Citation No:
City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier
"Edgewater Towers"
Formerly
unknown
2049
Gr e r a pe es k a Sh t Spencer S
Pde Marine
Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s)
Address
12 Marine Parade ST. KILDA
Constructed 1960
Category Residential:apartment Designer M. Benshemesh
Amendment C 29 Comment Significance `Edgewater Towers' is significant as the first of St Kilda's residential highrise developments, introducing a new concept of apartment living to bayside Melbourne. It still plays an important symbolic role in the perception of St Kilda's character and imagery. Standing somewhat like a towering section of stranded ocean liner, it announces St Kilda's uniquely nautical, cosmopolitan zone at its southern approaches. Its character is reinforced by the group of diverse buildings immediately to its north; a favour it admittedly does not confer the neighbours over whom it casts its shadow immediately to its south.
Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992
Other Studies Description Style : International Thirteen storey highrise flats Builder: Morison Bros. Original owner: Edgewater Towers Pty Ltd When completed in 1960 this building was advertised as `everything you'd find in a Manhattan building... only minutes from Collins Street.' Features included automatic express lifts, terrazzo paving, and ground floor shops and offices. The building contained one hundred single or two bedroom stratum titled apartments, each with private patios, laundry and garbage disposal chutes, lounge rooms and dinettes, and feature walls.(1)
History see Description