Another 30 apartments up for grabs in Nightingale Village
A new tranche of 30 apartments went up for grabs at Nightingale Village, with buyers invited to ballot for their preferred apartment by Thursday 14 March.
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Given that the first building offered in the village, Skye
House by Breathe Architecture, received 150 ballots for the...
First ballot for Nightingale Village apartments oversubscribed by 435%. New ballot opens
Nightingale Village, the ambitious development being undertaken by seven architecture practices in Brunswick, Melbourne, has won overwhelming support from Melbourne home buyers in its first test of the market.
The village involves seven buildings in a single precinct
each designed by a difference architecture practice. Breathe Architecture is
the lead architecture practice and offered the...
Baugruppen: A new housing affordability model
The housing affordability crisis in Australia is a product of the cause and effect of numerous factors including the way we fund and build apartments on multi-residential developments.
But emerging financial models may help ease the pain.
Source: Peter Clarke
The word baugruppen means ‘building group’ in German. It is also the name of a new funding model promising savings of up to 30 per cent on the cost of...
It’s time for architects to insist projects meet their personal values, says renowned architect, Alison Brooks
Historically, architects have been reluctant to declare their politics, world-renowned architect Alison Brooks said in Melbourne last month.
Brooks, who won the 2008 Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture, said, “I felt it was really important, at this moment in my practice, to declare the importance of a value system for architects working today.”
Brooks made the comment while presenting...
Big promises, tiny homes
The ‘tiny house’ movement in Australia is growing, fuelled by Instagram feeds of beautifully crafted little dwellings in serene settings and, more recently, a display of tiny homes in the carpark at Bunnings, Port Melbourne.
Tiny houses are touted as a solution to homelessness, housing affordability, environmental sustainability and a haven for those craving a simpler, minimal lifestyle.
These are big promises.
Tiny houses...
Will families ever buy apartments by choice?
November 2014
Building apartments for families is not for the faint-hearted, but Melbourne developers, Marcus Lyon and Paul Bell, are taking on the challenge.
The project on Brunswick Group’s drawing board, inching its way through the approvals process, is a complex of 74 apartments, 12 of which have three-bedrooms, private outside spaces front and back, and are positioned on the quiet side...
