Crosby Architects

10 Storey Apartment Building behind a heritage facade. The site for this building includes a heritage-listed hotel built in 1850, which has been operating as a pub since 1853, making it the oldest – and longest – licensed pub in Melbourne. The new ten-storey apartment building sits behind the existing buildings in what was once [...]

Retail, Office and Residential Redevelopment This eleven-storey office building, located on the east side of Clarence Street in Sydney’s CBD, was constructed in 1971. This project included: reconstruction of the facade, a new canopy and street level retail and entry, demolition of a rooftop plant room and conversion to three penthouse apartments. There was provision [...]

18 Storey, 67 Unit Serviced Apartment Building. This project consists of a new eighteen-storey serviced apartment building at the rear of the existing Victorian terrace house. The house will operate as a lobby and service area for the sixty-seven one- and two-bedroom apartments. The retention and refurbishment of the existing terrace house ensures that this [...]

  Serviced Apartments An awkward-shaped site on a prominent corner with an existing pub, this project proposed to demolish the pub and erect a serviced apartment building. The facade included areas for large billboard art by artist Nicola Loder. The ground and mezzanine floors incorporate retail and restaurant areas above a basement car park. client Omni [...]

  Residential Renovation This is a proposal to convert a narrow 1920s office building into small open-plan apartments. The joinery is the defining element in each apartment and has an elemental quality in line with the rawness of the old exposed concrete structure of the existing building. Minimal alterations are to be made to the [...]

Hotel and Serviced Apartments This site is located between two heritage-listed buildings – Cavendish House to the north and the Forum Theatre to the south. The Russell Street Theatre, which was built in the 1930s, was a home to the Melbourne Theatre Company from 1966 to 1994. It has been vacant ever since. The existing [...]

High-rise Hotel and serviced apartments The building comprises retail, reception and meeting rooms on the ground floor, a five-storey spiral car park above that and then thirteen floors of apartments, sixty-four large apartments in total. The design attempts to stitch the building into the south-facing streetscape using vertical and horizontal elements of the same scale, [...]

Architectural Competition date 1990 status competition entry