R.Evolution: Plus Studio completes nine-year vision for South Melbourne

Urban renewal projects often promise transformation but deliver sameness — generic towers stacked above formulaic retail, wrapped in the rhetoric of community without the substance. R.Evolution, the final stage of Plus Studio‘s nine-year masterplan for R.Corporation’s R.Iconic precinct in South Melbourne, takes a different approach. The 40-storey tower, currently under construction on Normanby Road, concludes a landmark story of urban renewal grounded in materiality and sustain