,” Harrison says, “by a wonderful architect, that has aged really well. It’s a great example of the kind of buildings we need more of.” ●

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lued to our screens for lavish shows such as Bridgerton or The Crown, we’ve grown accustomed to scene-stealing outfits.

Behind the bright lights and glamour of the Melbourne Theatre Company is a team of creative people who research, design, source and sew those sparkling costumes that appear on stage.

In a nondescript building in Southbank, away from the theatres, lies the MTC headquarters – the place where sets are made, costumes are designed and dreams are sewn into life. Racks of clothes spill out into the corridors of the costume department, a vast space containing thousands of outfits from previous shows.

Wardrobe manager Keryn Ribbands juggles the different productions with a staff that can range from eight people on a standard play to 40 on a fullblown period drama.

“Our biggest challenge quite often – particularly on a period show – is meeting the budgetary guidelines,” Ribbands says.

For period shows, hats play an important role and the MTC has milliner Phillip Rhodes, who is known for his beautiful creations. In An Ideal Husband, he made a hat for Lady Markby (played by Gina Riley) and a matching one for her dog.

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In the next office, Jurga Celikiene often spends 50 to 60 hours making a wig for a character. First the wig-maker chats with the designer and director to see what they want, she sources the hair (yak hair is particularly good) and then measures the actor’s head. Hand-knotting the strands is the really timeconsuming part. Rhodes also takes care of jewellery and Celikiene does make-up.

Costume-maker John Van Gastel, who comes from a family of tailors, is working on a “tear-away” outfit for The Truth. A quick change is required during the play so the shirt, jacket and trousers are sewn together as one piece with two big zips at the sides so the actor can be unzipped in seconds.

Awaiting a return to the stage is the Broadway comedy The Lifespan of a Fact, about the battle over truth and the value of storytelling. Starring Nadine Garner, Steve Mouzakis and Karl Richmond, it looks at the experience of an intern at a literary magazine. While contemporary, costume designer Kat Chan sketched every clothing detail.

After searching books of fabrics and swatches,

Ribbands finally sourced a special blue fabric for the editor’s trousers from Western Australia.

Not surprisingly, Ribbands believes costumes are integral to the success of a show.

“If an actor doesn’t feel they’ve got the right costume, or feel comfortable in their costume, they are not going to give their best performance.” ● THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT \ Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre ● mtc.com.au

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ART & DESIGN

In plain sight

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hen Yarraville artist Maree Clarke goes on a 1000-kilometre road trip collecting roadkill between Melbourne, Mildura, Broken Hill, Hay, Deniliquin and back, she makes sure there are a few portable coolers in her car.

“If you see a dead roo on the road, you have to stop; that to us is gold,” says Clarke. “I’ll spend five days collecting dead animals and a week preparing them when I return. You always need the Esky, or that smell will seep through the car and won't leave if you don't seal it properly.”

Clarke, a Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta, and BoonWurrung/Wemba Wemba woman, is a senior curator and exhibition manager at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne and does art mentoring via the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency. She has spent the past three decades reclaiming south-

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From 1 July 2022 food and green waste bins will be emptied weekly general waste bins will be emptied fortnightly.

Recycling and hard waste services are not changing.

Why we are changing Thanks to the 30,000 households using our food and green waste recycling service, Bayside’s waste going to landfill has dropped to record lows.

At the same time: food waste still makes up 36% of general waste bin contents waste charges are increasing as landfill sites fill up and costs rise smelly food sitting in food and green waste bins for two weeks concerns many residents households recycling their food waste via the food and green waste bin report their general waste bins are half full we want to do more in response to the Climate Emergency and reduce Bayside’s emissions.

We are switching collections to encourage residents to put more of their food waste into the food and green waste bin.

If you are not already using the food and green waste service, sign up at bayside.vic.gov.au/GoGreen

east Australian Aboriginal art and cultural practices – sharing elements lost through colonisation. Retrieving dead animals is part of that, but her output is much broader.

Now, a major retrospective Ancestral Memories at the NGV’s Ian Potter Centre celebrates her artistic work. It’s where you’ll find many of her art jewellery pieces that incorporate kangaroo teeth, river reed and echidna quills. But this is not art for fashion’s sake – her connection to culture and land runs much deeper.

Clarke’s work covers photography, printmaking, sculpture, jewellery, video and glass. In the exhibition, rarely seen black-and-white photographs that bring to life key figures and events in Melbourne during the 1990s are on show, plus lenticular prints and photographic holograms. New

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We are seeking community feedback to help plan future waste services following the switch.

This includes developing free, tailored services for residents with specific waste needs who meet eligibility criteria.

Take our survey today yoursay.bayside.vic.gov.au/waste-collection Pick up a paper survey at* Bayside libraries Bayside seniors’ centres Bayside City Council, 76 Royal Ave, Sandringham Come to a drop in session* We will be at Bayside libraries, farmers markets and shopping centres. *Subject to Victorian Government COVID-19 restrictions.

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work includes Born of the Land Next Generation, which features 11 of her nieces and nephews.

“I have been pushing for the past 30 years to put Victorian Aboriginal art on the map,” Clarke says.

“It would be great if people could look in their own backyard before looking north and try to recognise what is happening in the south-east – it’s still like we're still invisible,” she says.

Indigenous art curator Myles Russell-Cook says Clarke should already be a household name but hopes the retrospective will introduce her work to more people.

“The exciting thing about what Maree does is bridge the dialogue between the historical and the contemporary,” he says Myles Russell-Cook. “She takes customary practices and reimagines them in a contemporary way.” ● Maree Clarke is on a mission to put ‘invisible’

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Transformative spaces EDUCATION School buildings are becoming sophisticated.

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eflecting light from a contemporary glassed entrance, the new building at St Leonard’s College in Brighton East is a professionalstandard performing arts centre designed by ARM Architecture, of Melbourne’s Hamer Hall and Recital Centre fame.

The Leonardian Centre is the piece de resistance of a $57-million school extension, which also includes 11 new classrooms, a lecture theatre and an underground car park.

“We wanted something iconic, something with wow factor,” says St Leonard’s principal Stuart Davis. “You often see cars stopping for people to have a better look.”

A co-educational independent school, St Leonard’s College joins a growing number of

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Australian schools engaging high-profile architectural firms to modernise and energise their learning spaces and facilities. But it’s also about more than simply turning heads, cautions Davis.

“We are focused on bringing quality performances to bayside, to benefit the local community,” he says.

“But also, to give our students access to these performers so they can learn from them.”

It’s a sentiment Ian McDougall of ARM Architecture says resonated with the firm.

“We are engaged in the arts, and we are a great fan of the role the arts play in being a fully rounded human being,” he says.

Along with the challenges of designing a space that can host traditional school functions as well as professional music performances, ARM also had to

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consider the existing school buildings and the surrounding streets.

“A building has two responsibilities,” McDougall says. “One is that its interior must function and work to meet every functional demand, but it also has a responsibility on the outside as a citizen in the city of buildings.

“And that’s where we try to get to when we’re working on a design. That a building’s community embraces it when it’s first done, and the embracing continues because it continues to work and it fulfils that need in the community.”

That yearning for connection, and an evolving appreciation for how architecture can aid learning, is responsible for the rising sophistication in educational architecture, says Australian Institute of Architects national president Tony Giannone.

“Recently, there has been a focus on the quality of learning spaces as we’ve become more aware that quality design leads to quality learning,” he says.

On the other side of Melbourne, Research Primary School is also feeling the transformative power of good design. A collaboration between

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architects Kennedy Nolan and the Victorian Schools Building Authority has led to the upgrade of its junior school, shortlisted in the 2021 Victorian Architecture Awards.

Dated classrooms were replaced with rooms that embrace fresh air and natural light, opening onto each other for collaborative learning. “There are glass doors everywhere, and the kids can spill

outside and learn outside of their classrooms as well,” says principal Fiona Vale. “It all just makes so much more sense; it’s beautiful.”

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heads his own design studio, Urban Commons, while also being the design director of Kett – the Australian furniture label of Cosh Living, which offers a range of designer furniture sourced locally and internationally.

Hutchinson joined forces with Cosh directors Colin Kupke and Shane Sinnott in 2016. In the past five years, over 210 unique products have been released by the brand.

Kett furniture is designed in Melbourne and predominantly made in Australia. Inspiration is drawn from the Great Ocean Road coastline, which Hutchinson distils into Kett’s distinct lines, shapes, and colour palettes to capture an unmistakable Australian sensibility.

The coastal grasslands of Johanna Beach are referenced in the Johanna Occasional Chair – a classic piece that reflects the rolling green landscape adjacent to the iconic Victorian coastline. Similarly, the elegant proportions and refined timber form of the Otway Dining Table reflects the giant forests of Cape Otway. Both items are exclusively made to order by Kett in Melbourne.

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“We call it furniture for walls,” says Hutchinson.

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“The material selection, the grade of timber and the methods of production have been amazing, and we continue to raise the bar.”

Kett is also distinguished by its lack of interest in trends, refusing to adopt the common business model that sees seasonal collections released multiple times a year.

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LOCATION \ Take the waterfront Yarra Promenade to walk to the city, Southbank, Arts Precinct or Botanic Gardens. There’s a tram stop outside and Southern Cross and Flinders Street stations are nearby. ●

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FEATURE HOUSE ELWOOD \ 6A COLERIDGE STREET 3

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This elegant design by Mills Gorman Architects brings superb contemporary living to an iconic location. Here, among Elwood’s tree-lined poets’ streets, natural materials and an interesting play of textures combine to create a warm and sophisticated home.

It begins at the facade with a clever interplay of linear forms, polished rendering and black accents, and continues inside with polished concrete floors at ground level and oak floors upstairs. Brick walls, timber features, and textured glass are presented in a sophisticated palette of soft and medium greys, black and white.

Entry to the home is impressive – past a wall of Vintec wine fridges to the stunning living, dining and kitchen area.

To the side, with glass sliding doors, is a flexible area – lounge, guest room or study with a built-in desk.

Rounded forms in the kitchen are repeated in the living room joinery. The kitchen, with Miele appliances, is a striking contrast of timber storage and white Corian island bench.

Adjacent to the kitchen is the combined butler’s pantry and laundry.

The living room has a gas log fireplace and a wall of blackframed glass to the tiled entertaining area and smart-phone controlled pool.

Upstairs is the bedroom floor. The main bedroom has a large en suite with twin basins, an oval bath and oversized shower, and a deep walk-in wardrobe. The curves in the kitchen and living room are echoed here in the timber vanity unit and a clever window in the bedroom gives views to the

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Two children’s bedrooms, both with built-in wardrobes, share the family bathroom with its separate soaker bath and

“EXCEEDS ALL EXPECTATIONS FOR QUALITY, CREATIVITY, ARCHITECTURE AND

shower, and a light court floods this level with sunshine.

ORIENTATION. BREATHTAKING BY DESIGN AND PERFECTLY LOCATED.”

The house is rated six stars for energy and has underfloor heating in bathrooms and living areas, airconditioning, security and solar panels. The garage has space for one car and another can be parked in the driveway.

It is zoned for Elwood Primary School and Elwood College and close to the beach. Transport and Elwood village are close by. ● BEVERLEY JOHANSON property@domainreview.com.au Agent: Chisholm & Gamon, Sam Gamon 0425 702 574 Price: $2.6 million-$2.7 million Expressions of interest: close 11.30am, June 25

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FLINDERS \ 145 MUSK CREEK ROAD 5

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vast expanses of glass give the abode

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dining area has a fireplace and faces north.

an earthy, airy vibe. The main bedroom

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Two sets of double doors open to the rear

suite is spacious, and two of the minors are privately situated in the guests’ wing.

deck and garden with car access. The

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house is zoned for Albert Park College and

Tree greens and sea blues dominate the

Entertain al fresco on the wraparound

views available pretty much throughout

deck and terrace, and cool off in the

Set on a block of about 323 square

restaurants and Gasworks Art Park. The

this house, but enjoyed most extravagantly

sensitively integrated pool. Various farming

metres, this double-fronted weatherboard

beach is nearby. ●

from the first-floor sky room, with its bar

accoutrements are included. ●

Victorian is in an excellent location and

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and balcony. Flaunting a contemporary,

Albert Park Primary and close to cafes,

architecturally exceptional and lavishly

potential. Off the central arched hall

appointed residence on about 22 hectares

are four bedrooms, one with a built-in

of rich farmland in an area sought after by

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just needs a few touches to fulfil its

wardrobe and all with marble or timber

Victoria’s elite, Cypress Estate takes some

Agent: Kay & Burton,

open fireplaces, followed by the bathroom

Agent: Marshall White,

beating for a refined, semi-rural lifestyle.

Tom Barr Smith 0438 368 020

and a smart new grey and white kitchen

Damian O’Sullivan 0418 566 916

The designer, builder and landscaper come

Price: $14 million-$15.4 million

with a full-height pantry, excellent storage

Price: $3 million-$3.3 million

with accolades. Use of stone, timber and

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and premium appliances. The living and

Auction: 12.30pm, June 19

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in the dining room. Reached through the

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large butler’s pantry. The main bedroom

lounge and the large, main bedroom, the

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patio makes the perfect perch for sunset

has a huge walk-in wardrobe, balcony and

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drinks. As a permanent domicile, city/

en suite with bath, double shower and double basins. The house has high-tech

Adorning the bay end of Fitzroy Street,

beach retreat or cut-above Airbnb, this

An innovative and uncompromising

features, a basement garage and zoned

Summerland Mansions oozes 1920s poise

pad shines for historic form, cross-century

transformation of this grand arts and crafts

climate control. ●

while lapping up unthreatened beach and

functionality and location. ●

bungalow puts the main living areas on the

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Catani Garden vistas. Coddled centrally on the first floor, apartment three is

views over Port Phillip Bay. At ground level

roomy and looking good. Jarrah floors,

are three bedrooms, a retreat and living

high ceilings, multi-paned windows and

area. On the first floor, accessible by lift or

latticework doors consolidate its enduring

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first floor to take full advantage of sunset

the walnut and marble staircase, the living

cachet. The kitchen and bathroom are

Agent: Belle Property,

and dining area opens to a long terrace

Agent: Belle Property,

stylishly updated. The separate laundry has

Andy Nasr 0422 029 324

and looks out to the heated lap pool and

Todd Newton 0412 568 313

a door to a rear, external staircase. There’s

Price: $1.195 million-$1.295 million

spa. The kitchen is beautifully designed

Price: $9.5 million-$10.5 million

a fireplace in the lounge and bookshelves

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with Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances and a

Private sale

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ST KILDA 2/3 Bundalohn Court DISTINCTIVELY DECO METRES FROM ST KILDA BOTANICAL GARDENS In a world of its own yet so close to an array of lifestyle amenities, this Deco apartment with extralarge garage is a secluded secret. Imbued with warmth and character, the interior incorporates living/dining, refurbished kitchen and bathroom with a vintage vibe. Metres from St Kilda Botanical Gardens, and an easy walk to transport, the beach and celebrated Acland and Carlisle Streets.

AUCTION Saturday June 26 at 12.30pm VIEW See website for details

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Margaret Duncan 0417 382 686 Tony Pride 0417 300 056 Julian Cannata 0424 717 913

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A SPACIOUS TREETOP RETREAT WITH VIEWS Sharing secure intercom entry with only 2 other apartments in a block of 6, this first-floor apartment pairs effortless comfort with intoxicating lifestyle appeal. Enveloped by trees, the layout features balconied living/dining and separate kitchen.

AUCTION Saturday June 19 at 02.30pm VIEW See website for details

Julian Cannata 0424 717 913 Brittany Holley 0434 374 428 Andy Nasr 0422 029 324

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JAW-DROPPING. Sweeping views from the city skyline to the bay will have you in absolute awe, a picture frame aspect from every room which is truly magical. This fantastic top-floor penthouse apartment showcases true house proportions, across approximately 140 square meters internally and assisted by 135 square meters of an amazing wrap around terrace for outdoor entertaining. Low maintenance, privacy and security are key attractions, in this boutique and low rise Port Melbourne development, ‘Bianca’.

• Master bedroom with walk in robes, balcony access, ensuite bathroom with double basin, separate shower and bath • Bedrooms 2 and 3 feature built in robes and balcony access • Sparkling 2nd bathroom • Central powder room • Laundry room • Fully appointed modern kitchen with island bench and breakfast bar • Open plan kitchen, dining and living area 135 square metre (approx.) wrap around terrace EXTRA FEATURES • Security entrance with video intercom and swipe access • Ducted and zoned reverse cycle heating/cooling • Secure undercover garage parking for three cars • 2 storage cages • Access to communal landscaped gardens and BBQ area • On-site building manager

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