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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

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THE ART OF RELAXATION

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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. The idea is to move at your own pace. Now, that’s relaxing. ● ● sos-senseofself.com; commaspaces.com

Sense of Self, Collingwood (& left)

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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?

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.

“A great building with terrific digital technology.” - STUART HARRISON

THEY BUILT THIS CITY Wo r d s

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The Commons in Brunswick by Breathe Architecture, above & below; AAMI Park stadium by Cox Architecture, main.

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

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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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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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’

MAREE CLARKE, ANCESTRAL MEMORIES \

Victorian Aboriginal art

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Transformative spaces EDUCATION School buildings are becoming sophisticated. Wo r d s

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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

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.” Architect Patrick Kennedy notes building for children is particularly appealing because “of the potential to shape the way they understand space, light, sound and materials - childhood memories can be so formative and positive”. ●

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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. “I think that’s something that people are really looking for; a brand that not only tells an Australian story but also supports Australian design and manufacturing,” says Hutchinson. More recently, Kett released the Frame Living System – their largest

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FEATURE HOUSE TOORAK \ 60 HOPETOUN ROAD 6

After 25 years and many excellent parties, concert promoter Michael Coppel is ready to bid farewell to his estate. The listing of the 3066-square-metre property is expected to lead to Toorak’s highest sale since 2018, when e-commerce boss Ruslan Kogan paid $38.8 million for a mansion on a smaller block. Coppel made a canny investment – he paid $5.75 million in 1996 to live in Hopetoun Road, where the median price is now about $20 million. The CEO of Live Nation Australasia and his family have revelled in the park-like grounds, which contain a northsouth tennis court and a north-facing pool, terrace and pergola. The mansion, colonnaded and imperious, looks like a Victorian museum. Yet for all its Beaux Arts grandeur, it’s surprisingly easy-going. You could imagine Pink (one of Coppel’s favourite performers) chilling here during one of her extensive Melbourne concert seasons. Formal living and dining rooms offer elegant venues for entertainment, but towards the rear are cosy hang-outs including a poolside retreat. Upstairs are five bedrooms and a gym. There’s a basement bedroom suite with its own entrance. A lift connects the three levels, which include a rooftop terrace. The hall is in marble inlay below a chandelier and leafy, wrought-iron staircase. To the left is the carpeted living room, which has french doors and full-length windows to the front patio. The dining room, across the hall, seats 16 at the Coppel banquet table and is sumptuous in silk and marble below

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stone island, a second island with appliances and a butler’s pantry. The retreat has its own bathroom. On the first floor, the zoned main bedroom has a dressing room and fully tiled granite en suite with a spa bath. Bedrooms two and three have en suites and two further double bedrooms share a large twin bathroom and powder room. ● ALISON BARCLAY property@domainreview.com.au Agent: Marshall White, Marcus Chiminello 0411 411 271 Price: $30 million-$33 million Expressions of interest

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for entertainment in all seasons, it has

Living, dining, kitchen, meals and sunroom

carpeted living-dining with sliders to a

make an open plan with masses of french

Agent: Kay & Burton,

balcony at the front. The huge family

Agent: Kay & Burton,

doors for breeze, and there is a business-

Andrew Hines 0400 630 630

and meals area (gas fireplace) opens to

Scott Patterson 0417 581 074

friendly study. The granite kitchen has

Price: $12.5 million

the north-facing courtyard garden and

Price: $3.7 million-$4 million

a Smeg stove and walk-in pantry. Five

Private sale

the solar-heated pool. The stone kitchen

Contact agent

TOORAK \ 4/547 TOORAK ROAD

appointed laundry. Both bedrooms have en

KEW \ 68 STUDLEY PARK ROAD

renovate, rebuild or redevelop,” says agent

suites and walk-in wardrobes plus there’s

a powder room. In the basement, there’s

Mark Josem. The 1750-square-metre

parking for three vehicles and a powered

block has no heritage overlay and is zoned neighbourhood residential schedule three,

Taking up half a floor, and one of only eight

storage room, which adds to the lock-up-

Retaining the charm of the past, or with

offering the option of subdivision in the

within the low-rise boutique Grantham

and-leave lifestyle appeal. ●

an eye to the future, this leafy corner block

desirable Studley Park locale, which is only

with three street frontages offers plenty of

three kilometres from the city. ●

JOANNE BROOKFIELD

building, is this brand new apartment. “The quality and proportions from the kitchen

options. As it stands, this period home has

and living room to the hallway just exudes

the grand scale (five bedrooms over three

luxury throughout the residence,” says

levels, with a study that could be a sixth

agent Nicholas Brooks. High ceilings, light

JOANNE BROOKFIELD

bedroom and a sitting room that could

timber floors and abundant natural light

Agent: Marshall White Stonnington,

function as a home office) and charming

add to the sense of space in the open-plan

Nicholas Brooks 0419 883 136

details (marble fireplaces and french doors

Agent: Jellis Craig, Mark Josem

living and dining area, which is overlooked

Price: $3 million-$3.3 million

opening onto a north-facing colonnaded

0488 856 736

by a house-sized marble kitchen with

Expressions of interest: close 5pm,

balcony running the length of the home)

Price: $5.5million

butler’s pantry that leads to a fully

June 28

of it’s era. “The opportunity is limitless:

Auction: noon, June 26

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4a 2b 2v 337*r

ARMADALE 28 Fulton Street SUPERBLY RENOVATED & EXTENDED WITH CONTEMPORARY CLASS Painting a postcard-perfect picture from the street, this 4-bedroom, 2bathroom Victorian is pretty perfect on the inside too. Renovated and extended to create modern aesthetics and full-scale family spaces, the layout includes a massive living and dining room commanding centrestage along with a dream kitchen, decked area and a magical undercover alfresco sanctuary. Exclusive cul-de-sac setting. belleproperty.com/st-kilda

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AUCTION Saturday June 19 at 11.30am VIEW See website for details

Sam Inan 0433 076 999 Maria Hunt 0413 187 188 Kyle Spinks 0418 555 333

9855 3333

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24 Northcote Road Armadale 4

A captivating Victorian terrace introduces soaring ceilings and ample family accommodation over two levels, with main en suited bedroom on ground floor. Open plan entertaining features a stone island kitchen opening to an alfresco courtyard with solar heated pool. Presenting three study nooks, three further bedrooms upstairs plus ensuite and a capacious secondary retreat enjoying balcony views. Includes parking. Forthcoming Auction Inspect Land Jodie McCarthy Andrew McCann Armadale

As advertised or by appointment 310 sqm approx. 0438 072 055 0414 643 744 9864 5000

2/72 Adelaide Street Armadale 3

Sophisticated and architecturally designed, this remarkable three bedroom apartment (200 sqm + internal area) showcases light filled living spaces and quality appointments in leafy garden surrounds. Magnificent open plan living spaces offer a versatile layout with study and lush alfresco dining. Also includes ducted heating and cooling, considered storage, study/4th bedroom, two secure allocated parks and intercom entry. Auction Inspect Charles Boyd Kellie O'Neill Andrew Macmillan Armadale

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Saturday 26th June at 12pm Thu 1-1.30pm, Sat 12-12.30pm 0402 275 485 0414 652 231 0418 142 252 9864 5000

10 Maitland Street Glen Iris 3

In an exceptional location with every imaginable amenity within easy reach, this period home sits on a generous allotment of approx 724 sqm, with Malvern Road shops and cafes within a few minutes walk. This family oriented location underscores an opportunity to renovate, develop or design and build a contemporary dream home (STCA). Broad street frontage measuring in excess of 18 mts extends the design potential on this picturesque tree lined street. Forthcoming Auction Inspect Land Matthew Coombs John Morrisby Armadale

As advertised or by appointment 724 sqm approx. 0425 848 776 0411 875 476 9864 5000

28 Farmer Street Richmond 3

Refined elegance by award winning architects Freadman White presents an impeccable design. Oak floors underscore seamless indoor/outdoor entertaining on the second floor featuring a limestone island kitchen with breakfast bar opening out to an alfresco terrace with sweeping views. Showcasing three generous bedrooms two with ensuites, second with study nook and third with balcony. Includes laundry, 6 star energy rating and parking. Expressions of Interest Inspect Elliot Gill James Vine Richmond

closing Tuesday 22nd June at 2pm As advertised or by appointment 0411 863 603 0402 438 271 9428 3333

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Penthouse Collection / 112 Adderley Street, West Melbourne This striking penthouse collection with panoramic views redefine luxury living in Melbourne’s exciting west end. With the opportunity to create your dream property from the current shell, or utilize the existing custom designed plans. 3 & 4 bedroom options range from 127-397m2 approx. of internal living. Featuring marble, timber and brass finishes, balcony, state-of-the art marble/ Gaggenau kitchen, built-in bar, laundry, ample parking, residents’ pool, spa and garden. adderley-penthouses.com 30

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Marcus Heron 0422 822 995 Prestige Homes of Victoria

Michael Paproth 0488 300 800

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