Vision Apartments is a residential skyscraper built in
Melbourne
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Victoria, Australia. As of 2024, the skyscraper is the seventeenth–tallest building in Melbourne.
History
By early 2009, the Brady Group were proposing to build a residential skyscraper on a site adjacent to the
Queen Victoria Market car park. The 1,030 m
2 site, which previously hosted a 150–year–old hotel, was bought at an auction for $
AUD11.8 million by the property developer, in 2008. After minor changes to design, The Brady Group officially re–launched the project in 2011, wherein plans were tabled for a residential skyscraper which would reach in height.
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'' Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat''. Retrieved 22 February 2024.[(10 November 2014]
"Construction Commences on Melbourne CBD’s Tallest Building"
''TheUrbanDeveloper''. Retrieved 26 January 2015 The proposal included more than 500 residential apartments spanning across 69 levels, in addition to three basement levels.
Approval for the project was granted in November 2012, by the then–Planning Minister,
Matthew Guy.
[Walsh, Alistair. (1 November 2012)]
"Vision, the tallest approved residential building in Melbourne CBD, begins marketing"
''PropertyObserver''. Retrieved 26 January 2015. Construction on the $400–500 million project commenced in October 2013, whereby a completion date was estimated for some time in mid–2016.
During construction, the
Melbourne City Council discovered that two of three basement car-park levels had not been constructed, despite being present within the 2011 plans for the project; nevertheless, the developer had submitted minor planning amendments to Minister Guy, as to reflect the failure to build the two additional levels.
[Lucas, Clay. (29 October 2015)]
"Ooops! Developer fails to build two promised levels of underground parking"
''The Sydney Morning Herald
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''. Retrieved 20 October 2016. By July 2016, the skyscraper had topped out, and had been completed a few months later.
Vision Apartments is currently the fifth–tallest residential building within the Melbourne CBD core, the ninth tallest residential building in Melbourne, and the
seventeenth–tallest building in Melbourne overall.
Gallery
File:Vision Apartments UC - January 2015.jpg, Vision under construction, in January 2015
File:Vision Apartments 006.JPG, Vision under construction, in October 2015
File:Vision Apartments, Nov. 2015 1.jpg, Vision under construction, in November 2015
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Melbourne
* Nearby features
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Light House Melbourne
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Queen Victoria Market
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Victoria One
References
External links
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Skyscrapers in Melbourne
Residential skyscrapers in Australia
Apartment buildings in Melbourne
Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
Buildings and structures in Melbourne City Centre
2016 establishments in Australia
Buildings and structures completed in 2016
Neomodern architecture in Australia