Spectacular Livingstone Gardens sets the bar high for premium Aged Cage

Livingstone Gardens is a magnificent new development for Blue Cross Community Care, comprising of a four-storey, 168 bed aged care facility offering day care centre and all communal areas in one expansive building. Livingstone Gardens is designed as Melbourne’s premium aged care facility with palatial interiors, a grand entrance and dazzling glass lift wells wrapped in a green wall.

Future expansion has been included in the design, including a 50 bed extension and 7 storey building connected by a covered link which will offer 74 Independent Living Units. The entire site is serviced by a 5,000m² basement carpark.

WGE were involved in key project features including:

• Multi-winged, self-contained floorplates including dementia and high-care living
• Six dining rooms and lounges, 10 sitting rooms, hairdressers and medical consulting suites
• Commercial kitchens, linen and laundry operations
• Optimised central plant servicing strategy and building management system
• Multi-functional Electrical, Communications, Security and Nurse Call systems with common IP backbone
• Entrance curved steel arbour feature
• Bespoke glass lifts
• Complex front atria consisting of a ‘hanging’ feature 8m high x 16m long steel truss designed and detailed to achieve critical deflection limits for the fully glazed roof and walls.

As the team behind many of Australia’s state of the art aged care facilities and communities, WGE offers experience in technical aged cared design combined with a high care factor to ensure the facility is warm and welcoming as well as functional.