Developer Sterling Global has submitted a planning application for a 70-storey, $700 million mixed-use tower in Melbourne, designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel (design architect) and Architectus (executive architect). The tower, to be located at 383 Latrobe Street, will contain 488 residences and a 196-room hotel.
Developer Sterling Global has submitted a planning application for a 70-storey, $700 million mixed-use tower in Melbourne, designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel (design architect) and Architectus (executive architect). The tower, to be located at 383 Latrobe Street, will contain 488 residences and a 196-room hotel.
In procuring a design for the tower, the developer worked with local, independent experts including Andrew Hutson, associate dean of architecture at the University of Melbourne, and a retired director of Woods Bagot, to generate a long list of 30 international practices for the project.
From the long list, 12 expressions of interest were sought and four practices were shortlisted to participate in a competitive design process. Ateliers Jean Nouvel was chosen, beating Büro Ole Scheeran, Skidmore Ownings and Merrill, MAD Architects.
If constructed, the tower will be Ateliers Jean Nouvel’s first project in Melbourne and the second project in Australia following the One Central Park apartment project in Sydney.
“383 Latrobe Street wants to be welcoming and alive,” Nouvel said. “Behind its great urban gate, passageways branch out and connect to the main streets of the neighbourhood, creating a mini-neighbourhood of laneways and covered porches.”