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3 9803 liberty tower PROJECT type MULti-residential, interiors PROJECT ADDreSS 620 Collins Street, melbourne, victoria australia PROJECT TEAM Client: Pan Urban Council: melbourne City Council Elenberg Fraser: CaLLUM Fraser, Zahava elenberg, Dean Boothroyd, Cassian Lau, Megan Hounslow Documentation: DesignInc Land Surveyor: Reeds Consulting Pty Ltd Structural Engineer: Bonacci Group Pty Ltd Civil Engineer: Bonacci Group Pty Ltd Services Engineer: MacCormack Associates Consultants Pty Ltd Acoustic Engineer: Roy Harding & Associates Pty Ltd Fire Engineer: arup Fire Artist: Stephen Bram time DESign / DOCUMentAtion: 12 months Time CONStruCtion: 24 months Project cost: AUD $90m gross Floor AREA: sqm The Western fringe of Melbourne s CBD was a different place in the 90s. Colloquially known as the Gdansk end, in answer to the designer boulevard of the East End s Paris end, this was before Docklands, before Southern Cross Station: it was the CBD s gritty underbelly. The sheer aluminium wall of Elenberg Fraser s Liberty Tower became the Western fortress wall of the city, discretely defining the CBD as its own city-state. This wall is a silver sheet that has been hammered until it folds and bends through its balustrades and supports. Appearing poised to slip off the building s angled façade, the perforated aluminium shows the angst and distress of the tower and its immediate environment; the building in collapse. A study tour to Japan focusing on Isogawa s work led to an interest in the Japanese obsession with industrial detailing, seen in the unexpected delicacy of the mesh screens. This permeable quality enables the screens, which extend above and below the slab edges protecting the building from the hard, Western sun, to also be transmissive the opaque walls become transparent when backlit from the apartments inside. An off-form concrete building, Liberty is materiality in its purest form the North face slab is extended to show the raw, unfinished concrete resplendent with plywood markings and nail holes. The Big L shape of the tower s profile can be taken literally, but it also enables the structure two towers wrapped around a lift core one silver and white, one charcoal and green. The dulled silver of Liberty s exteriors is polished and reflected through the mirrored lobby interiors. Inverting the Victorian fear of the void, or great unknown horror vacui the design focuses solely on what is not there as you enter you re suspended in infinite space created by the mirror ring. Like the television show that defined the era it was built in, Liberty s lobby makes nothing out of something the only object in the interiors is a fluorescent light installation by Stephen Bram. As Elenberg Fraser s first CBD tower, it is fitting that the adolescent themes of becoming through identity, destruction and discovery, are contained within Liberty. It is tough and raw, borne of the harsh Western environment it inhabits its bullet-ridden screen stands in resolute defiance to the postmodernist movement.

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8 Liberty Tower MATERIALS, FiniSHES, PRODUCTS STRUCture Walls: Hebel power panel Roof: concrete Windows: double glazed with CUstom aluminium frame Other: natural anodised perforated aluminium balustrades FINISHES Floor finishes: carpet, basalt, ceramic tiles, concrete, latisonic. Wall linings: PLaster board, mirror finish stainless steel, silver mirror Ceiling linings: PLaster board Window treatment: silver aluminium venetian blinds FIXtureS Plant and equipment: central PLant, heating and cooling Sanitary ware: duravit Joinery: linished stainless steel, thassos marble, melteca, glass, mirror, emperite paint finish Hardware: Custom designed Wall insulation: 200mm reinforced concrete Ceiling insulation: 200mm reinforced concrete Other: kludi and Vola tapware Feature lights (in APArtments): by Ism Objects Lobby light: Delta Neon PHOTOGRAPHER ContACT DETAILS Note: all images are provided for information PUrposes only and remain the copyright of the photographer. Please contact the photographer directly for all publishing requests. Peter Bennetts telephone +61 (0) Tony Miller Archiphoto Pty Ltd 8/26 blenheim Street Balaclava vic 3183 Telephone Peter Clarke Latitude GroUP 9 Hillingdon Place, Prahran VICtoria, 3181 telephone + 61 (0) peter@latitudephoto.com.au IMAGES _070924_TM_12 tony miller _090804_pc_01 peter CLarke _090804_pc_03 peter CLarke _070327_pB_01 peter bennetts _070924_TM_10 tony miller _090804_pc_05 peter CLarke _090804_pc_02 peter CLarke _070327_pB_04 peter bennetts

contact Melbourne Level 3, 160 queen Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia Telephone +61 3 9600 2260 Facsimile +61 3 9600 2266 Sydney Telephone +61 2 9600 8455 hanoi

9 contact Melbourne Level 3, 160 queen Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia Telephone Facsimile Sydney Telephone hanoi Villa D-25, The Manor My Dinh Me Tri Ward tu Liem District Hanoi Vietnam Telephone Facsimile mail@elenbergfraser.com

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0314 Huski PROJECT TYPE Hospitality, interiors PROJECT ADDRESS 3 Sitzmark Street Falls Creek, VICtoria Australia AWARDS raia Victorian Architecture Awards Regional Prize Wallpaper* Design Awards Best Ski