Creating an exclusive office building for Melbourne’s CBD, this project creates approximately 58,000 square metres of premium commercial space while integrating with its urban and heritage setting.
Set back from three heritage-listed buildings in Collins Street, collectively known as the Olderfleet Buildings, the 40-storey office tower rises in a configuration of modules that express the internal organisation of the building.
The tenant-focused design incorporates a vertical village concept, with the tower split into three separate neighbourhoods which respond to specific tenant requirements, providing them with a unique identity within the overall building.
Three expansive client floors with generous floor-to-floor heights and recessed external terraces are introduced between the neighbourhoods, further breaking down the mass of the tower and delineating vertical tenant neighbourhoods within the building.
At ground level, a permeable face to Collins Street creates an active urban frontage that leads to a light-filled lobby, 25-metre-high atrium while providing a through-site connection to Flinders Lane.
Designed as a future-workplace precinct to create a highly flexible, rich urban-community experience, Olderfleet connects workers with the grandeur of Melbourne’s Victorian architecture while providing an internationally recognised new normal workplace that nurtures, supports and engages its occupants.
The initial design for Olderfleet was the result of an internal design charrette, which produced four distinct concepts from Grimshaw's London, New York, Melbourne and Sydney studios.
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"It was a two week design process and was a great chance to showcase Grimshaw’s international reach and diverse architectural solutions. Four very different designs were generated from the same practice and all held true to Grimshaw ideologies."
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw
2023 Award Winner, Civic Trust Awards
2022 Best Building 100-199 Meters, CTBUH Awards
2021 Office – Completed Buildings, World Architecture Festival Awards
2021 Commercial Architecture (Large) Award, Sustainability Awards
2021 Highly Commended, Best Adaptive Reuse, Sustainability Awards
2021 Interior Architecture Award, AIA Victorian Architecture Awards
Client
Mirvac
Area
58,000 sq m
Height
170 m
Status
Complete
Year
2020