“I guess where we add value is in our finer-grain approach,” says Michael McCormack of the boutique firm he co-founded a decade ago.
Michael McCormack was isolating at home as the 10th anniversary party of his Milieu property group got under way. So he beamed in with a video message, talking tightly cropped in front of an anonymous wall.The interior of 231 Napier Street in Fitzroy, designed by Edition Office for Milieu.I imagined a beautifully nuanced open-plan layout in which pale oak floorboards lead the eye out over floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors to an expansive balcony – ideally north-facing.
McCormack was in his late 20s and working for a big property developer when he decided his values didn’t align. He wanted to develop homes for people who, like him, appreciate good design, want to live in the inner city, and are environmentally conscious and community minded.“I bought a block of land in Fitzroy with a terrace house on it, demolished it and built five townhouses for us and people like us who didn’t want to live too far out or in an inner-city tower block,” he recalls.
“The alliances are about trying to learn from each other and share ideas to improve what we’re doing in our neighbourhoods,” he says. - An 11,000 square metre site in Elsternwick, where it is working on a six-building village in tandem with high-profile businessman and philanthropist Daniel Besen;
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