from Australia). “Benshemesh was a staunch advocate for the high-rise apartment dwelling. He states emphatically his belief that the future is in the high-rise apartment block, where the access to services, availability of resources, and social condensation were more economical, affordable and transferrable – particularly to counter the ills that large housing presented to ‘retired couples, spinsters, widows, single people etc.’ . He presented the benefits of apartments, particularly those of limited mobility, finances and time: “a more compact space provides more leisure hours and less cleaning work, no garden problems…and also brings them closer to stores, theatres and recreation areas”. This rhetoric was in contrast to some proponents of the continuation of the quarter acre blocks who opined that the concentration of these ‘types’ of people into high-rises would merely create vertical slums. However as Benshemesh states, the typical housing solution tended to appeal to the ‘family man’ as opposed to the perceived minorities listed earlier”. Mordechai Benshemesh’s Edgewater Towers was "one of the dozens of images included in '45 Storeys', an exhibition of Melbourne Jewish Architects" in 1993. A City of Port Phillip Heritage Recognition Plaque was unveiled at Edgewater Towers 23 September 2017 acknowledging Mordechai Benshemesh: “Designed by architect Mordechai Benshemesh and built in 1961, Edgewater Towers was Melbourne's first privately developed high rise apartment block. Its multi-storey slab construction and international style promised Melburnian's sophisticated living with a beautiful view.” Mordechai Benshemesh featured in the exhibition of post-war Modernist architecture in Melbourne "Excavating Modernism" together with other prominent architects Ernest Fooks, Kurt Popper and Herbert Tisher. "These architects contributed to the socio-cultural landscape and Melbourne's development at the time, particularly in the south-eastern suburbs". “Colloquially known as ‘Mr High-rise”, it is interesting to note that Benshemesh still integrated many aspirations of the ‘Great Australian Dream’ expected – that being light, air, space, access to vegetation and greenery, and community. In fact in the radio interview given in 1960 he addressed the call to action that the apartment should include “open space, verdant space, plenty of recreation areas and playing grounds are most essential” – with a look to international examples in Sweden, Denmark, and the US. His apartment buildings prominently featured communal spaces – rooftops, foyers, laundries, and gardens, with apartments often having a focus on their access to outdoors, or at least an external recreation space." "For Benshemesh, it becomes apparent the influence that his