time in Tel Aviv studying architecture had on his practice in Melbourne. Known for its extensive influence of the Bauhaus, Tel Aviv features over 4,000 modernist style buildings built between 1920 and 1940. Within the construction of these buildings was a new dynamic, that of urban densification unseen of at the time: over 4,000 people per square kilometer, which presented itself programmatic and social challenges. These challenges, such as the treatment of interstitial spaces such as the thresholds between public and private, began to manifest in the role of the balcony and vegetated space in the development of these apartment buildings. Here, we see that this social condition is carried over the antipodean environment Benshemesh ended up in. Whilst Benshemesh was known amongst friends and colleagues to have preferred working on high-rise constructions and not on private house commissions, this doesn't mean there wasn't still consideration of the end-user as an individual as opposed to a collective". List of works While at Ray Johnson's: 1946 - 40 & 42 Southey Street, 3 Tennyson Street late 40s - 21 Mitford Street, St Kilda, 55 & 62 Hotham Street, East St Kilda As sole practitioner: 1951 - 124 Balaclava Road, Caulfield - Two storey flats 1951 – Blackshaws Road, Spotswood – Factory 1951 - 38 Westbury Street, St Kilda East - Three storey flats 1955– 289 Barkly Street, St Kilda – Three storey flats (Barkly Lodge) 1955 – 614 St Kilda Road, Melbourne – Flats (Elizabeth Lodge) Demolished. 1957 – 26 Toorak Road West, South Yarra – Four storey flats (Gilbert Court) 1959 – 43-44 Marine Parade, St Kilda – Three storey flats 1959 – 11 Marine Parade, St Kilda – Four storey flats (Bay View Marina) c1959 - 11 Burnett Street, St Kilda - Three storey flats (Burnett Lodge) 1960 – 12 Marine Parade, St Kilda – 13 storey apartments (Edgewater Towers) 1960 – Toorak Road, South Yarra – 11 storey apartments (Pavic Investments) Not built. 1960 – St Kilda Road, Melbourne – Danglow Wing (Montefiore Home for the Aged) 1960 – 8 Westbury Street, St Kilda East – Three storey flats (Wolverton) (Westbury Co-operative Housing Society Ltd) 1961 – 166 Toorak Road West, South Yarra – Seven storey flats (St Ives) 1962 – 52 Queens Road, Albert Park – Palm Lake Motel Altered. 1963 – 21 The Esplanade, St Kilda – Ten storey flats (Questa Heights) 1967 – 610 St