Project Paragon Queen Street

Paragon is a mixed-use, 48-level residential tower on a prominent corner of Melbourne’s CBD. Redeveloping and retaining the iconic façade of the Melbourne Celtic Club on this site, the tower has been designed to accommodate 227 residences with an “urban forest” – transforming a piece of the cityscape into a private sky garden.

For Paragon, Beulah brought its transformative research and design-driven approach to a prominent corner site in the heart of the bustling Melbourne CBD. Collaborating once again with the renowned architectural studio of Fender Katsalidis, at the time this project would be Beulah’s largest to date in terms of scale, yet would lose none of its trademark attention to detail.

From the beginning, it was agreed that the heritage of the site’s original building – the Melbourne Celtic Club – would be projected, restored and celebrated. As well as retaining the façade of this 19th-century corner pub, the façade of the glass tower rising above features an elegant pattern derived from Celtic culture. Through this response, the tower is both respectful and refined.