LIV Munro is the first stage of the broader Munro development, incorporating community spaces, hotel, affordable housing, city library and activated laneways. Sited within the Munro precinct delivered by PDG in collaboration with the City of Melbourne, the residential tower is designed by Bates Smart architects for Mirvac.

Fundamentally of the market, the LIV Munro tower draws on the energy and vitality of the area’s heritage architecture and fine-grained spaces. The brick and concrete detailing of the podium respects the traditional language of the market shopfronts, while active frontages along the façade act in dialogue with public spaces. Multiple pedestrian linkages are also introduced throughout the site.

The hotel-occupied podium’s double lobby adds a complimentary ground level activation to the apartment tower and works in partnership with the Six Degrees community hub to create a sympathetic, human scaled and textured interface.

The tower’s cylindrical form is conceived as a building in the round at the intersection of the Hoddle and Northern grids. Perceived at all sides, LIV Munro stands out amongst its rectilinear neighbours and the lower scale of the market.