28/08/2026
This is a new building. From the street, it doesn’t announce itself.
The front is narrow. It sits alongside a row of cottages and has to fit in; low, fine grained, unassuming.
Swipe on and the same building runs long down the side, facing the back of a commercial strip. Service doors, roller shutters, plant. A completely different neighbour, so a completely different response.
One building. Two conversations.
That’s what it takes to put new density into an established street. Not preservation, a new building that earns its place.
Sometimes the strategy becomes invisible. That’s the way it should be.
Spring Street, Port Melbourne. Developed and built by symeprojects
📍 Port Melbourne, City of Port Phillip