Urban design and infrastructure architecture lead on the Hoddle Vision team developing integrated transport options for Hoddle Street, a major arterial road on the eastern edge of Melbourne’s CBD.
Urban design and infrastructure architecture lead on the Hoddle Vision team developing integrated transport options for Hoddle Street, a major arterial road on the eastern edge of Melbourne’s CBD.
Winning scheme in a two stage open international design competition for a new opening bridge for Auckland Harbour.
With the key criteria of design quality and innovation, the design incorporates innovative engineering and operational features to create a unique and iconic bridge structure.
The bridge responds to the visually active harbour context and distant views with large scale, distinctive sculptural form and an elegant profile. Its vertical support mast creates a permanent gateway and orientation marker, and its deck splits in two, as it rises, sweeping apart to come to rest in a V configuration.
The bridge’s three primary elements of differing length and width form an asymmetric composition which, viewed from different locations around the harbour, creates an infinite range of juxtapositions as the bridge moves towards the mast.
In association with Hyder Consulting.
Competition design for a pedestrian/cycle bridge spanning the Brisbane River between the Brisbane CBD and the Arts Precinct.
A proposal for 40 kilometres of freeway including 30 road bridges and six pedestrian bridges.
This proposal, a design for the underbidder for a major freeway Public Private Partnership, balanced the dynamic freeway driver’s experience with consideration of the equally important community and precinct environment (unbuilt).
All elements in the 45 kilometre long road were designed: bridges (pedestrian and vehicular), noise walls, tunnel portals, exhaust stacks, landscape, earthworks and ‘gestures’.
Denton Corker Marshall’s competition design to redevelop an existing mainline station to obtain a world class transport interchange.
A limited competition design for an underground station, bus and ferry interchange, and associated urban design for four blocks at the centre of the Auckland waterfront. The proposal included detailed design guidelines for the urban blocks and concept design for the transport facilities.
Architects in association: Archimedia
Architectural design study for an integrated international and domestic airline terminal development at Sydney Airport.
The study explored the operational, spatial and volumetric potential of the proposed terminal and developed an indicative architectural concept. A Design Feasibility Report and Design Control Brief were prepared. The design proposed visual and physical connection of arrival and departure via a central atrium, a high degree of transparency throughout the terminal and a landmark image.
Governor Phillip Tower provides 56,000m² of premium office accommodation, elevated on a podium above the site.
The tower’s polished grey granite shaft and cap of slender stainless steel fins puncturing the skyline, draw the eye and the mass of the building upwards, divorcing the tower from the 19th century reading of the street.
The sandstone podium absorbs and reinforces the street level context of heritage terrace houses, and the Chief Secretary’s Building and Education Department Building on either side.
Governor Phillip Tower is known in the real estate industry as one of Australia’s most lettable buildings, in terms of its quality, and the economy and flexibility of the floor plate design.
A 57 level, 130,000m² office building, set mid-block in Collins Street, Melbourne’s premier commercial address.
The tower is set back from the Collins Street frontage with a podium level that defines the footpath edge and relates to existing street scale development.
The tower is of polished grey granite, articulated by four symmetrical framed glass buttresses projecting from the tower, but stepping back to the façade at the upper levels.
The podium and tower provide 82,000m² of net lettable area plus associated car parking for 1,325 cars (425 in the basement and the rest in a separate car parking building).
The project also included the restoration and conversion of two existing historic buildings.
As with Governor Phillip Tower, 101 Collins Street is also recognised as one of the most prestigious and lettable buildings in Australia, due to designs that combined remarkably flexible floor plates with timeless architectural expression.
A 30 level, 33,500m² office tower with basement and podium carpark, ground level retail and residential space.
The design demanded sensitive handling of building scale, texture and form. The tower sits over a textured masonry podium and consists of four flush-glazed corner shafts welded together by a decorative steel grillage of balconies that form a crown at the top.
The articulation of the heavily textured grillage with the slick flush glazing of the corner shafts, reduces the visual impact of what is a relatively bulky form.
No 1 Collins Street represents one of the earliest post-modern office towers developed in the Melbourne city centre, helping influence as well as inspire many of the larger projects built in the 1991 property boom.
The award-winning tower broke new ground during development and in its planning initiatives undertaken in close liaison with the National Trust and the Planning Ministry. Its enduring success reflects a conscious sensitivity to the historical and cultural fabric of the city.
Denton Corker Marshall was shortlisted in an international design competition for the landmark Tianjin Super Tower featuring high-end office space with tenants’ amenities including conference facilities and a retail podium.
Denton Corker Marshall was selected by Allied London to develop the architecture and interior design of the existing property at 28 Savile Row, following a limited competition of concept ideas for the building’s regeneration. The site is located at the north end of Savile Row, on the corner of Clifford Street, west of the Regent Street conservation area.
Denton Corker Marshall was invited to submit a proposal for an office tower on a prime site in Singapore’s financial district.
The proposed 40 level, 77,100m² design optimised efficiency with typical floor plates of around 2,000m² net lettable area. Entry off Cecil Street is conceived as a lobby-in-the-park, taking advantage of the adjacent redesigned public open space.
Redevelopment of 259 George Street Sydney, creating a bold new visual identity for the existing 45-storey tower.
This proposed tower located on Calle Cervantes Saavedra No. 251 and 253 comprises 19,350m2 of commercial space above ground, 19,000m2 of basement space and ground floor retail, terraces and plaza.
A 28 storey commercial office tower in the central business district of Jakarta with the Allianz insurance company as the anchor tenant.
A large scale multi-level retail/commercial mall of 430,000m2 providing leisure, shopping, health clubs, entertainment facilities and a major hotel.
A landmark commercial tower forming part of Grocon’s masterplan for the Carlton Brewery site in central Melbourne.
Expressed as a tall flanking element, Building 4, the largest in Grocon’s masterplan, provides a new long distance marker for Melbourne’s civic spine which stretches from the Shrine of Remembrance through the heart of the city.
At around 50-storeys, the building provides some 85,000m² of commercial office space with the potential for a hotel and / or apartments on the upper floors, subject to planning approval.
The design features a simple language of ‘sticks’ to create a series of closely spaced, slender towers that will generate arresting views from the surrounding streets and public spaces. A distinctive crown to the tower will be created by eroding the tops of selected sticks providing a highly memorable silhouette on the northern city skyline.
A two-stage developer-led design competition for the redevelopment of the Parliament Square city block.
Redevelopment of an Adelaide CBD site from light industrial to mixed use.
A series of powerful architectural elements is set in a landscape formation – a unique response not only to the design of a podium, but also to the prevailing climate of Dubai.
The towers, which accommodate the office, hotel and residential uses, become striking complementary forms that integrate and appear to grow naturally out of the podium. The overall composition can be perceived as three distinct elements: podium, cluster office tower, residential/hotel towers.
The concept proposes a living and working environment that layers activities vertically in a sequence progressing from private living / work areas through a privileged interactive zone to areas fully accessible to the public.
A contemporary and innovative commercial building for the fringe of Melbourne’s CBD with views to the Yarra River and beyond.
Mixed use redevelopment of a CDB site associated with a new underground rail station and adjacent heritage fabric.
Competition to design a multi-use complex including retail, upmarket residential accommodation, commercial office space and basement carpark. The development includes two towers, one residential with a height of 100m, and the other commercial with a height of 180m. The retail element is located in a podium building.
A trade and cultural showcase for China. The development incorporates two iconic towers, a low rise podium and an extensive landscaped Chinese garden with pavilions which is integrated into a wider river and woodland environment.
Denton Corker Marshall was commissioned to prepare a new urban masterplan for the former 20 hectare site of Brisbane Expo ’88, located on the south bank of the Brisbane River, looking north towards the city centre.
The objective was to integrate South Bank as a living part of the city and to re-engender its internal coherence. The masterplan focussed on the removal of its existing negative features to provide a large revitalised area including approximately 15 hectares of parklands and 5 hectares of street space and development parcels. The linear site divides naturally into three spines: a river spine, a park spine and a street spine.
The strategy was to fill in an existing canal and replace it with a grand arbour running the length of the site; reinstate Grey Street as a functional two-way street; build Little Stanley Street overlooking the parklands; open up other streets and vistas; and build a pedestrian bridge across the river.
1,120 unit multi-storey residential and office / SOHO development in Beijing’s central business district.
Competition design for a Chinese telecommunications company.
Design competition for an uban office complex for a competitive telecommunications client.
The development consists of an elegant tower apparently rising behind the historic Herald and Weekly Times (HWT) building. The historic building is preserved for three structural bays behind the facade, with the creation of a striking atrium space that provides excellent address to the tower from both Exhibition and Flinders Streets.
The architectural form of the tower is based on the idea of breaking up its bulk by expressing it as four tall slim glazed elements sliding past each other. The open frame at the lower levels separates the tower from the HWT podium. The stepped form of the tower elements at the top creates a distinctive building signature which makes this building an exciting addition to the eastern precinct of the CBD.
An ‘A’ class commercial office development comprising two modern office buildings of twelve and nine floors forming a unified architectural composition. The project includes three floors of underground parking and at ground level a floor of retail.
Submission to invited limited international competition for a tall tower/signature development of mixed commercial, hotel and retail space.
The headquarters of a regional bank in south west Poland, comprising a 9 storey tower and a general office building of 5 floors.
A 33 level premium office building of 40,000m2 elevated above historic buildings. The building provides a range of amenities including retail shops, cafes, restaurant, bar and public space. The project included the refurbishment and restoration of existing heritage low rise buildings and integration with an adjacent landmark building owned by the client.
Concept design for a 750m high landmark tower set in an extensive mixed use waterfront development comprising offices, residential, hotel, tourist facilities, retail and leisure plus parking.
A feasibility study for an office tower in Melbourne’s central business district
Amongst the world’s tallest towers at 560 metres, this ground-breaking design was proposed as part of the Melbourne Docklands redevelopment. The tower has 120 levels and a 108 metre light pinnacle.
The project incorporates 28 floors of commercial office space, 450 residential apartments, a 320 room, 5 Star hotel and associated retail facilities.
An eleven storey office building in the heart of Melbourne’s financial district.
A masterplan for the development of the Australian War Memorial to allow for the siting of a series of new buildings within the highly sensitive war memorial precinct, centred on the land axis at the end of Anzac Parade in Canberra.
The masterplan proposed a composition of three new buildings wrapping around the back of the Australian War Memorial, each intently designed with deference to the existing landmark. Over a 26 year period, the buildings, along with other studies, were progressively realised by Denton Corker Marshall.
The first was the Administration Building. The rectangular plan form of the building contains a central courtyard on two levels with a half-basement. The fan-shaped Anzac Hall comprises a long solid concrete wall that tapers dramatically to a thin edge at each end and the C.E.W. Bean Building, housing archive and research facilities, is a concrete block monolith bedded into the landscape behind an existing stone embankment.
Creation of an urban hub with multiple functions including services, retail, financial, government and residential precincts, capturing the distinctive characteristics of the urban lifestyle of southern China. With a total gross floor area of over one million square metres, the 31 hectare site is divided into five areas.
The largest is reserved for residential apartments (including SOHO), along with retail and public amenities. Commercial office buildings, a hotel and serviced apartments sit on a landmark site on the main road, whilst a heritage village is restored and integrated into a neighbourhood food and beverage precinct.
The masterplan aims to create a vibrant urban centre with attention to human scale, civic spaces for quality living, and connectivity to surrounding streets and transit facilities. The design allows flexibility for phasing and implementation strategies.
A series of covered walkways runs around the edge of each site – a modern approach to the traditional five foot covered walkway. Clear definition of retail frontages along major streets activates the public realm.
A study of one of the most sensitive areas in Shanghai to provide guidelines for future development.
The masterplan considered views, pedestrian movement, vehicular access and transportation including ferry, future metro and bus routes. Its strategic objectives were to optimise key connections to the waterfront and public park open space system; manage and improve physical and visual connections between the river and inland zones; enhance continuity of the waterfront, both visually and physically; and create a landmark development within the city.
The design proposed a high degree of site permeability with a rich pattern and scale of urban spaces including a total of 28,000m² of urban open space. Development components included 169,000m² of high grade office accommodation. This was arranged in eight smaller office buildings of eight to 10-storeys, reflecting the scale of the adjacent historic Bund buildings, together with a 38-storey landmark office tower. In addition, the precinct includes a 5 Star hotel of 109,000m² and 32,200m² of retail and mixed-use space.
Masterplan of Sunshine 100’s International New Town located on a 266 hectare riverside site in Chengdu.
The mixed-use development comprises residential, SOHO, retail and commercial components totalling over 800,000m².
Concept design for stage one comprising 247,000m² gross floor area and a central green with six 19 to 20-storey towers, leading to signature Gateway Towers marked by a linking beam, was also completed. These towers are clad in a distinctive screen inspired by traditional Chinese screens.
Changsha International New Town is the southern part of Yuelu University Campus Town.
In 2003 Denton Corker Marshall created the masterplan for the southern section of the Campus Town, consisting mainly of accommodation for the University’s academic staff and students.
The project consists of:
– six long slab / atrium buildings placed along the main road, each containing 432 apartments over six levels;
– 13 mid-rise slab blocks and;
– a 70 metre wide grand plaza, bordered by shops and a clubhouse, and an eight lane, 50 metre swimming pool, forming the centre of the public recreation zone.
Subsequent stages have been completed in accordance with the masterplan.
A new urban centre on the Yangtze River facing the Chongqing central business district designed to service the growing inner urban population.
The development comprises 1,200,000m² living, office, retail and leisure space with around 12,800 apartments.
By 2010 around 690,000m² gross floor area has been completed in various stages to Denton Corker Marshall’s design.
The Nanning Gateway is a strong statement for visitors travelling into the city from the airport. Viewed while pulling away from toll gates, the design presents a pair of monumental sculptural flowers flanking the freeway.
However, driving along the route, one of the flowers deconstructs into a series of petals projecting from the embankment to the right. It is revealed to be an optical illusion, an assembly formed from the precise visual alignment of separate elements spread over several hundred metres.
This transformation of static sculptures changes the gateway into a dynamic space/time experience, exploiting the unique opportunities available to the moving observer. This approach is quite different to a static installation.
Each petal becomes an individual sculpture in its own right, constructed from coloured, perforated metal panels to be partially transparent, creating a sense of movement from the moire patterns formed by the perforations.
The Ringwood Town Centre Study involved an integrated town centre proposal reinforcing the link between Eastland Shopping Centre and a new upgraded modal interchange based on nearby Ringwood Station.
Residential, commercial and education uses are planned to be the main drivers, in conjunction with the required retail expansion of Eastland Shopping Centre. A street based urban framework is proposed together with an open space link.
Major uses include 45,000m² of retail over four levels, along with 19,000m² office, 16,000m² hotel and 33,000m² residential space.
A major civic and arts precinct on the principal ceremonial axis of Melbourne, created to celebrate the centenary of Australia’s Federation in 2001.
Denton Corker Marshall was one of five practices shortlisted to participate in the second stage of the international competition for a new complex at the edge of Melbourne’s distinctive city grid. The designed proposed four integrated areas – a new civic square, a modern wintergarden, performance and exhibition facilities, and a cinematic centre.
The centrepiece of the design was a 100 metre transparent steel and glass tilting tower. A symbolic gesture containing only a viewing platform, it paid respect to the cathedral spire adjacent and the nearby tower of the Arts Centre. It would become an urban icon /marker for Melbourne focussed on a narrative about the Federation of Australia.
A series of studies examining planning, building and landscape options for the land axis and Parliamentary Triangle Zone between Lake Burley Griffin and Provisional Parliament House, Canberra.
These design studies explored the relationships of buildings – the High Court, National Gallery, National Library and proposed Archives Building – to a eucalypt-lined vehicular mall with grassed central axis, and the lakeshore edge as a pedestrian promenade.
In association with Tract.
The Bluewater Events Venue is one of the United Kingdom’s premier retail and leisure destinations.
Denton Corker Marshall’s purpose built 5,200m² space creates a distinct new architecture, carefully integrated into Bluewater’s existing design.
The Venue has an individual identity, distinct but complementary to the mall in form, location and experience. The new space includes a 3,000m² central plaza, 12 restaurants totalling 4,000m² together with the existing 12 screen cinema.
A sinuous over-sailing roof and feature Gallery ‘beam’ tie the composition together externally, as well as give focus to the internal plaza approach route.
The modelling of the ceiling plane internally links the plaza into the existing mall via the rotunda.
In 1986, Denton Corker Marshall won first prize in a competition run by the National Gallery of Victoria to design a silver table centrepiece.
The design explores the contemporary centrepiece as an organising element for a table setting. It consists of three thin parallel tubular wedges in silver, 1,200mm long, supporting a tray and various abstracted forms made from sheets of silver plate and anodised aluminium. A vase and salt and pepper pots are incorporated, and the base can support a range of other items. The silver wedges, inlaid with a grid of flush monel dots, rest on randomly strewn coloured aluminium sticks.
The result is an architectural object of poetic shapes and cantilevering sculptural forms, rather than a recognisably domestic one. It is part of the National Gallery of Victoria’s permanent silverware collection.
The practice was invited to design a simple porcelain coffee cup and spoon.
The cup, entitled ‘Presto’ contains the dynamic oval theme, with the handle expressed as a single charcoal stick wedged into the white form. The spoon is a folded stainless steel strip of the same width as the handle.
Design of a new electronic tagging device for cars using the new toll roads in Australia. As part of the design advice to Transurban, Denton Corker Marshall has designed a new electronic tag to be placed on car windscreens to allow them to be electronically tolled when using the company’s toll roads in Australia. The existing tag was re-interpreted to take the shape of a black tube. This form allows it to fit discretely along the top edge of the car windscreen.
A tea and coffee setting for Alessi that stands as a tower – a micro skyscraper for the table.
The setting comprises six primary elements: coffee pot, teapot, milk jug, vase, sugar bowl and tray.
The lid/bases link the elements and change the way they sit, whether on the tray, on the bases (to protect the table) or on their own. It is envisaged that in use they are set along the tray but when not in use they combine to sit as a sleek tower at one end of the tray. Handles and spouts for the tea and coffee pots cantilever out from the tower at different angles to suit their use.
A limited edition of 99 copies were made in silver.
Denton Corker Marshall entered an exhibition ‘The Australian Chair’ in 1989 and the Adelphi chair evolved from this design. The firm was looking to design a simple, reasonably priced chair with clean lines for the restaurant and café.
The Italian furniture company Edra Mazzi approached Denton Corker Marshall to develop a new dining chair and table based on ideas seen in the Adelphi Hotel furniture.
Edra Mazzei described the chair as … ‘representative of the studio’s architecture: a smart minimalism with refined effects of materials and colours. The chair, with its structure of steel and seat of opaline plastic, resembles, in its thin profile; a folded sheet of paper, offering the simple elegance of a gesture.’
Edra Mazzei requested the design of a suitable table to match, and this was subsequently designed and manufactured – a square table with interchangeable glazed, opaque, or transparent acrylic resin tops in a range of colours.
As part of the total design of the Adelphi Hotel, Denton Corker Marshall designed all the furniture for both public areas, restaurants, bars and the bedrooms. This ranged from soap-holders and lights to beds and sofas.
Using a range of brightly coloured leathers, the soft seating is a striking contribution to the interior spaces. Stainless steel, white Corian and American maple veneered panels are the background to the coloured elements.
Located in the Yantai city centre, Yantai City Plaza creates a new urban centre with a mix of retail and entertainment uses, with high density residential, commercial and recreation facilities.
Built over a two stages, the redevelopment is focused on a sequence of pedestrianized laneways, arcades and malls.
Stage one includes 24,000m² of retail space located in a four level podium, with two residential towers above. The retail façade integrates retail signage into a bar code pattern of full height vertical stripes.
Dazhongsi International Plaza is the largest scaled commercial / retail mall located on the third north ring road in Beijing, providing leisure, shopping, health clubs and entertainment facilities.
The project comprises four major blocks focused on two central pedestrian plazas. The four blocks are subdivided into smaller blocks via pedestrian laneways.
Retail space is provided in the form of a supermarket, hypermarket and department stores with a variety of small and medium retail, and food and beverage outlets housed in five levels above ground and one retail basement. A five level office and hotel are accommodated in linear buildings above the retail centre together with, a multi-level basement carpark below.
With a total gross area of 430,000m², the building sits on a 7.4 hectare site and includes 210,000m² above ground, a sunken plaza opening up a first basement retail level, plus an additional three basements containing 4,000 car spaces in stacking systems, loading docks and service areas.
Set on Cihampelas Street, a vibrant retail fashion destination in central Bandung, Ciwalk Shopping Mall is a series of two-storey pods on stilts.
With brand name anchor tenants such as Nike, the retail element and food and beverage outlets are designed around a series of courtyards with 100 year old pine trees.
Outdoor pedestrian walkways loop around restaurants, cafés and fashion boutiques, encouraging outdoor activity.
Ciwalk Shopping Mall connects to the Sensa Hotel, a 128 room hotel, via two open bridges.
On the site of the original Ji Xiang Peking Opera Theatre, the 50,000m² shopping, entertainment and theatre complex is located on Beijing’s premier shopping street, with multi-level basement carpark and retail outlets.
Responding to its historical artistic context and contemporary program of uses, the building is conceived as a theatre behind a transparent glass stage curtain. The glass curtain provides an opportunity to view, in select spots, an interior of colour, movement, advertising and display visible to Wang Fu Jing and Jin Yu Hu Tong Streets.
Instead of a ‘traditional building’ with windows and signage, here the building becomes one gigantic sign; contemporary, vibrant, exciting, and memorable. The life and activity of the street is drawn upwards and into its heart.
The sensuous draped perimeter skin provides an ever-changing surface of reflection and transparency, where the movement of passers-by creates an illusion of movement and complexity in an otherwise calm and understated form.
Originally planned as an interim use pending large scale redevelopment, Entertainment X’nter was designed to attract and cater for a young demographic.
The complex includes bars, restaurants, a bowling alley, fitness centre and retail outlets. These varied commercial venues are housed in five brightly coloured rectangular boxes resting at an angle. A bridge of steel and glass connects the centre to Plaza Indonesia, Indonesia’s first high end shopping centre.
Denton Corker Marshall was engaged by Lendlease to lead a masterplan for extending Holland Village, a much loved local destination in Singapore.
The diverse architecture explored contemporary interpretations of Singapore’s traditional ‘Shop-House’ and Kampong vernaculars, as well as, wider aspirations of a ‘City in a Garden’. Existing laneways or ‘lorongs’ extended the intimate, street-oriented character, feeding into a central public square, further enlivened by an informal landscaped amphitheatre for community events and performances, and an outdoor cinema. Additional spaces included a ‘POPS’ or Privately Owned Public Space, covered by an ethereal canopy to protect from tropical rainstorms, a terraced pocket park, and a playground activated by high quality cafes and family restaurants.
A large cinema complex was designed as a collection of smaller, articulated cubes, each articulated with a unique facade of green walls, clear glazed foyers, and metal or projection screens for public art. Rooftop spaces were maximised for public and community access, and activated by a range of opportunities, including an edible garden, rooftop bars and restaurants.
Located in the Yantai city centre, Yantai City Plaza creates a new urban centre with a mix of retail and entertainment uses, with high density residential, commercial and recreation facilities.
Built over a two stages, the redevelopment is focused on a large central urban space with a sunken plaza.
Stage two comprises 60,000m² of retail space on four levels above ground and 21,000m² in a retail basement, organised around a central spine with connecting pedestrian laneways.
A design competition for Abu Dhabi Government’s Masdar Initiative to build a sustainable urban community, Masdar City, on a six km2 site.
Concept for new film studios at the Docklands precinct of Melbourne.
The Bondi Plaza Redevelopment Study involved concept design for the redevelopment and expansion of the existing centre in two blocks of five to seven storeys each at Sydney’s Bondi Junction.
The Ringwood Town Centre Study involved an integrated town centre proposal reinforcing the link between Eastland Shopping Centre and a new upgraded modal interchange based on nearby Ringwood Station.
Residential, commercial and education uses were planned to be the main drivers, in conjunction with the required retail expansion of Eastland Shopping Centre. A street based urban framework was proposed together with an open space link.
Major uses include 45,000m² of retail over four levels, along with 19,000m² office, 16,000m² hotel and 33,000m² of residential space.