34‐40 Eastern Road is an eight‐storey office development, with retail at ground level. The proposal brings together the design principles of sustainability, urban connectivity, and social activation through a high‐quality and sensitive architectural response. It talks to the future of the South Melbourne precinct by setting a precedent in considered materiality and form.

This project features a charcoal brick podium and natural anodised upper form which steps back from the street, allowing for extensive planting across the external terraces. 

The project brings a variety of commercial programs to a diverse and changing urban context. A mid‐size food
and beverage tenancy offers an extension to the low scale Bank Street, street frontage, commercial and café strip. Office spaces allow a mixture of small to mid‐size tenancies to be located on the upper floors, each featuring access to private terraces intended to provide social spaces as well as defining a series of informal workspaces with the use of soft and hard landscaping.

Traditional Owners: Bunurong People

Client: Fortis

Landscape: Openwork

Visualisation: CUUB Studio