Elenberg Fraser

Completed in 2020, P.M. is a representation of our approach to innovative BTR design, incorporating ideas that have gained popularity in recent years. With P.M., we picked up where Ebenezer Howard left off, creating a 21st-century garden city in resort form, anchoring Port Melbourne’s future. This project features three distinct residential buildings with spectacular views, thoughtfully designed to maximise both urban and beach vistas. With lush landscaping, resort-style amenities, and unique architectural details, P.M. remains a benchmark in creating community-focused, sustainable living spaces. Our approach integrates green spaces and modern conveniences, providing a holistic living experience that set the standard for Build to Rent developments. #BuildToRent

#BuildToRent is shaping the next era of adaptable, inclusive urban living. Leading the space in our practice, Associate Architect Alexandra Gilley discusses how community-focused, inclusive design is essential for the future of BTR, fostering vibrant, multi-generational communities.

We're excited to announce Winn Street has been given town planning approval. Located in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley, Winn Street's twin towers will rise above a three-storey podium, creating a new destination for work, life and play. Filled with residential and public offerings, the towers incorporate 400 build to rent apartments, a work club, leisure and wellness, retail and hospitality. Congratulations to our partner Sungard Property Group, on this landmark development, which seeks to reimagine urban living and community interaction. Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g3TwKsft - #brisbane #townplanning #buildtorent #theurban #urbandeveloper

This year, we celebrate Associate Director David Shultis's remarkable 10-year journey with Fraser & Partners. Beginning his journey as a Team Leader, David’s eye for detail eventually saw him overseeing documentation and delivery for the Melbourne and Brisbane practices. Over the years he’s been responsible some of our (and his) favourite projects across Australia including Premier Tower, Aurora, Aspire, The Eighth, Victoria One, Light House, F.V. and Lotus Tower. While David’s primary role involves peer reviewing architectural and interior design documentation and providing site-based input, it’s his committed focus on compliance that’s been vital to the success of many of our projects. But with 35 years of architectural experience, its David’s commitment to mentoring young architects that will ultimately make the lasting impact to the métier of architecture. Join us as we celebrate his tenure. #FraserandPartners #Architecture #Melbourne #Brisbane

Lotus Tower at 36-48 Lambert Street pushes the boundaries of adaptive and responsive design, connecting residents with the natural environment. Inspired by Avatar’s ‘Hometree’, this building offers housing for Kangaroo Point’s unique intergenerational demographic mix, ensuring there is something for everyone. This project, completed before Build to Rent gained widespread popularity, combines urban lifestyle benefits with proximity to natural features like the Brisbane River and Kangaroo Point cliffs. Its communal spaces and sustainable design subtly showcase our early commitment to creating vibrant, long-term rental communities. Client: R&F Property Australia Photography: Cieran Murphy - #BuildToRent

The Raleigh walks the line between past and future, with a design that echoes Windsor’s architectural heritage with a timeless versatility that will see it evolve with the community it houses, aligning with a successful build-to-rent model. This format creates manifold accessible housing options, encouraging a diverse community by remapping the building to ensure the apartment mix works harder and introducing more amenity and diversity across common spaces. The mix of studio, one, two, and three-bed apartments supports multi-generational living and various lifestyles, anticipating greater diversity in occupants and increased transience for build-to-rent success. Developer Goldfields Group - #buildtorent #architecture #architecturedaily #theurban #urbandeveloper

Melbourne’s Domain Precinct is undergoing a revitalisation, and The Eighth’s methodology seeks to anchor this new shift. Departing from traditional multi-residential planning, The Eighth maximises space utilisation and creates opportunities by breaking the building envelope into micro-buildings. This approach blends office and residential spaces to cater to the diverse lifestyles and demographics of the precinct’s new occupants. Constructed with a traditional concrete frame, the building features a classical structural grid with large, heavy window bays, providing access to natural environments, view lines, and privacy, delivering a sense of permanence and solidity within contemporary architecture. Fraser & Partners - Client: Projects by Crema Builder: Crema Constructions #architecture #theurbandeveloper #theurban

Completed in 2018, Victoria One was the prototype for co-living. Wrapping vibrant community spirit in a façade echoing Victoria's diverse landscapes, Victoria One features 629 apartments, including efficiently designed 55sqm 2-bed, 2-bath apartments, with three floors of communal spaces that touch on the great outdoors and give a sense of community within. These communal spaces include a pool, fitness club, garden lounge retreat, and dining facilities with a kitchen and bar. The fluid facade and nature-inspired interiors create a connected living experience. Green glazing with gold highlights gives a botanic feel, while shimmering silver fins shift like currents or leaves in the rain. Client: Golden Age Group Project Manager: Sinclair Brook Photographer: Peter Clarke Photography - #elenbergfraser #australianarchitecture #archilovers #architecturaldigest #instaarchitecture #architect #archdaily #theurbandeveloper #theurban #coliving

Aspire Melbourne has been shortlisted as a finalist in the High-Density Residential category at The Urban Developer Awards, 2024. Situated near Flagstaff Gardens, Aspire intertwines local and historic stories, representing the origins and future of the precinct. This metaphor of the flagstaff inspired the design of Aspire as a contemporary sculptural object. Boolean techniques give the tower its form with a fabric-like skin that almost billows softly in the wind. The podium is conceived as an organic material field, where the park becomes part of the building itself. The past, present and future of this significant site come together in Aspire, reestablishing Melbourne’s West end as the beating heart of the city. The interiors explore stories of Melbourne during the gold rush era, and Melbourne's historic landscape, weaving them into spaces through a light, neutral palette, natural material selection and bespoke metal details, referencing the search for precious metals. Aspire's swimming pool takes cues from the landscape, presenting as a series of interlinked pools like the formations of a natural water hole. The curved ceiling and walls are lined in custom profiled stone tiles, while above the skylight mimics the geometry of the building, providing a subtle hint of the tower above and bathing the space in natural light, creating an immersive and wellness focused environment. Thanks to ICD Property, Hickory and Sinclair Brook for their efforts in delivering this landmark project. #architecture #melbourne #theurban #theurbandeveloper

Studio 54. That’s all you need on your CV as a hotelier. Ian Schrager took everything he learnt from catering to the world’s jet-set at his legendary 70s New York nightclub and distilled it into his iconic Mondrian hotel brand. Schrager pioneered the “boutique hotel,” creating a whole lot more than just somewhere to bed down for the night. His hotels offer transformative lifestyle experiences and ooze style and opulence. But they also manage to make you feel right at home. And the great news is that, thanks to the Vitale Group, Schrager’s legendary hotel empire is heading for Australia’s own Burleigh Heads. So Elenberg Fraser’s brief was simple: to design a building that befits a legend, while capturing all the things that make this precious stretch of the Gold Coast so unique. We saw an opportunity to find a new way of thinking about Australian coastal architecture, in this instance, “bare-foot luxury.” A place as special as Burleigh Heads cries out for an architectural response that forges an intimate connection between the transcendent natural surroundings and the built environment. The undulating profile of the two towers we’ve designed reflects the voluptuous lines of the sparkling sand dunes and imposing headland, while archways soaring above vast rooms and arcades at ground level echo the ancient caves that honeycomb the coastline. So in the Mondrian Gold Coast, we’ve made the transitions between inside and outside seamless. To be standing within this space in dappled shade cast by architectural forms overhead, watching the waves crash on white sand below is to be immersed in this pristine environment. Cool stone underfoot plays off against warm timber accents in the building’s interiors, just as the hefty trunks of the towering eucalypts in the ancient forest find contrast in Burleigh Heads’ weathered basalt foundations. Everything here ties back to the beach. We’ve evoked the appeal of living in a beach shack with the proximity of sand, sea, sun and waves, but created a place that embodies the hedonism you’d expect of a Mondrian venue. Guests can step straight off the sand onto the wave-like external spiral staircases, and wind their way up to the water garden on top of the building’s three-storey podium. With a cocktail from one of the outdoor bars in hand, they can wade into the pool or hold court in one of the cabanas against the backdrop of Pacific surf crashing on golden sands. This epitomises what’s called the “Burleigh way of life.” And for those who check-in and never want to leave, permanent residences that share facilities with the hotel mean they can sign up for a holiday that never ends. - Photography: Cieran Murphy Renders: Binyan Studios #australianarchitecture #architect #queensland #themondrian #burleigh #theurbandeveloper #theurban