Completed: 2020
Architect: Turner
Number of Apartments – 99 apartments and 3 retail tenancies
Unique Features:
- Four apartments styled by Valiant Furniture and donated to residents in need.
- Received Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) 2020 NSW Architecture Awards Commendation for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
- Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) NSW 2020 Development Awards for Excellence Winner for Medium-Density Development Above 75 Dwellings category and Finalist for Affordable Development category
Media
- Valiant Interior Partnership
- UDIA NSW Awards for Excellence Magazine 2020
- Media releases
- Sod Turning Ceremony: https://www.facebook.com/cwh.citywesthousing/posts/2070247563264093
- Topping Out Ceremony: https://twitter.com/citywestsydney/status/1191532784658989056?s=20
- Hoarding: https://twitter.com/citywestsydney/status/1095898469791723520?s=20
- https://www.domain.com.au/news/glebes-35-million-development-drop-in-the-ocean-for-affordable-housing-shortage
The Blackwattle apartments are part of the Glebe Affordable Housing Project Cowper Street redevelopment that replaced 153 dilapidated social housing flats into 495 apartments with a mix of social, affordable and market apartments. NSW Land and Housing Corporation vested the land for the Affordable Housing component. The Blackwattle building is the dedicated Affordable Housing in perpetuity component of this urban renewal.
