405 Bourke Street

2022 National Architecture Awards: Commercial Architecture – Shortlist

405 Bourke Street | woods bagot

Traditional Land Owners: The Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation

405 Bourke Street to be embedded in the essential ideas of Melbourne: as the most liveable and workable city. Located in the heart of the central business district, fronting both Bourke Street and Little Collins Street, the project reflects the ordered structure of the Hoddle grid, energized by the diversity of the promenading wide main streets, paralleling little streets and contributing sensitively to the tightly packed hustle of the interconnected laneway networks.

The building is an exciting and essential addition to the city skyline with its striking architectural language — a contextual response to the adjacent buildings and a celebration of the concept of the city’s grid through the laminations of glass.

Client perspective:
How does the design benefit the way you live/work/play/operate/educate/other?

405 Bourke Street is a transformative project that delivers enormous benefit to a broad spectrum of users: office tenants, pedestrians, shoppers and diners. It has breathed new life into an overlooked part of the central business district while providing an address of distinction that combines wellness, productivity and leading sustainability principles into a large, modern workplace.
By utilising the airspace above an existing heritage residential building, 405 Bourke Street’s distinctive cantilever structure allows the building to sit comfortably within the existing urban context without overpowering it, while also enhancing the ground plane aesthetic.

Practice team:

Eva Sue, Team member
David Christie, Team member
Grant Boshard, Team member
Femi Akande, Team member
John Young, Team member
Philip Parsons, Team member
Ashan Perera, Team member
Lawrence Ng, Team member
Reza Rashi, Team member
Cecilia Chau, Team member
Damian Camplin, Team member
Sue Fenton, Team member
Frank Rog, Team member
Helen Diao, Team member
Eugene Leong, Team member
Yow Voon Choong, Team member
Kel Dennis, Team member
Leyla Moghimi, Team member
John Liddiard, Team member
Charl Testa, Team member
Michael Church, Team member
Ryan Draver, Team member
Richard Abicair, Team member
Luciana Boudou, Team member
Lorenzo Ju, Team member
Ivan Kokrhelj, Team member
Sarah Kay, Team member
Kate Frear, Team member
Andy Gentry, Team member
Peter Miglis, Team member
Pietro Meriggi, Team member
Clement Nyanja, Team member
Marija Cakarun, Team member
Simon Dick, Team member
Nik Karalis, Team member

Builder:

Multiplex

Construction team:

WSP, Specialist Lighting
WSP, Hydraulic Engineer
WSP, Fire Services
WSP, ESD Consultant
WSP, Electrical Engineer
Waste Tech Services, Waste
Urbis Planning
Robert Bird Group, Structural Engineer
Robert Bird Group, Civil Engineer
Philip Chun & Associates, Accessibility
Philip Chun & Associates, Building Surveyor
Norman Disney Young, Mechanical Engineer
Norman Disney Young, Vertical Transport Engineer
Marshall Day Acoustics, Acoustic Consultant
Hassell, NAB fit-out
GTA, Traffic
Diadem, Wayfinding and signage
DCWC, Project Manager
Brookfield Property Partners, Developer
BG&E, Facade engineer
Beveridge Williams & Co P/L, Surveyor
Altitude, Facade access