Vision Apartments is a residential skyscraper built in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. As of 2024, the skyscraper is the seventeenthâÂÂtallest building in Melbourne.
By early 2009, the Brady Group were proposing to build a residential skyscraper on a site adjacent to the Queen Victoria Market car park. The 1,030 m<sup>2</sup> site, which previously hosted a 150âÂÂyearâÂÂold hotel, was bought at an auction for $AUD11.8 million by the property developer, in 2008. After minor changes to design, The Brady Group officially reâÂÂlaunched the project in 2011, wherein plans were tabled for a residential skyscraper which would reach in height. The proposal included more than 500 residential apartments spanning across 69 levels, in addition to three basement levels.
Approval for the project was granted in November 2012, by the thenâÂÂPlanning Minister, Matthew Guy. Construction on the $400âÂÂ500 million project commenced in October 2013, whereby a completion date was estimated for some time in midâÂÂ2016. During construction, the Melbourne City Council discovered that two of three basement car-park levels had not been constructed, despite being present within the 2011 plans for the project; nevertheless, the developer had submitted minor planning amendments to Minister Guy, as to reflect the failure to build the two additional levels. By July 2016, the skyscraper had topped out, and had been completed a few months later.
Vision Apartments is currently the fifthâÂÂtallest residential building within the Melbourne CBD core, the ninth tallest residential building in Melbourne, and the seventeenthâÂÂtallest building in Melbourne overall.