The house and its interior were designed with a melting pot of the clients’ own life stories and that of the suburb in a celebration of the specific place in which the house and its interior are located and a reflection of the lives of people that inhabit the spaces.

The adaptive reuse of 55 Southbank Boulevard into the Adina Apartment Hotel Melbourne Southbank is Australia’s first cross-laminated timber (CLT) extension project and the world’s tallest mass timber vertical extension. This represents a new paradigm for sustainable construction.