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Jun 28, 2010

One East Melbourne
wins top multiple housing award




ARM is thrilled to announce that One East Melbourne received the Best Overend Award for Residential Architecture, Multiple Housing at the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter 2010 awards at a gala ceremony on Friday 25 June.

The Best Overend award is the major prize in the multiple housing category.

The awards jury citation stated:

“One East Melbourne confidently combines an apartment tower genre with a level of critical discourse of ideas of the ‘little tower’ hovering at the fringe of the city’s ‘big towers’.

The dialectic of form and program contribute to a memorable, sculptural building that responds commendably to its various contexts;
Park, Rail-yards and CBD, as well as civic scales; Street, Podium and Tower.


The architecture explores residential living possibilities within a building fabric more often belonging to the office tower. Curtain wall façades contain yet support habitation – facilitating the expansive views from the site as well as contributing to an ‘in-the-round’ form, so often not achieved in the CBD. The façades are at their most exploratory and expressive when responding to apartment planning and operable ‘winter garden’ terraces enlivening the corners. This design develops a significant advancement for multi-residential architecture, through its deft combination of market realities and higher order civic ideas.”

Congratulations to our client Becton and all our project partners for this wonderful achievement.

This year One East Melbourne was also awarded a 5 star Green Star – Office Design v2 rating for the office component of this unique mixed-use residential development located on a once-in-a-lifetime site.