Crown Group’s first foray into Melbourne apartments in Southbank set for 2024 completion
Domain
24 March 2019
Melissa Heagney
Media Release: Sturt Street, Southbank Melbourne
…Mr Sunito said the building designed by Koichi Takada Architects would stand as a work of art itself.
Architect Koichi Takada said the distinctive design, which included curved white towers encircled by sinuous white ribbons, were inspired by images in the arts.
“The ribbons will form a beautiful pattern that will gleam white, reflecting the light, creating an ever-changing canvas and a beacon to people in the surrounding area,” Mr Takada said.
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Brick archways topped by rounded glass tower at Arc by Koichi Takada Architects
Dezeen
19 March 2019
by Jon Astbury
Koichi Takada Architects has designed a podium fronted with brick archways as the base of the glass and steel Arc tower in Sydney, Australia.
The mixed-use scheme for developer Crown Group is in a historic area of Sydney’s central business district.
Local firm Koichi Takada Architects combined old and new styles with a robust, arched brick podium surrounding a 26-storey glass and steel tower.
The Arc tower development contains 135 apartments and 86 boutique hotel rooms, with eight shops at street level.
The building is split in two by the publicly accessible Skittle Lane, a pathway from the 1980s that… Read more
Even better than the render
Habitus Living
#43 2019
by Holly Cunneen
Koichi Takada Architects is known for luxury high-rise apartments, rich materiality and expensive finishes. But we find there is much, much more substance to this story than just good looks.
We are living in a day and age where food looks better than it tastes; people and places look better on Instagram than they do in real life; tourism is largely motived by the need to be seen rather than desire to do or experience; and technology is outshining its own creators. Sadly – scarily – this extends to architecture, too. The capability… Read more
Brickworks Decoded: High-Rise Brick & Masonry Architecture
YellowTrace
13 Mar 2019
Arc is featured as part of YellowTrace’s collaborative series with Brickworks Building Products on Australian Architecture that LOVE’S brick!
Aaaaaand… we’re back with our content partnership with our pals from Brickworks Building Products… In this series, we’re focusing on High-rise Brick & Masonry Architecture. Boom! Just in case you hadn’t noticed (but I seriously doubt it), contemporary mid and high rise towers are usually built using materials like concrete, steel, glass and large format claddings.
Alas, I’m sure you’ll agree bricks are amongst the elite group of materials that are hard to beat when it… Read more
Architect of Green Square’s Infinity Tower OK with controversy over his project
Domain
12 March 2019
by Sue Williams
They’ve likened it to a doughnut, an armchair and a rollercoaster and said it was a building so ambitious, dramatic and flamboyant, it’d never actually happen.
Yet the controversial apartment block Infinity in Sydney’s Green Square is now just weeks from completion, with its curves, loops and hole right through the middle creating an enormous stir and a flood of both praise and criticism.
No construction since the Opera House in 1958 has excited as much enthusiasm and ridicule, but architect Koichi Takada doesn’t mind one bit. “It’s a privilege to be talked… Read more
Bogen überspannt: Hochhaus von Koichi Takada in Sydney
BauNetz
14 Feb 2019
Es ist ein auffallendes Gebäude. Mit schon postmoderner Leichtigkeit haben Koichi Takada Architects diesem Hochhaus an der zentralen Skittle Lane in Sydney einen deutlichen Bruch eingearbeitet. Wie sie dem Bau vor die unteren acht Stockwerke eine Art Sockel aus komplex vermauertem Backstein vorblendeten und es dann gläsern-glatt in die Höhe schießen lassen, wirkt wie eine Collage aus römischer Antike und International Design. Dabei haben die Architekten und die Bauherrin Crown International Holdings Group dem Wohn- und Geschäftshaus einen schnörkellosen Namen gegeben, der das alles verbindende Motiv dieses ambivalenten Projekts benennt: Der Bogen, the Arc.
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Architecturally-Designed Beach Side Abodes That Stole Our Imagination
Habitus Living
20 Feb 2019
Holly Cunneen
NEWPORT HOUSE
This waterfront retreat designed by iconic Australian-Japanese architect Koichi Takada is the epitome of an Australian dream home, adorned with a private beach, garden and open-plan living.
Koichi, in collaboration with JGroup Projects & Development, quickly uncovered that the concept needed to reflect the owner’s love of the outdoors; an openness of space and beach lifestyle, offering constant opportunities to connect with nature.… Read more
This is Sydney’s First Boutique Serviced Apartments In Its Central Business District
Robb Report
20 Feb 2019
Skye Suites Sydney opened in October last year with a roster of 73 studios. Guests can opt between single or double bedroom suites, located on seven floors of the Arc Sydney; itself a recently inaugurated 25-storey multi-residential building. Designed by Koichi Takada, the structure includes a clever pedestrian thoroughfare linking to Kent, Clarence and King streets, including historic Skittle Lane.
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Beauty is in the Details for this Tower in Sydney
Åvontuura
14 Feb 2019
Karl van Es
Koichi Takada Architects completes Arc, its latest mixed-use residential tower in Sydney’s CBD. The project won the City of Sydney Design Excellence Competition in 2013 and spans the width of a whole city block fronting both Clarence Street and Kent Street in the historic precinct of central Sydney. The building combines old and new, a handcrafted brick podium and an organic roof feature designed to add more character to the future of Sydney.
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Crown brings nature to heart of LA
The Australian
16 Feb 2019
Ben Wilmont
When the time came for Sydney’s Crown Group to take the big development leap into the US, there was little question who business founder Iwan Sunito would call upon — celebrated Japanese Australian architect Koichi Takada.
The pair have created architec-turally unique buildings around Australia and their vision offshore is no different.
Their planned Sky Trees tower sporting an undulating timber canopy referencing Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe’s “flying skirt” moment, in Los Angeles, is designed to resonate with the city’s celebrated street culture.
The developer and architect had previously collaborated on a… Read more
