Melbourne’s Southbank precinct is set to welcome a striking new addition this summer, with the $150 million Hannah St. Hotel preparing to open its doors. The bold boutique property is the latest project from Collection by TFE Hotels and is purpose built to reflect the culture, creativity and rhythm of the city’s southern edge.
Developed by Time & Place in partnership with Hickory, MaxCap Group and TFE Hotels, Hannah St. Hotel forms part of the landmark Queensbridge precinct, a mixed use development designed to revitalise Southbank and complement the nearby $1.7 billion Melbourne Arts Precinct transformation.
Designed by Melbourne’s award winning Flack Studio, the 188 room hotel blends art, architecture, music and hospitality into a layered experience that feels distinctly Melbourne, where grit meets glamour and old meets new.
Interior architect David Flack describes the project as a career highlight. “We wanted to create a building that feels like it’s always been here, part grand hotel, part underground bar, part cultural clubhouse. Spaces that feel layered and nostalgic, but completely of now.”
The hotel’s triangular lot and dramatic façade, drawing comparisons to New York’s Flatiron Building, boldly embraces its position alongside the Kings Way overpass, becoming a striking new landmark within the Queensbridge Building, a 65 storey residential and lifestyle tower.
Inside, guests will discover a mix of custom furniture, expressive colours, collectable art and bold materiality, all hallmarks of the Flack Studio aesthetic. The design ethos, says Flack, is “modern nostalgia,” not replicating a single era but expressing the layered character of the building, neighbourhood and city itself. “If you’d taken one of the grand buildings of New York and renovated it again and again over the decades you’d end up with something layered, something refined. That’s what we’ve done here. It feels old and contemporary at the same time,” Flack explained.
Anchoring the hotel is The Clubhouse, a multi level hub dedicated to lifestyle, movement and connection. Guests can swim laps in the sculptural 25 metre pool, unwind in the sauna, recharge in wellness spaces or work out in the gym. For those blending business with leisure, co working studios, meeting rooms and breakout lounges are available.
Evenings shift the energy, with rooftop cocktails on the garden terrace, private dinners in an Izakaya style dining room and intimate gatherings in social spaces designed for atmosphere rather than scale.
The hotel also offers flexible co working areas, a podcast studio, two conference rooms and an indoor rooftop event space with sweeping views of the Melbourne skyline, all intended to inspire collaboration and creativity.
Tim Price, Director of Time & Place, says the goal was to create a place with substance and timelessness. “Our aspiration is to be the neighbourhood’s gathering place, like the old corner milk bar, part of people’s daily routine, where inside and outside spaces blur.”
Hannah St. Hotel will open this summer at 19 Walker Street, Southbank.
For more details: hannahsthotel.com | tfehotels.com
