Studio Description:

ALL-STAR Studio is set at the centre of a ‘dead zone’ that is eating the heart out of St Kilda...

Formerly one of the city’s liveliest inner urban cultural precincts, St Kilda’s Fitzroy Street has struggled under the weight of mass popularity and has drifted out of fashion. The street’s reputation, as the home of Melbourne’s richest, weirdest soup of sub-cultures and misfits has worn too thin. So thin that it now risks a slow death or being swamped by a tide of conventional development. The recent success of “The Block” in Fitzroy Street is a warning sign of this impending blandness - and the social and cultural costs required to achieve it.

This studio believes that this price is unacceptably high, that social division and cultural segregation are signs of failure not success. We believe that St Kilda’s traditional identity as a ‘culture of sub-cultures’ offers the social and cultural foundation on which Fitzroy Street's impending upcycle can be launched. This studio aims to demonstrate how urban vision and architectural design can take a leading role.

ALL-STAR: from the penniless to the fattest cats in town, there's a place for all sorts here.

Students:

• Nick Dawes

• Sharon Cheung

• Qiu Xiaopeng

• David Tennant

• Cassie Zhu

• Eden Zhang

• Pebbles Thijssen

• Miao Wang

• Liv Wetherall

• Prue Stoyles

• Iris Gan

• Santi Leguizamon Montoya

• Frances Liu

• Linfeng Chen

• Valerie Wong

• Sarah Camilleri

Guest Speakers + Critics:

Huge thanks to our guest speakers + critics for supporting the studio so generously by sharing their skills, experience + time:

• Tanja Heil (City of Port Phillip)

• Alex Ray (Hayball)

• Robert McGauran (MGS | McGauran Giannini Soon);

• Ann Lau (Hayball)

• Steve Whitford (BAU)

• Rob Polglase (MSD)

• James Brearley (BAU)

• Robyn Pollock (MSD)

• Grant Amon (Grant Amon Architects)