Description

The design for Queen & Collins integrates its remarkable heritage with retail opportunities and a vision for a workplace with wellbeing and social connection at its heart. This is underpinned by an urban design strategy which reconnects half a block back into the city with a network of new pathways and interstitial spaces for public access and enjoyment. The various buildings were disaggregated to express their individual character and a further four new retail blocks added. The project is a collaboration between KTA (podium, ground plane, urban design), BVN (workplace), and Lovell Chen (heritage).

What's On

Join for a guided building tour showcasing the transformation of the iconic Gothic Bank Complex in Melbourne’s CBD, including three 19th-century Boom era neo-Gothic architectural landmarks and a series of open-air lanes, courtyards and intimate squares (campiellos) of varying heights extending from ground level to level three.

In Collaboration With:

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  Grant Dixon, Senior Architect, Kerstin Thompson Architects

  Grant has over 25 years of experience in architectural practice delivering numerous large- to small-scale projects encompassing single- and multi-residential, education, arts, civic and commercial sectors.
  His broad knowledge across all project stages and has helped realise many projects from concept design through to planning and heritage approvals, design development, contract documentation & administration; his expertise, insights and collaborative approach enable him to provide invaluable support amongst project teams and the practice.
  Grant approaches all projects holistically, encompassing clients’ needs, design intent and resolution through detailed coordination, project management and delivery.

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  Suzanne Zahra, Associate Principal, Lovell Chen

  Architect, Associate Principal and longstanding member of Lovell Chen’s multidisciplinary team, Suzanne is particularly experienced in negotiating outcomes for challenging large-scale projects and working at a national level with the EPBC Act and for state significant heritage places in Victoria. She looks for outcomes that balance heritage value and the client’s future vision with factors such as the extension of the life/purpose of a building, minimising embodied carbon and energy use, community attachment and indigenous connections.
  In 2023 she completed the inaugural long-form Getty Conservation Institute International Course on the Conservation of Modern Heritage. She is a current Advisory Board Member of ACAHUCH (Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage) at the University of Melbourne.