Interior Design Reference

Interior Design of Media House, Docklands by Batessmart. Fairfax’s new head office is located on the edge of Melbourne’s Docklands. The project accommodates all of The Age editorial staff in a single slate-of-the-art facility; the building is home to an expanding group of Fairfax media holdings in print broadcast and on-line formats.

Media House, Docklands - Batessmart

The site – on the corner of Collins and Spencer Streets – is the “hinge” between historic Melbourne – the City grid, and emerging Melbourne. the rapidly expanding  Docklands district. Sited directly opposite Southern Cross Station, Media House occupies a similar Collins Street frontage.

Media House, Docklands - Batessmart

The building’s low.rise linear form is accentuated by a generous north-facing colonnade that provides a covered public walkway along to length. allowing the buildings interior to be experienced horn outside.

Media House, Docklands - Batessmart

At street level, the transparent ground floor is designed to work as an extension of the street, where the public can access The Age Gallery, The Age Shop and a cafe and plaza. An inclined plaza provides generously landscaped areas watered from underground tanks which use water recovered horn the building’s roof areas.

Media House, Docklands - Batessmart

The plaza ends ingenerous steps and ramps providing direct access to an indoor-outdoor cafe. The building is an assembly of long, horizontal forms which reflect the linear flows of information within, as well as the dynamism of new media and even the familiar rolled form of the home-delivered Age.

Media House, Docklands - Batessmart

Media House will establish Fairfax in its rightful place as the dominant media organisation in Melbourne; just as Southern Cross Station is the transport hub of the City. Media House will become the information and media hub, with a bold and confident public presence.

Media House, Docklands - Batessmart

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