Smaller-scaled apartments in the inner suburbs have a bit of a bad reputation in Brisbane. Perhaps this is a legacy of the boxy brick six packs that stripped many inner-suburban streets of their traditional timber-and-tin houses in the 1960s and 1970s. It might also be the fault of awkward, faux-heritage 1990s infill developments, which split quarter-acre blocks to insert bulky new houses with the thinnest possible veneer of “heritage” in between Queenslanders.
This is a pity, because a combination of inner suburban revitalization, decreasing household sizes, dissatisfaction with long commutes and the realization that not every home needs a big backyard has created
