City of Melbourne includes Carlton’s Brutalist Cardigan House car park on heritage review

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“Some of these buildings are very sculptural and beautiful,” he said. “They are important from an embodied energy and materials perspective as well. Retaining existing structures is important from an environmental perspective.”

Wagner said the car park was “quite something” and had the strengths of geometry and rhythm which were characteristic of brutalist architecture.

The final Carlton Heritage Review recommended that 24 new places be covered by the heritage overlay,…

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