WE’RE PROUD TO BE PART OF THE PRIDE CENTRE >>>

Luxmy is proud to see the result of all of our design collaborations, but this project has particularly warmed our hearts.

Presenting the Victorian Pride Centre designed by James Brearley Architects and Urbanists and Grant Amon Architects.

Australia’s first purpose-built centre for LGBTIQ+ people has opened in the inner-Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. The centre houses a range of community organizations as well as spaces for art, culture, events and collaboration.

“As Australia’s first purpose-built pride centre, this is where everyone can come together, honour the past, celebrate the present, and work towards a more inclusive future,” said Victorian Pride Centre chair Vo Hang.

“It’s a very important community building. It couldn’t be more important. This is the only place where a lot of people will feel comfortable, completely at home and safe,” said architect James Brearley, whose practice James Brearley Architects and Urbanists, along with Grant Amon Architects, won a design competition in 2018 for the project.

A WELCOMING SPACE >>>

The design intent, in addition to exotic, Moorish architecture, the architecture of otherness, and the architecture of suspended belief, was to create a welcoming and user-friendly space.

Through its use of colour and it’s commercial grade comfort, Luxmy's TOPIARY Modular sofa fit the brief and will permit the organisation to reorganise their spec as their needs continue to change and evolve.

The TOPIARY is a soft seating system made for collaborative and agile workspaces available with lounge, bench, armed, corner and coffee table components. It is both a feature and a complementary piece to the building’s stand out architecture and eye catching curves.

““St Kilda is very much about exotic architecture, Moorish architecture, the architecture of otherness, the architecture of escape, the architecture of suspended belief. We looked at some way to capture that and express that in a contemporary way.””