First look: Inside the new Flinders Street apartment development, The Highlander
Melbourne's popular Flinders Street is set to get a rare new apartment development in the form of The Highlander, an architecturally striking tower just off the Yarra opposite the Sea Life Aquarium.
The Highlander, at 490 Flinders Street, is being developed by Singaporean investment firm Havenport Investments, who added the adjoining site at 1-9 Highlander Lane to create enough space for the 23-level building which will home 35 apartments.
There will be a mix of two and three-bedroom apartments, some half and some full floor. The levels up to 14 will have a maximum of three apartments, while from 14 to 21 will have three-bedroom, full floor apartments.
Level 22 homes a near 300 sqm, $7.5 million penthouse with unobstructed views over the river and Southbank.
The two-bedroom apartments, which start from 82 sqm, start from just over $1 million. The three-bedrooms start from $1.3 million.
The plans also include a ground floor with a residential lobby, a cafe, retail spaces, a basement level with a car stacker for ten vehicles, bicycle parking, and site services.
Designed by Metier 3, The Highlander features a dynamic facade through its chamfered and patterned windows.
The interiors feature wide solid oak floors, marble countertops and oak cabinetry throughout.
The heart of each Highlander apartments is the kitchen, complete with a butler's pantry and top-of-the-range AEG and Gaggenau appliances.
Andrew Norbury, founder of Metier3, said the philosophy of The Highlander deliberately avoids maximisation.
"Instead, we approached The Highlander as an artful expression of home design-less apartments, greater homes-drawing inspiration from a time when form and function were thoughtfully woven together with empathy and purpose."
The Highlander's location at the eastern end of Flinders Street, at the edge of the Hoddle Grid, allows for southern views of the Yarra River and an eastern perspective of Melbourne's Gardens. It's also just a stones throw from Southern Cross Station.
Castran Gilbert is marketing the project. They already have a number of reservations.
