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Steel-framed arched windows feature in a simple industrial design.

Clarendon Works

  • Location: South Melbourne
  • Client: Baron Corporation and Forte Capital Group
  • Category: Commercial
  • Year: 2024
  • Photography: Pier Carthew
  • Country:

    Bunurong Boon Wurrung

  • Scale:

    3 levels plus basement car park.
    1200 sqm (plus 400 sqm basement)

  • Construction Value:

    $6m

  • Builder:

    Tycorp

  • Collaboration:

    Hecker Guthrie
    (Interior Design)

    Slide and Co with Hecker Guthrie
    (Interior Soft Furnishing)

    Nadine Keegan
    (Glass Artist)

The design of this private office building responds to the client’s vision for a simple industrial warehouse environment while maintaining a familiar sense of scale with neighbouring architecture. Open plan interiors with arched windows offer unobstructed views of the sky and the surrounding tree canopy, creating connection to nature.

The building was constructed from precast concrete with a timber boarded finish, which was popularised in the 1960s by Le Corbusier, who famously coined the phrase “béton brut,” representing unfinished concrete. Steel-framed windows and stairs were carefully selected to honour the site’s rich industrial heritage.

A central focal point of the building is the three-story stair void and atrium, flooding the interior workspace with natural light.

A workplace designed to last—a refined, calming space that brings joy to those who work here, adds meaningfully to its neighbourhood and respects the site's heritage.