Hotel living, without the hotel: inside 18 Barry St, Kew

AT A GLANCE: 

• Developer: Piccolo House 
• Builder: Hamilton Marino
• Architect: Woods Bagot
• Address: 18 Barry Street, Kew, VIC 3101
• Estimated Completion Date: Late 2027

There’s a particular kind of ease that comes with staying in a great hotel. The concierge who knows your name. The spa downstairs. The bedroom suites that make unwinding a luxury. It’s a feeling most people assume they’ll have to leave behind when coming back home.

Piccolo House’s 18 Barry St in Kew was designed to prove otherwise.

A wellness precinct brings five-star living home

18 Barry St, Kew is a precinct comprising five finely scaled buildings, home to architect-designed residences and its own wellness centre.

Tucked into the garden level, this space draws on Japanese Zen and European spa traditions. Residents have access to an indoor thermal pool, cold plunge, sauna, and private treatment room, one that’s set up to accommodate your own specialists should you wish to bring them on-site.

A well-equipped gymnasium opens out to garden views, and a flexible yoga studio caters to solo sessions or small group classes. It is truly the kind of infrastructure you’d expect from a five-star resort. Here, it’s part of coming home.

Your own concierge, your own valet

From the moment you arrive, the experience is considered from the get-go. A grand porte cochère leads to a valet service, so parking is never a thought.

The concierge team greets you as you enter the lobby, and is on hand to accept deliveries, coordinate guest arrivals, and, perhaps most importantly, help build the kind of community that makes a building feel like a neighbourhood.

“To create a sense of community, we start by designing the right spaces, spaces where people can gather if they choose to,” explained Michael Piccolo, managing director of Piccolo House.

“The concierge is a big part of it, too.

“Their role isn’t just to look after the building; it’s to create opportunities for residents to come together, hosting events, making introductions.”

This hotel-like service gives you the confidence that the details are being looked after.

Spaces made for living, together and apart

Shared spaces at Piccolo House are genuinely worth sharing. A subterranean wine cellar offers residents their own lockable temperature-controlled wine fridge, alongside a tasting table for easy entertaining. A dedicated golf simulator suite, styled with a nod to the sport’s Scottish roots, is there for a solo session after work or a round with friends.

When visitors come to stay, the bookable hotel-style guest suite takes care of them in style. This means your own home stays yours entirely. In a development where residences are already generously oversized, it’s the kind of detail that transforms a three-bedroom home into something that lives more like a four, with space to spare for a dedicated study, a sitting room, or morning pilates.

One of Melbourne’s most prestigious addresses

Outside the front door, prestigious Kew and its best offerings await.

Barry Street sits within Kew’s Studley Park precinct, one of Melbourne’s most established and tightly held enclaves. Heritage homes line leafy streets, Studley Park and Yarra Bend are moments away on foot, and Kew Junction’s vibrant cafés and shops are just minutes from your doorstep.

The development itself responds to its surroundings rather than competing with them: five pavilion buildings architecturally designed by Woods Bagot emerge gently from a landscape crafted by Acre, drawing on European and local planting traditions. It is a corner of Melbourne that rarely becomes available, and rarely looks like this when it does.

The residences

Piccolo House offers a collection of two- and three-bedroom residences and penthouses, each designed by Hecker Guthrie with the practicalities of real life in mind. Soaring three-metre ceilings, full-size laundries, butler’s pantries, bespoke storage solutions, and expansive terraces – every detail has been considered for how people actually live.

Residences are priced from $2.2 million for two-bedroom homes and from $2.88 million for three-bedroom homes, with penthouse pricing available on request.

Construction is already underway, with completion expected in late 2027.

Click here to learn more or to enquire about 18 Barry St, Kew.