edgewater towers located at 12 marine parade, st kilda, was constructed in 1959-1960. when construction was complete the tower was advertised in the age as "everything you'd find in a manhattan building, only minutes from collins street". it was the first high rise apartment block in st kilda, and one of the first in melbourne. the tower supports 100 one bedroom and two bedroom apartments all with balconies, laundry and garbage disposal chutes, lounge rooms and dinettes. throughout the 1960s numerous planning permits were permitted to allow enclosed balconies. edgewater towers is an example of international style modernism, and is constructed largely out of reinforced concrete. the city of port phillip's heritage listing notes that it was "the first of st kilda's residential highrise developments". the listing goes further to state "it still plays an important symbolic role in the perception of st kilda's character and imagery...standing somewhat like a towering section of a stranded ocean liner, it announces st kilda's uniquely nautical cosmopolitan zone at its southern approaches."