The proposed Southern Development Site / Gurrowa Place is located on the sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Eastern Kulin Nation, whose culture is ingrained in the Country. The site occupies the zone between Peel Street and Queen Street and is held by the Queen Victoria Market car park to the north and Franklin Street to the south. This prominent block sits adjacent to Flagstaff Gardens and is accessed by bus and tram networks and private vehicles utilising the market car park.
McGregor Coxall joins the design team headed up by NH Architecture alongside Kerstin Thompson Architects, 3XN Australia, Searle x Waldron Architecture, Openwork, McGregor Coxall, Lovell Chen, and Urbis.
The site is characterised by its link to the Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne’s cultural and retail centre. The heritage market provides great inspiration for imagining this new piece of public Melbourne. This extension of the fine-grain network of public laneways will be a dynamic mix of the city’s mercantile past and its ecological city a place of exchange, exchange between old and new, landscape and architecture and country and sky. The ground plane, which stitches together the development site, is a love letter to material Melbourne, woven from the city’s fabric and deployed to represent the diversity of the streetscape experience.
Year |
2024 |
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Site Area |
3.2 ha |
