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Another of Brunswick East's prime development lots is at planning, accounting for well known Middle Eastern eatery Rumi and an adjacent at grade car park.

Collingwood-based Architects EAT have designed the apartment block, arguably hitting an interesting balance between form and function. 116-118 Lygon Street is the latest project to show a heightened degree of design nous along the established apartment strip, potentially adding another strong addition to the higher density design dynamic which has swept along the northern reaches of Lygon Street.

Potentially in that the application has just reached advertising with Moreland City Council, and is some time away from a decision.

Expected to fall to development for some time, the application's proponent Deryan &amp; Co Pty Ltd took the application to planning late in 2017. An island site, the application also absorbs the adjacent 205 Edward Street.

<h2>116-118 Lygon Street application summary</h2>

<figure><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public//pictures/article-images/image40_11.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="High activation over the rear of the site. Planning image: Architects EAT"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="427" src="/sites/urban.melbourne/files//styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/image40_11.jpg?itok=tS7mAOpL" title="High activation over the rear of the site. Planning image: Architects EAT" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>High activation over the rear of the site. Planning image: Architects EAT</figcaption></figure><ul>
<li>Site area: 1,275sqm with 4 frontages</li>
	<li>Proposed: 8 level apartment block at 24.5m in height</li>
	<li>47 apartments: 4 x 1BR, 37 x 2BR, 6 x 3BR</li>
	<li>2 basement levels for 72 vehicles and 111 bicycles</li>
	<li>5 retail tenancies: 275.4sqm</li>
	<li>New Rumi restaurant: 246.7sqm</li>
	<li>Ground floor communal area and rooftop terrace</li>
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<h2>Design basis</h2>

Architects EAT via their website note the arch is a symbol of a gateway, an entry, transition or landmark, thus the arched window was employed across the building. "We looked at the arched window prevalent in Brunswick’s eclectic neighbourhood and have transported it to the 21st century to match modern-day living."

The above is reinforced by planning agency Hansen Partnership who describe 116-118 Lygon Street in the following way:

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The proposed building is of high architectural quality and incorporates a number of different elements to break up the form and ensure that it is an interesting building both at a pedestrian scale but also in the broad context of views from further north and south of Lygon Street and from the east and west of Edward Street.

At the podium level, the balconies will be vertically framed with steel metal fins and mesh balustrades to provide balcony protection, these have been designed in scalloped form along the Cocoa Jacksons Lane, Lygon and Edward Street.
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<figcaption>Lygon Street frontage. Planning image: Architects EAT</figcaption></figure><h2>Changing the Lygon form</h2>

Lygon Street's changing built form has in itself evolved over recent years. Earlier apartment developments were very much rudimentary in their exterior expression, heavily dependant upon precast elements.

Hansen Partnership notes that the swing to higher density "change has already started to occur and is notable along Lygon Street with the level of mixed-use buildings under construction or recently finished. Approved developments are largely representative of the outcomes anticipated under the DDO19, with various heights that fall within and outside of the discretionary height limit, dependant on context."

116-118 Lygon Street is the latest application to enforce the upswing in design quality along Lygon Street. More recent atypical designs to land Brunswick East's Lygon Street include <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/new-apartments/396-lygon-street-brunswick-east">396 Lygon Street</a> and <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/new-apartments/362-366-lygon-street-brunswick-east">362-366 Lygon Street</a>.

<figure><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public//pictures/article-images/image47_10.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="Lygon Street has gained some architectural merit"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="1041" src="/sites/urban.melbourne/files//styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/image47_10.jpg?itok=Nzg49L_i" title="Lygon Street has gained some architectural merit" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>Lygon Street has gained some architectural merit</figcaption></figure>
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Having your cake and EATing it on Brunswick East's Lygon Street

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Melbourne's suburban apartment market is in full swing. With record numbers of active apartment projects across the suburbs, the spike in development activity has allowed a bevvy of small and medium-sized builders to capitalise upon the favourable market conditions.

Citi-con is one such builder that falls into this category; the Footscray-based apartment constructor has increased its project output in recent years, now holding eight current builds across its books. Latest to the ledger are three freshly signed-off apartment projects in Hawthorn East, Malvern East and Essendon.

Brasshouse Apartments which has been in the Urban.com.au Project Database since early 2015 is the eye-catching project of the trio. At one point fellow builder Trio Construct was listed as Brasshouse's contractor, but Citi-con has since snared the build on behalf of K7 Developments.

Brasshouse repeats the partnership between developer and builder, with Citi-con completing the Rothelowman-designed Canterbury Hill for K7 Developments at the turn of 2017. Also the work of Rothelowman, Brasshouse will include 48 dwellings.

<figure><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/pictures/article-images/image7_17.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="Brasshouse. Image: Rothelowman"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="407" src="/sites/urban.melbourne/files/styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/image7_17.jpg?itok=6Hlp_y4-" title="Brasshouse. Image: Rothelowman" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>Brasshouse. Image: Rothelowman</figcaption></figure>Next on Citi-con's agenda is Volume Malvern East. It first surfaced during 2014 and was <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/some-architects-eat-style-for-malvern-east">likened to Darth Vader</a> in appearance by creator Architects EAT. Although the project has lost its then decisive black and purple exterior, plus an additional level, Architects EAT have remained as architect for the development backed by VOLUME Projects.

On the intersection of Emo and Dandenong Roads, Volume's sales were handled by Est8 Agency. It contains 29 apartments across 4 levels of living.

Volume is one of 22 apartment projects within Urban.com.au's Malvern East Database capture; it will be the sixth project currently under construction within the suburb, amounting to 666 new dwellings.

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<figcaption>Volume. Image: Architects EAT</figcaption></figure>Rounding out Citi-con new trio is the less adventurously designed and named 222 Buckley Street, Essendon.

In a constrained pocket of apartment developments that includes the stylish <a href="https://images.listonce.com.au/listings/305193-buckley-street-essendon-vic-3040/822/00482822_img_05_1600x.jpg?1">195 Buckley Street</a>, 222 Buckley Street will see four levels of living containing 25 apartments above basement car parking. Closest to construction commencement, the design is attributed to The Silver Arc.

Combined the three above projects add 100 plus apartments to the builder's pipeline. Amalgamated with Citi-con's at construction projects, namely Pica, Modern, Punton, Fitz&amp; Co plus Moore Moonee Ponds, and the builder has approximately 275 apartments under construction.

<figure><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/pictures/article-images/main_5.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="222 Buckley. Image: The Silver Arc"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="435" src="/sites/urban.melbourne/files/styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/main_5.jpg?itok=MmvMkxEi" title="222 Buckley. Image: The Silver Arc" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>222 Buckley. Image: The Silver Arc</figcaption></figure>
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