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A Fashionable Life - Jodhi Meares
1 Sep 2008
HARPERS BAZAAR
Jodhi Meares invites Margaret Merten into her very private home and reveals her next project - stylish abodes for Melbourne’s A-List.
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Nine HQs on the block
15 Dec 2007
HERALD SUN
Fancy parking your car in Eddie’s spot?
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Nine site will go to R. Corp,not Lend Lease
13 Dec 2007
THE AUSTRALIAN
Property giant Lend Lease has missed out on Melbourne’s Channel 9 site.
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Home shows set to roll on studio sites
5 Dec 2007
THE AGE
The building where Graham Kennedy let loose his famous "faark" crow-call and where fans of Bandstand learned the twist and the stomp are believed to have been sold as Channel Nine capitalises on its inner-suburban properties in Melbourne & Sydney.
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Upmarket plans for waste site
16 Oct 2007
HERALD SUN
Andrew Rettig’s R.Corporation is set to turn the former Stonnington waste transfer station into a $110 million residential project.
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R.Corp steams ahead on $70m depot project
1 Nov 2006
THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
Andrew Rettig’s R.Corporation is planning a medium-density residential development worth up to $70 million on a prime infill development site it has snared near trendy Chapel Street in Melbourne.
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Mix of old and new in demand
3 Feb 2006
THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
Where most developers would see a headache, Andrew Rettig saw dollar signs.
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Australian storeys
15 Oct 2005
GOOD WEEKEND SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Our enduring real estate obsession has meant that property development remains as lucrative a trade as ever, prompting more and more amateurs to give it a try.
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Grand plans for triangle
31 Aug 2005
HERALD SUN
St Kilda’s lucrative triangle site is to get an upmarket revamp, and property developer R. Corporation is listed as a front runner.
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Toast of the town
1 Aug 2005
VOUGE LIVING
A historic Melbourne brewery is distilled into an urbane complex of warehouse apartments with a chic fit-out by Philippe Starck.
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Jagger’s girl signs gem of a contract
18 Dec 2004
HERALD SUN
Jade Jagger, daughter of Rolling Stones rocker Sir Mick, has been signed to design housing developments with Melbourne property development company, R. Corporation.
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Supermarket sold
23 Nov 2004
THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
The supermarket at the bottom of the Tribeca apartments in East Melbourne sold last week for $2.6 million.
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Mama rules at former Seven Stones
13 Nov 2004
THE AGE
Shop 3 of St Kilda’s Metropol retail complex at 60 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, will be recognised by some as the former home of Seven Stones, the restaurant cooked up earlier this year for Channel Seven reality television series My Restaurant Rules.
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Rabinov beats big players for office buildings
16 Oct 2004
THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
The listed Rabinov Diversified Property Trust has nearly doubled in size with the $100 million-plus purchase of the buildings leased to GE at the Botanicca office park in Melbourne.
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Nelson eyes Nauru ’column’
16 Oct 2004
THE AGE
As the signatures of RMAC consortium kingpins Guy Nelson and Andrew Rettig dry on the contracts for their Thursday night deal with Rabinov Trust for the sale of three Richmond office buildings for $115 million, talk is growing as to where the duo will spend their hard earned.
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Getting an inner piece of the office action
16 Oct 2004
THE AGE
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Botanicca offices to set record
23 Sep 2004
THE FINANCIAL REVIEW
Macquarie Bank and Melbourne developer R.Corporation are finalising the sale of three office buildings at its new Melbourne office park for an estimated $155 million.
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Developers clinch $200M Burnley sale
23 Sep 2004
THE AGE
The Melbourne site of GE Consumer Finance’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Burnley’s Botanicca Corporate Park, is close to being sold by its developers.
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Starck effect impresses
31 Jul 2004
THE AGE
A renowned French designer has left his singular mark.
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$200M office park for inner-city Melbourne
14 Jul 2004
THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
Melbourne’s R.Corporation and Macquarie bank have received Victorian Government planning permission for a new $200 million office park in inner-city Melbourne.
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Duo takes a punt on Burnley
14 Jul 2004
THE AGE
Nine buildings of up to seven storeys will be built next to Burnley Gardens from Spring as part of a new $200 million commercial development.
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Botanicca’s about to bloom as MacBank plans approved
14 Jul 2004
THE AUSTRALIAN
Macquarie Bank has won planning approval for a $200 million inner Melbourne parklands office development which will house the Asia-Pacific headquarters of financial services giant GE.
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20 more classy chalets for Mt Buller
13 Jun 2004
HERALD SUN
R.Corporation, the developer behind Metropol and East Melbourne’s Tribeca (the 500-apartment redevelopment with design guru Philippe Starck of the Victoria Brewery) has launched a lavish Mt Buller project.
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Metropol owner set to win the reality TV contest
2 Jun 2004
THE EMERALD HILL WEEKLY
It was a 12-week saga that ended in tears. After transforming part of the St Kilda railway station complex into an upmarket restaurant called Seven Stones before millions of television viewers, Peter Georgas and Tayissa Stel lost the fight to keep it this week.
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Starck designs for yoo Australia
23 Oct 2003
THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
Philippe Starck may be on a mission from god, but he is not quite sure.
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Starck reality
23 Oct 2003
DOMAIN- SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Philippe Starck tends to define himself by what he isn’t. The Frenchman is not the first rock star of design, because he lives a simple life and "it’s just the media who attach this seeker to me"
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Trend-bender Rettig a model of success
7 Aug 2003
THE AUSTRALIAN
Supermodel Naomi Campbell launched his first-ever development, and design superstar Philippe Starck the second.
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Tribeca at the treeline
30 Jul 2003
THE AGE
A Melbourne developer is hoping to change the way people perceive alpine accommodation with a 20-apartment complex on Mt Buller.
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Quality Brew
1 Mar 2003
SCENE MAGAZINE
They say that if you want a look you go to Sydney and if you want an idea go to Melbourne.
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STARCK RAVING
1 Jul 2002
MONUMENT MAGAZINE
Philippe Starck, the man who brought design to the masses, has collaborated in the ambitious redevelopment of Melbourne’s Victoria Brewery, bringing to the project his theories of cultural definition and apartment design.
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A new way of living
1 May 2002
LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE
"It’s all about life and living today...the complex is designed to encourage you to use the facilities as an extension of your apartment," says Andrew Rettig of his Metropol development in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda.
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Designer’s chic’s have come home to roost
23 Mar 2002
THE AUSTRALIAN
Picture this. Celebrated French designer Philippe Starck is getting down to business by sloshing around in knee-deep mud and water.
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The Starck touch creates a starkly secretive empire
21 Mar 2002
THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
He came. He saw. He conquered. International star designer and multi-billionaire Philippe Starck had them eating out of his hand yesterday as he informed and entertained Melbourne’s notoriously straight-faced fashion and business community.
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Stark raving stark
16 Mar 2002
GOOD WEEKEND THE AGE MAGAZINE
From lemon juicers and flyswats to baths and hotels, Philippe Starck’s designs are known the world over. Now he’s bringing his starckian vision (read very out there) to Melbourne, where he plans to reinvent apartment living.
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The totally Starck look
6 Feb 2002
THE AGE
Internationally renowned French designer, Philippe Starck, is synonymous with weird and wonderful gadgets
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Launch of a landmark
14 Aug 2000
PORT PHILLIP CAULFIELD LEADER
St Kilda’s $55 million Metropol residential and retail complex will be launched tonight (Monday August 14).
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Metropol St Kilda weekend
12 Feb 2000
HERALD SUN WEEKEND
Wella Australia, Elle magazine and Alex Zotos staged a glamorous dinner in honour of supermodel Naomi Campbell.
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Naomi’s just the ticket for posh nosh
29 Jan 2000
HERALD SUN
Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and James and Jodie Packer are on the guest list invited to an exclusive dinner for model Naomi Campell’s Melbourne visit.
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