With the Anstey Train Station directly bounding the west, the new park on West Street two blocks to the south and Sydney Road to the east, Nightingale Anstey is ideally positioned to support a life lived in social, environmental and financial sustainability.
This 8 storey multi-residential building is broken up into 2 communities; a Laneway community housing 31 apartments and a Station community housing 23, with apartment types ranging from 3 bedrooms to Teilhaus apartments. The two communities have separate secure entries via a lush vegetated forecourt off the western colonnade. Each have a dedicated rooftop spaces with laundry facilities and productive gardens, and share communal bike storage and waste rooms.
The ground floor level, with its public covered colonnade to the west adjacent the Upfield bike path, and a laneway to the south, hosts a number of retail and commercial spaces with enhanced street activation to the North, South and West of the site. A simple palette of robust materials punctuated with crevices of mature trees and greenery, results in a building which is reflective of its context and surrounds, yet recessive in its form giving way to long term public green amenity.
Team:
Architects: Breathe Architecture
Other Participants: Markscon, Openwork, Fiona Turnbull
Photographer: Derek Swalwell
