Positioned on a corner block, Cassell Street, South Yarra uses bespoke materials treatment appropriate for its highly visible urban location. The complex travertine façade is made up of 10 different sized slabs of stone laid in bands sourced from opposite sides of the same quarry producing two distinct colours. The banding quality of the stone façade is referential of Byzantine buildings in a reference to the owner’s heritage. The limited material palate of natural and aged materials such as travertine, rusticated timber, concrete & steel cast over a strong rectilinear form to give the building the quality of looking older than it is – to look as though it could have existed in an another world year ago. The exterior materials seamlessly carry into the interiors, mixed with a warm palette of warm greys, stainless steel, natural timber and soft lighting.