New high-rise residential buildings and existing high-rise buildings (source: photography and editing by author)
The Melbourne Central Precinct has under go rapid changing in terms of the CBD’s skyline. Most noticeable new buildings are located in La Trobe Street, A’Beckett Street, Franklin Street and Victoria Street along the Elizabeth transect. QUEENS PLACE (Source: Image created by Colliers. Editing by author.)
These proposed ‘twin towers’ are on their way to be constructed. The site was a carpark and it was then proposed for residential use in the next building project on this site. Showing how the land use will be changed.
B|E SOUTH Tower (Source: Image created by Scharp. Editing by author.)
Proposed building project (Commercial Building) located side by side with the Commonwealth Building in Bourke Street. This building will be built on the existing Galleria Shopping Plaza. Satellite image of construction sites (source: nearmap (2018). Editing by author)
Brownfield site is defined as land that is currently not in used but was developed. However, it will be used for constructing high-rise apar tment in the future.
Change can be defined as ‘an act or process through which something becomes different’. In the context of this exercise, change will be defined as how the CBD been altering land use to a mixed of high-rise residential and commercial usage. This is also to cater for population rise and making the city convenient for people who works in CBD. For example, the new high-rise apar tments provide accommodation for the university students to deal with the large demand of housing. Melbourne City Council planner mentioned in a repor t from 2015, saying that Melbourne’s rate of high-rise development is four times faster than some of the world’s
Data up-to-date: 20 May 2018
highest density cities (Hong Kong, New York and Tokyo). By my observation, new high-rise residential buildings have
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been constructed in a very fast pace in the past two years. Surroundings are constantly changing, especially along the Elizabeth transect. Fur thermore, I collected my data throught observation and secondary research on ‘Melbourne Data’ and ‘Urban Melbourne’ for the latest building information. https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Property-Planning/Development-Activity-Model-Footprints/def8-4wbt https://www.urban.com.au/projectdatabase
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