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It may have been an international journalist who dubbed Melbourne “marvellous” way back in the 1880s but the moniker has stuck and been adopted. Through the city’s tough times, historical and more recent, Melburnians have known there’s much that this city has to celebrate and be proud of. It’s this pride that has kept creativity and enterprise constant, even when the chips are down. In this week’s issue, we take a look at Marvellous Melbourne’s design excellence, and highlight ingenuity and creative endeavour across different fields and specialities. We hope you enjoy it. ●

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t can be difficult to switch off in the modern world. Our phone is constantly pinging with messages, social media notifications and work emails asking us to do that thing we planned to do tomorrow, today. At home, it’s much the same with the everyday chores and life admin required as part of our domestic lives.

Finding a way to escape from it all seems almost impossible, but a selection of Melbourne bathhouses promises that for an hour or two, at least, we can.

“A bathhouse is a neighbourhood place where you can come and bathe with different modalities,” says Mary Minas, who, alongside her business partner Freya Berwick, co-founded Collingwood bathhouse Sense of Self.

“It’s also a place of social connection, a place to come together and share our differences but also unite in the commonalities we all have in our lives.”

Minas was originally drawn to the bathhouse experience in her early 20s when she bathed in the hammam at the Grand Mosque of Paris.

“My French-Tunisian friend and her mum would go every week, and I got to go when I was visiting.

The experience opened up my eyes to what real bodies look like and the different stages of life,” she remembers.

Her first soak left a lasting impression. As a filmmaker, Minas planned to make a documentary on bathhouses through the ages and went on what she calls a “bathhouse odyssey” through Europe, North Africa and Japan, but while she was researching her film, she changed tack: “I thought, I want to bring the bathhouse to Melbourne.”

Minas partnered up with Berwick, and their years-in-the-making bathhouse recently opened in

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Rinse, repeat Collingwood, a place they’ve purposefully built to bring the community together.

“There’s something special about coming to the bathhouse to commune with others,” she explains.

When designing Comma bathhouse in Cremorne, founder Susie McIntosh had one goal: to help people switch off. “Everyone is so busy and stressed, and we all have a million things on, so we just want to help people tune out for an hour,” she says.

Typically the bathhouse experience offers various hot-cold bathing options, where after an initial cleanse, the guest rotates between soaking in a mineral or magnesium hot tub or pool, taking a dip in a cold pool, spending some time in a Finnish or infrared sauna, then tipping a pail of cold water onto themselves to cool down.

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COVER STORY

A city’s architecture speaks to its character, so what do Melbourne’s best buildings – past and present – say about our state capital?

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icking off a handful of what he judges to be among the buildings that established Melbourne as a city of substance, Melbourne University emeritus professor of history Stuart Macintosh says “some, like Parliament House, are obvious; others, like the Queen’s Hall at the State Library of Victoria, are not”.

Macintosh, the immediate past chairman of the august Heritage Council, nominates the elegant 1856 space of Queen’s Hall as signalling Melbourne’s emergence as an ambitious, confident state capital – even if it was still young when the glass-ceilinged facility opened as a public library and museum.

“It was one of the few [in the world] of such a scale placed in the very centre of a city,” he says. “Libraries were the way to use wealth to civilise newcomers”.

The newcomers of the age were the tens of thousands of diggers attracted to Victoria’s gold rush.

“Gold transformed Melbourne and allowed the

building of our Parliament House on a grander scale than any other in Australia,” Macintosh says. “The Royal Exhibition Building has to be mentioned. The second half of the 19th century was the age of exhibitions, and although it’s not a particularly distinguished Joseph Reed building, this is the only exhibition building left in the world.”

Constructed in 1880-81, “it’s an extraordinary statement of international aspiration”.

“Another great building is William Wardell’s Gothic Revival St Patrick’s Cathedral that took 70 years [between 1858 to 1939] to develop in a combination of bluestone and sandstone.”

Macintosh says that, with its many church spires and still perceptible hills such as the Spring Street elevation and even Jolimont and Princes hills, “in the late 19th century guidebooks were describing Melbourne as being a city like Rome that is sited on seven hills”.

One tower that remains unobscured by the 21stcentury high-rise clutter is that belonging to Government House, completed south of the Yarra in 1871. “Modelled in the Italianate style on Queen Victoria’s Osborne House [on the Isle of Wight], it is again beyond the scale of any other government house in other states,” Macintosh says.

Another “extraordinarily fine building” Macintosh knows well is the sublime sandstone Melbourne University residential campus Newman College, designed by Walter Burley Griffin. “It is a wonderful, very specific and imaginative work for which Griffin also designed the furniture”.

These structures were all saying, “We are the biggest and the best!” he says. “To the end of the 19th century, Melbourne kept the lead as the financial and commercial capital of Australia.”

Looking at more recent Melbourne constructions, architect, commentator and presenter of the television program Restoration Australia, Stuart Harrison, contends there are quite a few that argue for Melbourne maintaining the mantle as the nation’s cultural capital.

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The first that comes to mind is “my favourite building and a standout in Melbourne”, Roy Ground’s 1968 National Gallery of Victoria. “So simple but it is a very rich building that takes bluestone and does something different with it,” he says.

Nearby Federation Square (circa 2002) – in his view, “Melbourne’s lounge room” – is another that the founding director of Harrison White Architects nominates as having stood the test of time. “It shows that if you spend the money and do it really well in quality materials, it goes really well.”

ARM or Ashton Raggett McDougall’s two-part redevelopment of the 1934 ziggurat that is the Shrine of Remembrance is admired “as a great piece of work that revitalised a great Melbourne building with four new [semi-subterranean] courtyards”.

“How do you work with such a well-known Melbourne building and make it better? But ARM added a whole extra layer to what is already a wonderful building”.

Though not universally appreciated, the 2010 development of “the big soccer balls”, or geodesic domes, of AAMI Park by Cox Architecture, is, “a great building with terrific digital technology”.

Although the premise of questioning Harrison was to ascertain which of the very recent Melbourne projects he would judge as being worthy of being around in the next century, he admits he is “struggling with the recent completions”.

The most recent work he will praise is John Wardle Architecture’s sensationally original 2019 music academy, The Ian Potter Southbank Centre.

Considering residential work, he quickly adds Breathe Architecture’s 2014 sustainable multiresidential prototype Brunswick development, The Commons, “as having held up very well and given a whole new identity to that part of the inner city”.

Like Macintyre, Harrison also has to range out of town to name projects of such interest and integrity that they will prevail through the ages.

“It’s not a building but a landscape project by TCL [Taylor Cullity Lethlean], he says. Opened in 2006, the outpost of The Royal Botanic Gardens at Cranbourne “has taken a while but it’s turning into a great contemporary landscape project with some wonderful little buildings within it”.

Another project “not many people know about” and that they wouldn’t automatically associate with the idea of great Melbourne buildings is Robert Simeoni Architects’ Seaford Lifesaving Club.

“It is a wonderful timber community building,” Harrison says, “by a wonderful architect, that has aged really well. It’s a great example of the kind of buildings we need more of.” ●

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lued to our screens for lavish shows such as Bridgerton or The Crown, we’ve grown accustomed to scene-stealing outfits.

Behind the bright lights and glamour of the Melbourne Theatre Company is a team of creative people who research, design, source and sew those sparkling costumes that appear on stage.

In a nondescript building in Southbank, away from the theatres, lies the MTC headquarters – the place where sets are made, costumes are designed and dreams are sewn into life. Racks of clothes spill out into the corridors of the costume department, a vast space containing thousands of outfits from previous shows.

Wardrobe manager Keryn Ribbands juggles the different productions with a staff that can range from eight people on a standard play to 40 on a fullblown period drama.

“Our biggest challenge quite often – particularly on a period show – is meeting the budgetary guidelines,” Ribbands says.

For period shows, hats play an important role and the MTC has milliner Phillip Rhodes, who is known for his beautiful creations. In An Ideal Husband, he made a hat for Lady Markby (played by Gina Riley) and a matching one for her dog.

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In the next office, Jurga Celikiene often spends 50 to 60 hours making a wig for a character. First the wig-maker chats with the designer and director to see what they want, she sources the hair (yak hair is particularly good) and then measures the actor’s head. Hand-knotting the strands is the really timeconsuming part. Rhodes also takes care of jewellery and Celikiene does make-up.

Costume-maker John Van Gastel, who comes from a family of tailors, is working on a “tear-away” outfit for The Truth. A quick change is required during the play so the shirt, jacket and trousers are sewn together as one piece with two big zips at the sides so the actor can be unzipped in seconds.

Awaiting a return to the stage is the Broadway comedy The Lifespan of a Fact, about the battle over truth and the value of storytelling. Starring Nadine Garner, Steve Mouzakis and Karl Richmond, it looks at the experience of an intern at a literary magazine. While contemporary, costume designer Kat Chan sketched every clothing detail.

After searching books of fabrics and swatches,

Ribbands finally sourced a special blue fabric for the editor’s trousers from Western Australia.

Not surprisingly, Ribbands believes costumes are integral to the success of a show.

“If an actor doesn’t feel they’ve got the right costume, or feel comfortable in their costume, they are not going to give their best performance.” ● THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT \ Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre ● mtc.com.au

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Transformative spaces EDUCATION School buildings are becoming sophisticated.

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eflecting light from a contemporary glassed entrance, the new building at St Leonard’s College in Brighton East is a professionalstandard performing arts centre designed by ARM Architecture, of Melbourne’s Hamer Hall and Recital Centre fame.

The Leonardian Centre is the piece de resistance of a $57-million school extension, which also includes 11 new classrooms, a lecture theatre and an underground car park.

“We wanted something iconic, something with wow factor,” says St Leonard’s principal Stuart Davis. “You often see cars stopping for people to have a better look.”

A co-educational independent school, St Leonard’s College joins a growing number of

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Australian schools engaging high-profile architectural firms to modernise and energise their learning spaces and facilities. But it’s also about more than simply turning heads, cautions Davis.

“We are focused on bringing quality performances to bayside, to benefit the local community,” he says.

“But also, to give our students access to these performers so they can learn from them.”

It’s a sentiment Ian McDougall of ARM Architecture says resonated with the firm.

“We are engaged in the arts, and we are a great fan of the role the arts play in being a fully rounded human being,” he says.

Along with the challenges of designing a space that can host traditional school functions as well as professional music performances, ARM also had to

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consider the existing school buildings and the surrounding streets.

“A building has two responsibilities,” McDougall says. “One is that its interior must function and work to meet every functional demand, but it also has a responsibility on the outside as a citizen in the city of buildings.

“And that’s where we try to get to when we’re working on a design. That a building’s community embraces it when it’s first done, and the embracing continues because it continues to work and it fulfils that need in the community.”

That yearning for connection, and an evolving appreciation for how architecture can aid learning, is responsible for the rising sophistication in educational architecture, says Australian Institute of Architects national president Tony Giannone.

“Recently, there has been a focus on the quality of learning spaces as we’ve become more aware that quality design leads to quality learning,” he says.

On the other side of Melbourne, Research Primary School is also feeling the transformative power of good design. A collaboration between

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architects Kennedy Nolan and the Victorian Schools Building Authority has led to the upgrade of its junior school, shortlisted in the 2021 Victorian Architecture Awards.

Dated classrooms were replaced with rooms that embrace fresh air and natural light, opening onto each other for collaborative learning. “There are glass doors everywhere, and the kids can spill

outside and learn outside of their classrooms as well,” says principal Fiona Vale. “It all just makes so much more sense; it’s beautiful.”

Architect Patrick Kennedy notes building for children is particularly appealing because “of the potential to shape the way they understand space, light, sound and materials - childhood memories can be so formative and positive”. ●

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ART & DESIGN

In plain sight

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hen Yarraville artist Maree Clarke goes on a 1000-kilometre road trip collecting roadkill between Melbourne, Mildura, Broken Hill, Hay, Deniliquin and back, she makes sure there are a few portable coolers in her car.

“If you see a dead roo on the road, you have to stop; that to us is gold,” says Clarke. “I’ll spend five days collecting dead animals and a week preparing them when I return. You always need the Esky, or that smell will seep through the car and won't leave if you don't seal it properly.”

Clarke, a Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta, and BoonWurrung/Wemba Wemba woman, is a senior curator and exhibition manager at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne and does art mentoring via the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency. She has spent the past three decades reclaiming south-

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east Australian Aboriginal art and cultural practices – sharing elements lost through colonisation. Retrieving dead animals is part of that, but her output is much broader.

Now, a major retrospective Ancestral Memories at the NGV’s Ian Potter Centre celebrates her artistic work. It’s where you’ll find many of her art jewellery pieces that incorporate kangaroo teeth, river reed and echidna quills. But this is not art for fashion’s sake – her connection to culture and land runs much deeper.

Clarke’s work covers photography, printmaking, sculpture, jewellery, video and glass. In the exhibition, rarely seen black-and-white photographs that bring to life key figures and events in Melbourne during the 1990s are on show, plus lenticular prints and photographic holograms. New

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work includes Born of the Land Next Generation, which features 11 of her nieces and nephews.

“I have been pushing for the past 30 years to put Victorian Aboriginal art on the map,” Clarke says.

“It would be great if people could look in their own backyard before looking north and try to recognise what is happening in the south-east – it’s still like we're still invisible,” she says.

Indigenous art curator Myles Russell-Cook says Clarke should already be a household name but hopes the retrospective will introduce her work to more people.

“The exciting thing about what Maree does is bridge the dialogue between the historical and the contemporary,” he says Myles Russell-Cook. “She takes customary practices and reimagines them in a contemporary way.” ● Maree Clarke is on a mission to put ‘invisible’

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t a recent Mother’s Day Morning Tea at St Columba’s College, mums were keen to learn more about a new initiative that has the school community talking. Instigated by the College’s Environment Group, a vegetable garden is being planted in the school grounds.

“The garden is exciting. It’s in a patch of ground at the heart of the school, and the first part to be planted will be a native plant section to continue on from National Reconciliation Week celebrations,” says Adele Roeder, year 12 student and Environment Captain.

“It will be maintained by students, and the produce can be used by the canteen or donated to local food banks.”

Since becoming Environment Captain late last year, Roeder has been proactive within the College, and she’s encouraged a growing number of students to step up in the name of sustainability.

Students gather at fortnightly lunchtime meetings to discuss ideas about how St Columba’s can do more for the environment.

Year 8 students follow an interdisciplinary program, Fiontar, that focuses on developing futurefocused skills by exposing students to global issues, such as climate change and its impacts.

They are keen to be part of environmental initiatives, says Roeder. “They suggested installing a compost bin and organised a day to clean up along the Maribyrnong River. They have a lot of useful ideas and plenty of energy!”

Roeder first joined the Environment Group in year 9. She also volunteers with community environment organisations such as Valley Youth, part of Moonee Valley City Council, and Moonee Valley Sustainability group.

Other initiatives championed by Roeder and her fellow students include the installation of coffee cup recycling stations around the school and sustainable workshops where students make “bee hotels” – which will be used to encourage bees to pollinate the veggie garden – and no-sew T-shirt bags that turn old T-shirts into something useful.

A recycling station has also been established outside the College’s STEAM lab.

“Girls can donate recyclable materials from home, like toilet paper rolls, string and old mechanical

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toys, that can be used in student projects,” Roeder says. “We also collect bread tags that are donated to Aussie Bread Tags for Wheelchairs. Tags are melted down and turned into items that can be sold to fund wheelchairs for people in South Africa.”

The Environment Group’s efforts are supported

by St Columba’s Head of Faith and Mission, Renee Fleeton. She supports the College’s specialist captains by acting as a sounding board for ideas and providing students with the skills they need to turn ideas into actions.

“Adele is passionate and well-informed, and her involvement with local council groups has given her the tools to be able to move things along,” Fleeton says. “She’s keen to share her expertise with other students, and she’s empowering other young people to feel they can take action. The Environment

Group is becoming stronger and stronger and is showing that short, sharp activities and small changes can have a significant long-term effect on our environment and community.

“During the Mother’s Day Morning Tea, mums were discussing how great the garden will be, and they were wondering what might be planted.

“These kinds of initiatives are now being talked about in our community, which is very encouraging,” she says When she leaves St Columba’s at the end of this year, Roeder plans to continue her efforts to help the planet by studying science and majoring in climate or environmental science or by becoming involved in the fields of land management and environmental policy. ● SARAH MARINOS

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eafarers’ riverfront residences will have exceptional at-home luxury, with services and amenities expected of a five-star hotel, in a building designed by architectural visionary Nonda Katsalidis.

The $500 million mixed-use waterfront precinct will comprise 123 residences plus 277 guest rooms managed by 1 Hotel. The world’s leading eco-luxury group has award-winning hotels around the world including New York, Los Angeles and London.

The private residences will have access to 1 Hotel’s services and amenities including chef-catered dinners, 24-hour concierge, pet care, pool, gym, sauna and wellness spa.

Sweeping views over the Yarra, parklands and the city enhance the grandly scaled layouts, which feature fully-integrated Italian Snaidero kitchens, Gaggenau appliances and bespoke joinery.

The 18-storey Seafarers building will incorporate the site’s 1894 heritage-listed Goods Shed 5.

Heritage retention works have just been completed with more than 2200 items salvaged. ● LIZ McLACHLAN

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SEAFARERS » seafarers-residences.com. au 731 Flinders Street, Docklands ● Developer \ Riverlee ● Architect \ Fender Katsalidis ● Interior Designer \ Carr ● Landscape Designer \ Oculus FIVE-STAR SERVICE

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LOCATION \ Take the waterfront Yarra Promenade to walk to the city, Southbank, Arts Precinct or Botanic Gardens. There’s a tram stop outside and Southern Cross and Flinders Street stations are nearby. ●

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THORNBURY \ 116 ROSSMOYNE STREET 4

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Science fiction writer William Gibson once said the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. It has certainly arrived at this new family house, which comes with its own Tesla electric car charger. Inspired by the Californian bungalow style, the build is full of clever touches, from three-metre ceilings to the wood-burning fireplace in the spacious dining and family room, which opens onto an outdoor deck overlooking the landscaped backyard. Work from home easily in the home office, while the main bedroom has a double-basin en suite and seated bay window. The north-facing facade is easily maintained cement sheeting and there is direct rear access to Alan Sheppard reserve. ● ANDERS FURZE

Agent: Jellis Craig, Nigel Harry 0412 464 116 Price: $1.8 million-$1.9 million Auction: 1pm, June 26

CLIFTON HILL \ 7 TURNBULL STREET 4

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This Federation house offers renovation potential (subject to council approval) and sits on a prominent corner block in Clifton Hill, one of the most prized neighbourhoods in Melbourne’s inner north. The distinctive tuck-pointed facade is an eye-catcher from the start, with an arched hallway that leads to the four bedrooms and bathroom at the front of the house. Head out the back for the living area and kitchen-meals room, plus a retreat that doubles as a home office. There is plenty of space for outdoor entertaining, including a covered area. A double garage keeps parking secure and it’s all found moments away from Queens Parade village, opposite Mayors Park. ● ANDERS FURZE

Agent: Nelson Alexander, Luke Sacco 0407 528 040 Price: $2.2 million-$2.3 million

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