Vision Apartments

Residential skyscraper built in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Vision Apartments
Vision apartments in September 2023

General information
Status	Completed
Location	500 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Victoria
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 2024, the skyscraper is the seventeenth–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.^[1] 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.^[2]^[3] The proposal included more than 500 residential apartments spanning across 69 levels, in addition to three basement levels.^[4]

Approval for the project was granted in November 2012, by the then–Planning Minister, Matthew Guy.^[5] Construction on the $400–500 million project commenced in October 2013, whereby a completion date was estimated for some time in mid–2016.^[5]^[6] 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.^[7] By July 2016, the skyscraper had topped out, and had been completed a few months later.^[2]

Vision Apartments is currently the fifth–tallest residential building within the Melbourne CBD core, the ninth tallest residential building in Melbourne, and the seventeenth–tallest building in Melbourne overall.^[2]

Gallery

Vision under construction, in January 2015
Vision under construction, in October 2015
Vision under construction, in November 2015

References

^ Pallisco, Marc. (29 February 2009). "Major Apartment Planned For The Stork Hotel Site, CBD". Real Estate Source. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Vision Apartments - The Skyscraper Center. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^ (10 November 2014) "Construction Commences on Melbourne CBD’s Tallest Building". TheUrbanDeveloper. Retrieved 26 January 2015
^ Masanauskas, Jason. (22 October 2013). "Government declares high density is important as work starts on 72-storey tower". Herald Sun. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
^ ^a ^b Walsh, Alistair. (1 November 2012). "Vision, the tallest approved residential building in Melbourne CBD, begins marketing". PropertyObserver. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
^ (28 October 2013) "Construction starts on tallest residential building in Melbourne's city centre". Urbanalyst. Retrieved 26 January 2015
^ Lucas, Clay. (29 October 2015). "Ooops! Developer fails to build two promised levels of underground parking". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 October 2016.

External links

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Official website

Skyscrapers in Melbourne over 150 metres in height

Completed

Over 300 m	Australia 108 (316 m, 2020)
250–299 m	Eureka Tower (297 m, 2006) Aurora Melbourne Central (270 m, 2019) West Side Place Tower A (268 m, 2021) 120 Collins Street (265 m, 1991) 101 Collins Street (260 m, 1991) Prima Pearl (254 m, 2014) Rialto Towers (251 m, 1986)
200–249 m	Queens Place North Tower (249 m, 2021) Victoria One (246 m, 2018) Premier Tower (249 m, 2021) Swanston Central (237 m, 2019) Melbourne Square Tower 1 (231 m, 2021) Vision Apartments (229 m, 2016) 568 Collins Street (224 m, 2015) Bourke Place (224 m, 1991) Light House Melbourne (218 m, 2017) Telstra Corporate Centre (218 m, 1992) 380 Melbourne (217 m, 2021) Melbourne Central (211 m, 1991) West Side Place Tower B (206 m, 2021) Freshwater Place North (205 m, 2005) Eq. Tower (203 m, 2017)
150–199 m	Empire Melbourne (198 m, 2017) Collins House (190 m, 2018) Abode318 (187 m, 2015) 80 Collins South (187 m, 2019) Sofitel Hotel (185 m, 1980) ANZ Tower (185 m, 1978) Nauru House (182 m, 1977) LK Tower (178 m, 2019) MY80 (173 m, 2014) Melbourne Square Tower 2 (226 m, 2021) Victoria Police Centre Tower 2 (171 m, 2020) Upper West Side Tower 5 (170 m, 2016) 385 Bourke Street (169 m, 1983) Zen Apartments (168 m, 2012) Platinum Tower One (167 m, 2016) Avant (167 m, 2018) Australian Stock Exchange Building (167 m, 1991) Southbank Place (166 m, 2018) Casselden Place (166 m, 1992) 35 Spring Street (166 m, 2017) The Fifth (166 m, 2017) Ernst & Young Tower (165 m, 2005) SX Stage 1 (163 m, 2005) Royal Domain Tower (162 m, 2005) ANZ World Headquarters (162 m, 1993) National Bank House (161 m, 1978) 2 Southbank Boulevard (161 m, 2005) Verve 501 (159 m, 2006) 477 Collins Street (158 m, 2019) Upper West Side Tower 2 (156 m, 2014) Shadow Play (153 m, 2018) Southbank Central (153 m, 2017) Optus Centre (153 m, 1975) Crown Towers (152 m, 1997) 140 William Street (152 m, 2005) Urban Workshop Lonsdale (150 m, 2005)

Melbourne skyline in 2015

Under construction

200–249 m	West Side Place Tower D (239 m, 2022) Shangri-La by the Gardens (231 m, TBA) West Side Place Tower C (230 m, 2022) Sapphire by the Gardens (218 m, TBA)

Approved

Over 250 m	Green Spine Tower 1 (366 m, TBA) 25–35 Power Street (280 m, TBA) Green Spine Tower 2 (252 m, TBA)
200–249 m	Queens Place South Tower (251 m, TBA) Elysium (244 m, TBA)
150–199 m	Melbourne Square Tower 5 (180 m, TBA) Melbourne Square Tower 3 (175 m, TBA) Melbourne Square Tower 4 (175 m, TBA) Full list of approved projects