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Apartment Market Snapshot – External Appeal

Market Insights
7 years ago
3 minutes
Search apartment developments and you’ll quickly see just how diverse the range of apartment projects can be across Melbourne.

In particular, the exterior architecture and landscaping can have a huge impact on how you feel about your home. In this snapshot, we bring you some of our favourite developments that highlight the wide choice of exterior designs, styles and landscaping currently on the apartment market.
 
Centrepiece – Innovative Shapes
The outside of an apartment building is key to creating a good first impression. Projects like Centrepiece Bentleigh are designed to pack a punch with a bold and memorable exterior facade.
 
Created by developer Launch Corporation with leading Bruce Henderson Architects heading up the design, residents will come home to a collection of luxurious apartments in a uniquely striking building. Its contemporary style is defined by a series of angular concrete forms that give it a bold character.
 
This signals the quality and architectural confidence of the apartments inside, with the modern concrete balanced by natural timber detailing to each of the balconies.
 
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Hedgeley – Unique Communal Gardens
Creating communal gardens and relaxing spaces is a real value-add to an apartment development. Hedgeley in Malvern East is taking an interesting approach by including a central green atrium garden. As well as being a great spot to relax, this central oasis also gives the apartments a green view and year-round colour.
 
Hedgeley also features more greenery on the roof, with a spectacular garden terrace created by leading landscape architect, Jack Merlo. These kinds of communal spaces offer real lifestyle benefits to residents and a way of ensuring nature is included in the living environment.
 
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NoBa – Shapes and Curves
With so many apartment projects looking the same, finding one that has its own architectural character is can be both pleasing and great for long-term value.
 
NoBa in North Balwyn is a great example, with its external curves that create a real fluidity to the facade. Inside each luxurious apartment features curved walls that create a connection with the external architectural features.
 
This kind of consistent design approach results in homes that feel far from the cookie-cutter, boxy cliche of large scale developments.
 
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Patch - Textured Surfaces
Residential buildings can use a number of techniques to add external interest. Cleverly reflecting the attention to detail throughout every apartment within it, Patch in coveted North Fitzroy uses a subtle yet effective texturing to the external facade.
 
Instead of plain concrete slabs, the outer structure of this boutique collection of contemporary apartments is fluted. This creates a vertical texture that will visually shift and change as the sun moves throughout the day. The changing shadows cast by the fluting will mean the building will look a little different from hour to hour.
 
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Windsor Terrace - Heritage Approach
New developments in an old location can turn up their own challenges, but when a developer does it well, the results can be impressive.
 
Windsor Terrace manages to combine a beautiful heritage street façade with the modern, contrasting materials within the apartments to create a residential project that sits between the past and the future perfectly. 
 
Windsor Terrace takes the aesthetic of the traditional Victorian-era terrace houses and assimilates them into the contemporary apartments inside, so they sit harmoniously with the existing heritage streetscape.
 
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