Developers Writing the Rulebook on Over-Rail Developments

Building a tower above a working metro station means designing around infrastructure that runs on its own schedule.

The station keeps running no matter what and trains don’t stop for construction, so everything else has to adapt.

This is the challenge The Living Company is now tackling, more than a decade after it acquired a Swanston Street site for its State Library Exchange student accommodation tower, well before its own structural works could begin.

A decade underground