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Melbourne Quakers Center / Nervegna Reed Architecture + ph Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 15:00:00 +0000

The Quakers Centre in Melbourne is a renovation and addition to a 1960s office building on the edge of the Melbourne CBD. The building houses the Quaker library, offices and a meeting room that will be used for worship on Sundays and is intended for other meetings during the week, such as the local Islamic community. The site is a triangular wedge of leftover space between the north-south orientated greater Melbourne grid and the city grid, which is rotated approximately 28°. A number of shifting asymmetrical circles have been inserted within the triangular space to detonate the shift between the city and surrounding suburbs, notating an almost subconscious sense of our placement in the wider environment.

Loft Apartment Melbourne / Adrian Amore

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Walls bend and converge in this loft apartment housed in a former butter factory, West Melbourne, Australia.

Australian Red Cross Blood Service Melbourne Processing Centre / DesignInc

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The $90M Melbourne Processing Centre provides the Victorian and Tasmanian chapter of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service with a new state of the art headquarters. The facility is housed within the shell of an existing 1920s warehouse, originally constructed as a Morris Minor assembly factory in West Melbourne. The existing brick warehouse building with varying building heights from one to four stories, required significant work to bring it up to current standards, with the additional overlay of an Importance Level 4* rating as required by the business to operate in the event of an emergency. There is 17,500m2 of accommodation comprised of blood processing and distribution areas, blood testing, with the support of research laboratories, warehousing, office/administration and staff amenities.