Business View Magazine | May 2020

64 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MAY 2020 Destination LIVING The Destination Living team has over two decades of experience in running both a creative architecture practice and a custom- building company, all based in Melbourne. Over that time, they have streamlined to better meet the needs of clients, creating a simple, unified and collaborative process from the initial brief to completion of stunning, beautifully designed residences. The overall result is a full-service solution for creating luxury, custom-built homes by a Melbourne collective of residential architects, interior designers and builders who approach every project with creative and pragmatic thinking. Mike Costa, co-founder of Destination Living, started the initial program in 2010. He recalls, “Everything morphed from there with a lot added to the singular vision I had at the very beginning. Before that I ran a large building company in Melbourne that was one of the top 15 builders by volume at one point. Having run the business with a large number of people, the biggest frustration I had was the delivery of the build in the field. I had a building partner that worked in the field and I was so frustrated about the quality and the management of the things that went on in the construction area. To the point that I got quite disillusioned that they couldn’t produce the quality of product. “So while managing the company, I decided to take a couple of projects where I live FROM CREATIVE DESIGNS TO QUALITY BUILDS