Droga Apartment by Durbach Block Jaggers

When originally published in Houses back in 1998 (see issue 16), the Droga Apartment was presented with the headline “Zinc Slink.” There have been many articles written about this iconic project by Durbach Block Jaggers (then Durbach Block Architects), and most reviews have drawn on a range of analogies to capture its poetic expression: a sunning lizard, a slug, twisting bodies, a sleek cat, something with an uplifted head and scales, even a ship slicing through surf.

The Droga Apartment was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture and the Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture in 1998 (which marked the first time the practice received these accolades). Since then, Durbach