Design Choices | Melbourne Place

Melbourne Place | Kennedy Nolan | Photographer: Anson Smart
This CPD session will cover the design and delivery of Melbourne Place Hotel.  Melbourne Place was developed as an independent hotel which was designed to offer a point of difference to the global brands which dominate the Melbourne hotel market.


Design Choices | Melbourne Place
Available On-Demand
1 Formal CPD Point


About the Session

This CPD session will cover the design and delivery of the Melbourne Place Hotel. 

 

Melbourne Place was developed as an independent hotel which was designed to offer a point of difference to the global brands which dominate the Melbourne hotel market. 

This project was unusual because Kennedy Nolan was responsible for the design of the building, the interiors, and assisting in developing a unique brand for the hotel – elements which are usually completed by disparate and unconnected entities.  The result is a project with a high degree of design integration across every element. 

 

The project was also one of the first projects approved through a design process strongly influenced by the City of Melbourne’s Central Melbourne Design Guide.  As such, the building represents a building type which draws strongly on the heritage of the CBD and on buildings which are focused on contributing to the urban realm. 

 

 

NSCA 2021 Performance Criteria

PROJECT INITIATION AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN 

  • PC18: Be able to apply creative imagination, design precedents, research, emergent knowledge and critical evaluation in formulating and refining concept design options, including the exploration of three dimensional form and spatial quality.
  • PC25: Be able to draw on knowledge from the history and theory of architecture as part of preliminary design research and when developing the conceptual design.
  • PC29: Be able to develop and evaluate design options in terms of the heritage, cultural and community values embodied in the site, and in relation to project requirements.
  • PC30: Be able to explore options for siting a project, including integrating information and analysis of relevant cultural, social and economic factors.
  • PC32: Be able to apply planning principles and statutory planning requirements to the site and conceptual design of the project.

 

DETAILED DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION 

  • PC39: Be able to integrate the material selection, structural and construction systems established in the conceptual design into the detailed design and documentation.

 

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this session, participants will be able to: 

  • Be able to apply creative imagination, design precedents, research, emergent knowledge and critical evaluation in formulating and refining concept design options, including the exploration of three-dimensional form and spatial quality.
  • Be able to draw on knowledge from the history and theory of architecture as part of preliminary design research and when developing conceptual design.
  • Be able to develop and evaluate design options in terms of the heritage, cultural, and community values embodied in the site, and in relation to project requirements.
  • Be able to explore options for sitting on a project, including integrating information and analysis of relevant cultural, social, and economic factors.
  • Be able to apply planning principles and statutory planning requirements to the site and conceptual design of the project.
  • Understand how the integration of material selectionstructural, and construction systems impact design outcomes.

 

Your Facilitator

 

 

 

 

  

 PATRICK KENNEDY | FRAIA

PRINCIPAL KENNEDY NOLAN 

 

Patrick Kennedy is a founding partner of Kennedy Nolan.  He helped establish and continues to lead the practice’s distinctive design direction.  In addition to practice, Patrick is an active contributor to the Australian Institute of Architects, has taught at the University of Melbourne and regularly engages with the design world through talks and writing.  Patrick was a foundation member of the Boyd Circle and is now on the board of the Robin Boyd Foundation, which seeks to influence public policy in the progressive spirit of Robin Boyd.

 

Over several decades, Patrick has helped guide the steady growth of Kennedy Nolan to be an established design and thought leader.

 

 

Price

Members: $79 
Student members: FREE 
Non-members: $149 

 

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When
27/05/2026 1:00 PM - 25/05/2029 2:00 PM
AUS Eastern Standard Time
Where
AUSTRALIA

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