St Kilda Triangle, St Kilda, VIC
After an international tender process the BBC/Citta proposal, designed by ARM, was announced as the successful bidder for the redevelopment of the St Kilda Triangle Site. The new Triangle, including the Palais Theatre, will be transformed into a dynamic entertainment precinct.
The St Kilda Triangle will be a pleasure garden by the sea featuring a great mix of entertainment, culture and new public event spaces. The landscape design by Taylor Cullity Lethlean integrates the existing park elements of palms and lawn.
At the heart of the Triangle is a $20m refurbishment for the once grand heritage-listed Palais Theatre, enabling rock ’n’roll, film and a great variety of other productions. The refurbishment will meet exacting standards set by Heritage Victoria, while improving access, toilet facilities and air conditioning. The back stage facilities will be fully upgraded and a recording studio is also being added.
The Triangle creates some great new event spaces for the enjoyment of all. New grassy slopes will cover much of the Triangle at the Upper Esplanade level, offering many places to enjoy the bay vistas with a picnic or book. Below the slopes is a new public square, sheltered from the sea breezes, where people can gather. The Upper Esplanade is linked to the beach by the Catani Steps, a wide flowing staircase that doubles as a big event amphitheatre.
The City Of Port Phillip abandoned the project in late 2009.
Hunter Central, Newcastle, NSW
Newcastle and its people have a strong connection to the water, both now and throughout their rich history. Newcastle’s CBD development will promote and celebrate that connection to the harbour and the ocean.
The reactivation of Hunter Street and the network of streets around that major artery will be a key undertaking for the project. With the community’s help, we’d like to restore, rebuild and reinvigorate Hunter Street to encourage a greater degree of pedestrian connectivity between Hunter Street and the other great places that already exist in the city.
The development will create a true urban heart for the Hunter with all of the diversity of uses and interests that categorise great cities. It will offer a complete Hunter experience; one that captures and celebrates the best of this great region and in doing so, ensure that Newcastle once again becomes a destination for people of all ages — both for residents and visitors.
Restoring linkages, promoting pedestrian activity and creating reasons to move between the great places, one of which will be GPT’s Newcastle CBD development, will be a key to restoring vitality and vibrancy to the city’s heart.
This project is on hold while GPT consult with the NSW State Government and other significant stakeholders.
Highpoint Retail Redevelopment, Maribyrnong, VIC
ARM was responsible for the masterplan and concept design of the 30,000m2 North East Precinct of Highpoint. This new stage will deliver a new department store, and a Fresh Food Market and external Market Square. The approach is bold and exciting, introducing a series of themes that add character and quality to the Centre’s internal and external environments.
This “new” Highpoint is a meeting place. A place where the community will gather to socialise and interact, attracted by unique and multi-dimensional spaces; spaces which feel intimate and personal, possessed of a human scale. By creating a place that people will cherish and identify with, it will give present customers reason to visit more often and for different reasons, as well as attracting new patrons to the site. Highpoint will stand apart from other shopping centres, in terms of quality of design, convenience and diversity of attractions.
Another key goal is to foster a synergy with the local community. Promoting strong community ties, engendering support from community leaders and providing something for the community will ensure wider patronage for the shopping centre. Integration of the site into the area’s urban fabric is paramount in achieving this, and part of this task is to begin to externalise the presently internalised mall-centric face of the centre. The addition of the “Market Square” is the first step in providing a new external visage for the centre.
In all of this, GPT’s aim is to instill the centre with a “Melbourne flavour”, straying from bland, boring design and leaning towards exciting, different and daring architectural outcomes. We will also derive inspiration from the best of international precedents, and lead the way in re-defining the shopping centre typology. Throughout this process, design concepts will be tempered with a commitment to sustainability on all fronts (social, economic and environmental).
Greenedge Retail Redevelopment, Greensborough, VIC
The Greensborough Retail Redevelopment will provide new and improved commercial, residential, recreational and retail opportunities for the Greensborough community. In accordance with Banyule City Council and State Government strategies (Melbourne 2030) for improved integration of housing within town centres, a range of diverse housing types are proposed such as “shop top” housing, medium density apartments and individual town houses.
New housing will be sensitive to environmental outcomes and integrate various sustainable initiatives such as rain water tanks, solar optimisation and cross flow ventilation; a place where people will want to live and be proud of their environment.
Links between the Greensborough Plaza shopping mall, Main Street and new facilities clustered around Greensborough Walk and the New Town Square will be designed for accessibility, and for passive safety at all hours of the day and night. Links from the Railway Station to the new Town Square will be equally accessible and legible in the urban environment.
The railway precinct will be enhanced by the future development of a Transport Interchange to provide improved access, transfer and amenity for users of rail and bus services. Opportunities for limited commercial uses associated with the interchange will be explored to widen the range of good and services available at this convenient location.
After an international tender process the BBC/Citta proposal, designed by ARM, was announced as the successful bidder for the redevelopment of the St Kilda Triangle Site. The new Triangle, including the Palais Theatre, will be transformed into a dynamic entertainment precinct.
The St Kilda Triangle will be a pleasure garden by the sea featuring a great mix of entertainment, culture and new public event spaces. The landscape design by Taylor Cullity Lethlean integrates the existing park elements of palms and lawn.
At the heart of the Triangle is a $20m refurbishment for the once grand heritage-listed Palais Theatre, enabling rock ’n’roll, film and a great variety of other productions. The refurbishment will meet exacting standards set by Heritage Victoria, while improving access, toilet facilities and air conditioning. The back stage facilities will be fully upgraded and a recording studio is also being added.
The Triangle creates some great new event spaces for the enjoyment of all. New grassy slopes will cover much of the Triangle at the Upper Esplanade level, offering many places to enjoy the bay vistas with a picnic or book. Below the slopes is a new public square, sheltered from the sea breezes, where people can gather. The Upper Esplanade is linked to the beach by the Catani Steps, a wide flowing staircase that doubles as a big event amphitheatre.
The City Of Port Phillip abandoned the project in late 2009.
Hunter Central, Newcastle, NSW
Newcastle and its people have a strong connection to the water, both now and throughout their rich history. Newcastle’s CBD development will promote and celebrate that connection to the harbour and the ocean.
The reactivation of Hunter Street and the network of streets around that major artery will be a key undertaking for the project. With the community’s help, we’d like to restore, rebuild and reinvigorate Hunter Street to encourage a greater degree of pedestrian connectivity between Hunter Street and the other great places that already exist in the city.
The development will create a true urban heart for the Hunter with all of the diversity of uses and interests that categorise great cities. It will offer a complete Hunter experience; one that captures and celebrates the best of this great region and in doing so, ensure that Newcastle once again becomes a destination for people of all ages — both for residents and visitors.
Restoring linkages, promoting pedestrian activity and creating reasons to move between the great places, one of which will be GPT’s Newcastle CBD development, will be a key to restoring vitality and vibrancy to the city’s heart.
This project is on hold while GPT consult with the NSW State Government and other significant stakeholders.
Highpoint Retail Redevelopment, Maribyrnong, VIC
ARM was responsible for the masterplan and concept design of the 30,000m2 North East Precinct of Highpoint. This new stage will deliver a new department store, and a Fresh Food Market and external Market Square. The approach is bold and exciting, introducing a series of themes that add character and quality to the Centre’s internal and external environments.
This “new” Highpoint is a meeting place. A place where the community will gather to socialise and interact, attracted by unique and multi-dimensional spaces; spaces which feel intimate and personal, possessed of a human scale. By creating a place that people will cherish and identify with, it will give present customers reason to visit more often and for different reasons, as well as attracting new patrons to the site. Highpoint will stand apart from other shopping centres, in terms of quality of design, convenience and diversity of attractions.
Another key goal is to foster a synergy with the local community. Promoting strong community ties, engendering support from community leaders and providing something for the community will ensure wider patronage for the shopping centre. Integration of the site into the area’s urban fabric is paramount in achieving this, and part of this task is to begin to externalise the presently internalised mall-centric face of the centre. The addition of the “Market Square” is the first step in providing a new external visage for the centre.
In all of this, GPT’s aim is to instill the centre with a “Melbourne flavour”, straying from bland, boring design and leaning towards exciting, different and daring architectural outcomes. We will also derive inspiration from the best of international precedents, and lead the way in re-defining the shopping centre typology. Throughout this process, design concepts will be tempered with a commitment to sustainability on all fronts (social, economic and environmental).
Greenedge Retail Redevelopment, Greensborough, VIC
The Greensborough Retail Redevelopment will provide new and improved commercial, residential, recreational and retail opportunities for the Greensborough community. In accordance with Banyule City Council and State Government strategies (Melbourne 2030) for improved integration of housing within town centres, a range of diverse housing types are proposed such as “shop top” housing, medium density apartments and individual town houses.
New housing will be sensitive to environmental outcomes and integrate various sustainable initiatives such as rain water tanks, solar optimisation and cross flow ventilation; a place where people will want to live and be proud of their environment.
Links between the Greensborough Plaza shopping mall, Main Street and new facilities clustered around Greensborough Walk and the New Town Square will be designed for accessibility, and for passive safety at all hours of the day and night. Links from the Railway Station to the new Town Square will be equally accessible and legible in the urban environment.
The railway precinct will be enhanced by the future development of a Transport Interchange to provide improved access, transfer and amenity for users of rail and bus services. Opportunities for limited commercial uses associated with the interchange will be explored to widen the range of good and services available at this convenient location.
ASHTON RAGGATT MCDOUGALL
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Phone +61 3 8613 1888
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PTY LTD
Level 11, 522 Flinders Lane
3000 Melbourne
Phone +61 3 8613 1888
Fax +61 3 8613 1889
Employees
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1986 Partners
Stephen AshtonHoward Raggatt
Ian McDougall
Tony Allen
Specialisation
ArchitectureMasterplanning
Urban Design