(COUNTRY) Gadigal
Hidden in the dense urban jungle of Sydney’s Surry Hills lies a scattering of tiny residential gems. So small that they are inconspicuous to passers-by, they have nevertheless drawn attention on a national and global scale. All within a few streets of each other are little treasures such as Durbach Block Jaggers’ Droga rooftop apartment (the 1998 Australian Institute of Architects’ Robin Boyd Award winner), Domenic Alvaro’s Small House (World Architecture Festival House of the Year 2011), and Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects’ Studios 54, a slender tower of maisonettes that won the Aaron Bolot Award for Multiple Housing in the 2015 New South Wales Architecture Awards. These three projects (and if you hunted for more, you would probably find some) all conjure a sense of spatial delight from minimal and neglected spaces, on the kind of sites often deemed too difficult to develop.
In 2022, another
