Image credit: AKAS Landscape Architecture
The owners corporation of this large complex of residential apartments in East Melbourne has created an urban cool green oasis for residents and the public to enjoy, in the face of Melbourne’s warming climate.
Tribeca accommodates a retail precinct, offices and a small supermarket, and therefore attracts many users. The population growth of Melbourne’s CBD has placed pressure on public usage of the common property plaza, with large volumes of pedestrians using the connecting hot concrete alleyway between Albert Street and Victoria Street as a thoroughfare. The set of buildings incorporates significant public and private paved space which originally had little greening.
As part of this greening project, lush mature trees now line a narrow paved laneway, and a plaza area is adorned with curving garden beds planted with a range of Australian native subtropical plants.
The innovative landscape design of this greening project would provide significant environmental and community benefits.
The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past and present. We acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.
We accept the invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart and are committed to walking together to build a better future.