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NEWS AUSTRALIA


UNStudio’s ‘Green Spine’ for Melbourne comes out on top


A design proposal for a $2bn+ mixed-use tower in central Melbourne submitted by UNStudio with Cox Architecture has won a competition by its developer Beulah International, who claim it will be Australia’s tallest at 356 metres. The winning ‘Green Spine’ proposal, which forms part of the Southbank by Beulah development, and which beat entries by BIG, Coop Himmelb(l)au, MAD, MVRDV and OMA, was selected by a seven-member jury. Ben van Berkel, principal at UNStudio commented on the win: “For our proposal to be selected by such a forward-focused developer – and from entries by such an exceptional group of our peers is a true honour. From the outset we worked with a fantastic team of cultural placemakers, sustainability consultants, landscape designers, artists and engineers to achieve a fully integrated design.”


Beulah International executive director Adelene Teh said: “Green Spine showed work by a strong, multidisciplinary collaborative team that is a bold, yet thoroughly considered approach to creating a context-driven landmark as an addition to Melbourne’s skyline. In its details, the scheme displays a strong intent for well-considered public and private amenity, and at street level, the proposal displays qualities that will truly transform the public realm by eroding the hard edges that are prevalent in Southbank.” UNStudio’s design proposal aims to “establish a new destination for the Southbank area and Melbourne”. The architects said it centres around a “Big


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Detail – a Green Spine of vertically networked platforms, terraces and verandas”. This multifaceted ‘spine’ is “created by the splitting open of the potential single mass at its core, thereby forming two separate high rise structures and causing them to reveal the almost geological strata of their core layers as they rise above a light-filled canyon,” commented UNStudio.


The towers that emerge on either side will enjoy “porous city views” and “vastly improved contextual links,” while the residences, offices and hotel benefit from increased daylight and access to outdoor spaces. The proposal also features a podium housing a “marketplace” with retail and entertainment spaces and a BMW “experience centre”.


The taller of the two towers will be entirely residential and reach a height of


356.2 metres, with a publicly accessible garden at its top. The other tower at 252.2 metres will house hotel and commercial space. The design “proposes a mixed-use building that is a city in itself,” said UNStudio, with a programme including recreation, retail, offices, residential, hotel and exhibition spaces “integrated into the vertically stepped public infrastructure formed by indoor- outdoor spatial frames.”


Ben van Berkel commented further on the


design: “In addition to providing the towers with a twisting, sculptural silhouette, the Green Spine incorporates a multitude of functions in one fluid gesture.” The architects commented that as the spine directly engages with Southbank Boulevard by bringing people up and into the building, it works to “expand the public realm vertically”.


ADF SEPTEMBER 2018 WWW.ARCHITECTSDATAFILE.CO.UK


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