299 King Street Tower, Melbourne Housing Development, Real Estate Project, Architecture Images
299 King Street Tower in Melbourne
Residential Building Project in Victoria, Australia – design by Elenberg Fraser Architects
9 Oct 2019
299 King Street Tower
Architects: Elenberg Fraser
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

299 King Street Tower, Elenberg Fraser’s new multi-residential project in Melbourne?s West end, responds to the presence of nearby Flagstaff Gardens, Melbourne?s oldest park, by intertwining local stories to represent the origins and future of the precinct. In the mid 19th century, this part of the city was Melbourne?s flourishing commercial centre: a diverse urban precinct home to the Indigenous Kulin nation, Chinese immigrants enticed by the Gold Rush as well as settler populations. This project embraces the distinctive elements of this site-specific identity, creating a thoroughly local architectural narrative.
Like the imposing flagstaff erected on the site to communicate between the town and the port, King Street will anchor the West end?s renaissance, signalling its return as the beating heart of Melbourne. The concave and convex silver glass facades reinterpret the fluttering of the flag against the flagstaff. The moulded form appears as if volumes have been carved out of the tall, slender tower. The undulating curves of the podium echo the rolling hills of this, the highest point of the city, while the park has become part of the buil...