Creating a modern building in a metropolitan environment requires balance and careful consideration. Respecting the existing cityscape while creating a structure that is modern in style and technique isn’t always easy. Yet the team at Gardiner Architects has achieved this in High St Apartments, located in Melbourne’s Thornbury. This mixed-use building consists of 13 apartments, a ground-floor car park and restaurant facing High Street.
Some apartment buildings can feel a13 unique spaces that seek to maximise their individual aspects. Even the entry points to each apartment are different. “We wanted to give each apartment a sense of address, with the idea that you are entering your house rather than a long corridor with repetitive doorways all facing each other,” a Gardiner Architects representative says. Breaking free from a repetitive design model has also created a sense of community, with each home respecting the fact that the resident is unique — just like the apartments themselves.
