Description

Winner of the Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design in the 2025 Victorian Architecture Awards, Glen Huntly Station celebrates the character of the Glen Huntly Road retail precinct. It provides a new central open town square space suitable for programmed events and informal gathering. A material palette of red brick, stone, timber and anodised aluminium complements the fabric of the surrounding streetscape, while providing a unique identity for the station.

The station, located on the Frankston train line, is part of the Glen Huntly Level Crossing Removal Project which creates safer cross-corridor connections and provides the new train station, tram stop and associated infrastructure to service the local community. 

The project respects the deeper history of the local retail and civic hub while improving pedestrian connections and enhancing and encouraging the commuter experience.

What's On

Senior project leaders from COX will host guided tours of the station and explain the design concept and technical challenges of designing train stations. The new station concourse entry has been conceived as a bridge that reconnects the east and west sides of Glen Huntly Road’s retail hub. The façade articulates this reconnection by way of a brick arch, the geometry matching the parapet detail of the historic shopfronts. Striking LED sculptures by artist Meagan Streader are integrated into the forecourt, while the station features solar panels on the canopy roof, tank captured water and durable material selections to enhance its longevity and sustainability.