Collins House

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Melbourne’s most exclusive and prominent streets gives warm welcome to the city’s thinnest skyscraper with the heritage and elegance of the 190 metre Collins House. 
Serviced by an extensive tram system and within walking distance of major stations such as Flinders Street Station and Southern Cross, Collins House residents will be extremely connected to the immediate privileges of the inner city and surroundings.

The finest dining, retail precincts, commercial opportunities, parklands and riverside bars and restaurants are all a mere tram stop or two away from home.

With a mixture of expansive multi-level lofts and single level apartment designs, each residence is beaming with natural light and city views with a choice of colour schemes to personalise your home, specially tailored to you. Luxurious fixtures and fittings in timber, stone and brass evoke a sense of timelessness alongside the beautiful oak floorboards, marble splashbacks, fluted glass cabinetry and subtle pendant lighting in every home.

The design of the tower’s interior reflects the exterior with a tremendous blend of heritage and modernity with a classic throwback to Melbourne’s gold rush era.

Every penthouse within the tower offers spacious floor plans of three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a study and powder room with a holistic design aesthetic. Warm colour palettes,  refined materiality and seamless connecting open spaces make up the residences at Collins House.

Designed by Bates Smart, the slender tower floats atop the grand heritage facade of the Maker’s Mark building comprising 259 spacious apartments across 60 floors with panoramic city views and floor to ceiling double glazed windows filling all residences with natural light and warmth and spectacular amenities.

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<li>There are two levels of amenity with the level 3 Collins Terrace boasting:</li>
	<li>Indoor and outdoor dining and lounge spaces</li>
	<li>A gourmet chef’s kitchen for resident’s use</li>
	<li>An open terrace surrounded by lush greenery atop the heritage facade</li>
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The level 27 St James Club is as opulent as one would imagine with a state of the art gymnasium, an outdoor deck and private bar and lounge areas.

Urban's three favourite things about Collins House:

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<li>The elegant and slender tower design.</li>
	<li>The heritage podium restored to its former glory.</li>
	<li>Spacious apartments with floor to ceiling views.</li>
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Melbourne’s most exclusive and prominent streets gives warm welcome to the city’s thinnest skyscraper with the heritage and elegance of the 190 metre Collins House.
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Melbourne’s most exclusive and prominent streets gives warm welcome to Collins House.

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Urban.com.au has <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/collins-street-west-set-for-significant-change">previously highlighted</a> the significant transformation that is currently underway along the western reaches of Collin Street with three projects currently under construction and a number of others due to begin in the next few years.

The three projects in question - Collins Arch, Collins House and <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/projects/olderfleet-477-collins-street-melbourne">Olderfleet </a>- have all recently had cranes erected following months of demolition and early site works, allowing these three skyline changing projects to begin rising out of the ground.

Together these three projects will also deliver 3,500 sqm of public realm, almost 100,000 sqm of office space, 294 hotel suites and 469 apartments between them over the next 3 years.

Below is a snapshot of the current state of play on each of these projects.

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<figcaption>Olderfleet (Mirvac), Collins House (Golden Age), Collins Arch (Cbus Property)</figcaption></figure><h2>Collins Arch</h2>

The dual tower development affectionately referred to as 'the pantscraper' has the beginnings of its cores visible with the jump form no too far off.

The development has some way to go before it reaches Collins Street but with Multiplex at the helm its core should begin poking out above the street in the next few months, with the basement levels to follow. Its unique form will most likely appear on the skyline from mid next year.

Upon completion, the 41-storey Collins Arch will feature 294 hotel rooms, 43,000sqm of office space, 202 apartments and a 1,500 sqm park which will add much needed green space into the heart of the city. The Woods Bagot &amp; SHoP designed project will rise to a height of 143m.

<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/collins_arch_1.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="Collins Arch construction progress. Images: (L-R) redden, Zekebe"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="274" src="/sites/urban.melbourne/files/styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/collins_arch_1.jpg?itok=-OJco8gv" title="Collins Arch construction progress. Images: (L-R) redden, Zekebe" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>Collins Arch construction progress. Images: (L-R) redden, Zekebe</figcaption></figure><h2>Collins House</h2>

Golden Age's 204m <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/projects/collins-house-melbourne-466-collins-street-melbourne">Collins House project</a> will be Australia's thinnest tower and as the below photos illustrate this is not without its challenges as the site's narrow footprint, constraints of neighbouring buildings and a single point of access created issues with the amount of room available to manoeuvre the various pieces of plant required for the ground works.

Despite this construction of the Bates Smart-designed residential tower is expected to pick up with builder Hickory employing its HBS construction method, with the site serviced by a single tower crane and major elements including façade and precast fabricated off-site and rapidly assembled on arrival to Collins Street.

Prefabricated Hickory structural units will be used from level 14 onwards, following the completion of conventional formwork construction. As a result of these construction techniques, the construction programme will be reduced by up to 30%.

<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/p8290453.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="Collins House construction progress. Images: redden"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="215" src="/sites/urban.melbourne/files/styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/p8290453.jpg?itok=GepRXhcM" title="Collins House construction progress. Images: redden" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>Collins House construction progress. Images: redden</figcaption></figure><h2>Olderfleet</h2>

Construction of Mirvac's Olderfleet project is in full swing with a targeted completion date of July 2020, when anchor tenant Deloitte will relocate into their Grimshaw-designed digs. In addition to the erection of the first crane behind the Olderlfleet buildings a gantry has also been installed to Collins Street.

The remnants of the 80's office building's western core is visible as the structure provides temporary structural support to the Olderfleet buildings. It will eventually be removed once the new structural elements are built. 

The now exposed rear of the Olderfleet buildings will once again disappear from view as the floor plates rise and obscure the view from the street. The southern facade will be cleaned and restored providing a unique backdrop to the projects lobby and 30m high atrium.

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<figcaption>Olderfleet construction progress. Images: redden</figcaption></figure>Lead Image: redden
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