600 Lonsdale Street

600 Lonsdale
600 Lonsdale
600 Lonsdale

With varied setbacks, landscaped terraces, and large floorplates, 600 Lonsdale brings a new model for office architecture to Melbourne's business district, while honoring the city's legacy of terracotta facades.

Project Facts
  • Status Never Completed
  • Completion Year 2026
  • Design Finish Year 2021
  • Size Site Area: 1,923 Building Height: 155 meters Number of Stories: 40 Building Gross Area: 52,500 square meters
  • Rental Units 288
  • Collaborators
    Mcgregor Coxall WSP Fender Katsalidis Webber Design
Project Facts
  • Status Never Completed
  • Completion Year 2026
  • Design Finish Year 2021
  • Size Site Area: 1,923 Building Height: 155 meters Number of Stories: 40 Building Gross Area: 52,500 square meters
  • Rental Units 288
  • Collaborators
    Mcgregor Coxall WSP Fender Katsalidis Webber Design

Elevating Melbourne’s business district

600 Lonsdale brings a new genre of high rise to Melbourne. Programmatically diverse, solar-responsive, and a model of biophilic design, the building blurs boundaries between work, life, and leisure. Situated on a prominent corner in Melbourne’s legal precinct, the 42-story building contributes to the rapidly transforming “West End” of the central business district. 600 Lonsdale combines 24,400 square meters of A-grade office space, amenities, and retail space. Terraces and balconies express the building mass as a series of volumes, mediating between the scale of surrounding heritage buildings and the neighborhood’s emerging high-rise context.

600 Lonsdale
© Floodslicer | SOM

Flexibility and functionality

To meet the demands of the new workplace, the building’s offset core and perimeter cantilevers enable office floorplates that are open, adaptable, and highly flexible. A welcoming and open ground level with operable storefront elements further blurs the boundaries of use, while office and retail functions interact and overlap. This further eases the boundaries between inside and outside, public and private, and will help foster a sense of community and openness at street level. The dynamic mix of uses will extend the building’s activity from the workweek into the weekend, firmly rooting 600 Lonsdale in the emerging life and energy of the neighborhood.

The result is a cleverly designed tower that uses high-quality materials and a terracotta external fin system that could bring a new direction in style for Melbourne.

Nicholas Reece, Melbourne councillor, The Sydney Morning Herald

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