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Vision Apartments
Vision Apartments, June 2016.png
Vision, a month prior to topping out in July 2016
General information
Status Complete
Location 500 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
Groundbreaking 2011
Opening 2016
Cost AUD$400-500 million
Height
Roof 229 m (751 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 70
Design and construction
Developer The Brady Group

Vision Apartments is a residential skyscraper built in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. As of August 2018, the skyscraper is the seventh–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 m2 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 223 metres (732 feet) in height. 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. 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. By July 2016, the skyscraper had topped out, and had been completed a few months later.

Vision Apartments is currently the second–tallest residential building within the Melbourne CBD core, the seventh tallest residential building in Melbourne, and the tenth–tallest building in Melbourne overall.

Gallery

  • Vision Apartments UC - January 2015

    Vision under construction, in January 2015

  • Vision Apartments 006

    Vision under construction, in October 2015

  • Vision Apartments, Nov. 2015 1

    Vision under construction, in November 2015

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Vision Apartments para niños

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