Palace Theatre

20-30 Bourke Street as observed from the steps of Parliament. © Bates Smart

Blink and you'll miss it > The revised Palace Theatre proposal

Thu, 23/10/2014 - 12:00 Laurence Dragomir
Blink and you'll miss the most recent iteration - in a long procession of design proposals - for the Palace Theatre site at 20-30 Bourke Street. The current proposal is the response to the introduction of mandatory height limits to preserve the low-rise, finer grain scale of the Bourke Hill Precinct. Gone is the W Hotel brand, replaced with a 7-storey (4-storey podium + 3-storey hotel), 23m building consisting of 7,195sqm of boutique hotel space...

Palace Theatre redevelopment: Squat! But is it hot to trot?

Tue, 06/05/2014 - 05:42 Mark Baljak
Another chapter today in the evolving public interest story that has become the proposed Palace Theatre demolition and replacement with Australia's first W Hotel at 20-31 Bourke Street. Melbourne City Council have this week published plans for Bates Smart's third revision of the development scheme which sees a shortened, dare I say tubby hotel tower sans its apartment compliment included within the initial planning application. As has been...