From 2001–2005 I was the Principal Design
Architect of CH2 for the City of Melbourne, a 12 000m2 mixed use building in
downtown Melbourne. This building follows the same principles at those
established at Eastgate: the architecture and its visual expression should
respond to the natural, socio-cultural and economic environment of its location
in the same way that an ecosystem in nature is embedded in its site. The
metaphor for Eastgate was the termitary, the metaphor for CH2 is the tree.
CH2 is a mixed development with
retail on the ground floor and with nine floors of offices above. It was completed in September 2006
and occupied in November. A post-occupancy survey was made in 2008 by an
independent surveyor from London. CH2 achieved 6-star as-built rating in
January 2010. It has won numerous awards and international acclaim.