Civic activation at 55 Collins Street

Melbourne’s 55 Collins is rich in architectural history. Its pair of towers were designed by I.M. Pei’s practice in collaboration with Bates Smart and McCutcheon in the 1970s. Indeed, the building was Australia’s largest mixed-use project when completed in 1981, and the tallest in Melbourne until 1986. It remains to this day a landmark precinct at the Paris End of Collins Street. “Great architecture is not just inherited; it must be reinterpreted,” says Andrew