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The Marlborough House proposal, lodged for the <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/marlborough-house-47-97-marlborough-street-surry-hills-nsw-2010">47-97 Marlborough Street</a> site, would see the adaptive reuse of the heritage-listed warehouse building alongside the construction of new residential additions and a separate apartment building on the northern portion of the site.

The proposal seeks approval for 172 apartments across three buildings, including 15 per cent affordable housing managed by a community housing provider for at least 15 years from occupation.

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Interior view from the Northern Building Penthouse overlooking the park

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The redevelopment is planned for the prominent 3,413 sqm site bounded by Marlborough Street, Goodlet Street and Lansdowne Street, directly opposite Eddie Ward Park and around 200 metres from the Surry Hills light rail stop.

Time &amp; Place acquired the former David Jones building in 2024, marking the first time the property had changed hands in around 50 years.

Designed by Wardle, the proposal centres around the adaptive reuse of the former David Jones factory, originally constructed between 1913 and 1935 in the Inter-War Chicagoesque architectural style.

Wardle noted in its Architectural Design Report that the building “occupies a significant place in the industrial and cultural history of Surry Hills” and at its peak was “the largest department store manufacturing facility in Australia, employing over 800 people and fuelling the growth of Sydney’s fashion and retail industries.”

The practice said the project positions itself “not as an isolated intervention, but as a contributor to the civic, social, and architectural grain of the precinct.”

The proposal would deliver 75 apartments within the retained southern heritage building, 59 apartments within the central addition, and a further 38 apartments within the new northern building fronting Lansdowne Street.

Planning documents show the scheme would comprise a mix of heritage apartments, new-build apartments, townhouses and penthouses.

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The development would also include a ground-floor retail tenancy on the corner of Marlborough and Lansdowne streets, rooftop communal open space, a landscaped pedestrian link along the western edge of the site, and basement parking accessed from Lansdowne Street via a car stacker system.

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The scheme emerged from a competitive design process run by Urbis, with Wardle ultimately selected as the winning architect ahead of FJC Studio, TZG, Architectus and Wilkinson Eyre.

The Design Integrity Panel later described several aspects of the Wardle scheme as fundamental to the project, including “the stepped character of the new addition to the north of the site”, the landscaped western pedestrian link, and the “garden arrival” experience separating the original Marlborough House from the heritage addition.

Wardle’s design heavily references the site’s industrial and heritage history, while also responding to the surrounding Surry Hills streetscape.

The Architectural Design Report describes Surry Hills as “a finely grained neighbourhood with beautiful and expressive brickworks throughout the suburb,” with the proposal introducing a material palette intended to sit comfortably alongside the existing warehouse fabric and neighbouring terraces.

The report also outlines the project’s relationship with Eddie Ward Park and the broader landscape context of the area.

“Marlborough House occupies a site of deep cultural memory and the neighbouring Eddie Ward Park is of local ecological significance, where natural systems, topography, and stories have long shaped human experience,” Wardle noted in the report.

The architects said the proposal sought to “rebind built form to Country” through landscape, materiality and the adaptive reuse of the heritage structure.

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The project is also being progressed under the NSW Government’s in-fill affordable housing provisions, allowing developments that include affordable housing to access additional height and floor space incentives.

Under the plans, 2,593 sqm of the project’s floor space would be dedicated to affordable housing, slightly exceeding the required 15 per cent threshold.

In its Design Excellence Strategy, Urbis said the project aimed to “sensitively adapt and enhance the heritage-listed building on site through alterations and additions that preserve its historical significance” while delivering “high-quality market and infill affordable housing development in Surry Hills.”

Time &amp; Place has been one of the most active developers nationally in the last 12 to 24 months. Late last year they completed&nbsp;The Queensbridge in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developments/southbank-vic-3006">Southbank</a>, a mixed-use tower with 353 apartments and a hotel. They are currently selling Park Modern, 246 apartments near the famous Botanic Gardens in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developments/south-melbourne-vic-3205">South Melbourne</a>, and have future projects, <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/the-wilmot-173-burke-road-28-hope-street-glen-iris-vic-3146">The Wilmot</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/glen-iris-vic-3146">Glen Iris</a>, the redevelopment of the Northcote Plaza, and another tower in South Melbourne.

The developer broke into Sydney just a few years ago with Two Tides in Manly. They have another project nearby, which is at the ultra-luxury end of the market on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/buildings/shoreline-manly-beach-89-90-north-steyne-manly">North Steyne</a>, fronting the beach.

It is also continuing to work through the <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/news/nsw/first-look-time-place-settles-on-design-for-the-chimes-potts-point-redevelopment">redevelopment of The Chimes building</a> on Macleay Street in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developments/potts-point-nsw-2011">Potts Point</a>, as well as a project on <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/news/nsw/time-place-to-take-on-mosman-apartment-market">Mosman's Redan Street</a>.
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Joel Robinson

First look: Time & Place unveils Marlborough House redevelopment designs for former David Jones warehouse in Surry Hills

The residential transformation of St Kilda Road is set to continue into with more new apartment plans for the sought-after boulevard.

Wing Tai Asia has lodged plans for a major residential tower at 464-466 St Kilda Road, replacing the former VACC House with an 18-storey mixed-use development designed around a retained heritage podium and a sculpted contemporary tower.

The proposal, prepared under Victoria’s Significant Residential Development with Affordable Housing pathway, would deliver 325 apartments and ground-floor retail across the prominent 4,653 sqm boulevard site in Melbourne’s St Kilda Road North Precinct.

The project centres on the adaptive reuse of the site’s heritage-listed VACC Building, an eight-storey office designed by Bernard Evans that has occupied the address for decades. Planning documents state the development would involve “carefully dismantling and conserving off-site the original metal fabric of the podium visible from St Kilda Road,” before reinstating it as the defining frontage of the new scheme.

Above the restored podium, Wing Tai is proposing a curvilinear residential tower. The scheme includes 172 one-bedroom apartments, 63 two-bedroom apartments, 66 three-bedroom apartments, and 24 four-bedroom apartments, alongside two ground-floor food and beverage tenancies fronting St Kilda Road.

The tower has been designed with substantial articulation and variable setbacks to minimise perceived bulk and maintain view corridors along the boulevard. Urbis, which prepared the planning report, said the design “has been significantly articulated through a curvilinear design” with “an interplay with materials, façade expression and depth” to create visual separation and visual interest.

The proposal also includes 254 basement car spaces, landscaped pedestrian links connecting St Kilda Road and Queens Lane, and a biophilic landscape strategy featuring canopy trees, raised planters, cascading greenery and a glass oculus pool overlooking the eastern frontage.

Planning documents confirm the $270.1 million development will contribute 3 per cent of project costs to the Social Housing Growth Fund as part of the application process.

Wing Tai acquired the St Kilda Road property in 2018 alongside Abacus Property Group for $95.38 million, before later consolidating ownership of the site. The property previously served as the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce headquarters for around 60 years.

The transformation of the St Kilda Rd boulevard is already beginning to materialise, with a number of high-profile projects recently completed, launched, or approaching launch as developers continue to back the long-term appeal of the precinct.

Among the most notable recent completions is Louise by Samuel Property Group, just off the strip on Queens Lane, the same pocket Hirsch &amp; Faigen recently launched The Queensbury. Mirvac is too on the same street with The Albertine, which is approaching completion.

Dexus recently secured approval for its slice of St Kilda Road, while Gurner also has approved plans for the precinct.

Wing Tai unveils 325-apartment St Kilda Road tower on former VACC House site

Malaysian developer <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developers/s-p-setia">SP Setia</a> is the latest to jump into St Leonards booming Transport Oriented Development precinct.

The developer, which has previously delivered Sapphire by the Gardens apartment development in Melbourne, identified the Atchison Street site in 2023. It filed a Scoping Report around 12 months ago, and now has revealed the designs for the new&nbsp;40-storey mixed-use tower.

The State Significant Development Application covers <a href="https://next-portal.urban.com.au/projects/14650/summary">20-22 Atchison Street</a>, a 1,374 sqm site positioned between St Leonards Station and the new Crows Nest Metro station.

Designed by <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/architects/cox-architecture">COX Architecture</a>, the project would deliver 181 apartments, above a four-storey commercial podium, five basement levels, and new public domain works along Mitchell Street. The apartment mix comprises 35 one-bedroom apartments, 39 one-bedroom-plus-study apartments, 85 two-bedroom apartments, and 22 three-bedroom residences.

The proposal has been lodged as a shop-top housing development under the NSW Government’s TOD planning pathway, which allows increased density around key transport infrastructure. The site sits within the recently rezoned Crows Nest Accelerated TOD Precinct.

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SP Setia acquired the Atchison Street site as part of its continued expansion into the Australian apartment market. In comments made to City &amp; Country (The Edge Malaysia) in 2023, SP Setia President and CEO Datuk Choong Kai Wai described the acquisition as “a strategic move” aligned with the group’s post-pandemic market recovery strategy.

“Our target for this exceptional development is local and overseas buyers, including first-home buyers, downsizers and investors,” Choong said.

The tower has been designed as a slender vertical form rising from a mixed-use podium, with COX Architecture positioning the development as a response to the evolving St Leonards and Crows Nest skyline.

“The purpose of the project is to facilitate the delivery of high-quality housing at a strategically located site and deliver a built tower outcome that is consistent with the desired future character of St Leonards and aligns with the TOD controls,” the design report stated.

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The podium would incorporate retail uses fronting Atchison Street, commercial tenancies, landscaped communal areas, and pedestrian improvements along Mitchell Street. Vehicle access and loading would be consolidated via Atchison Lane.

Residents would have access to more than 665 sqm of communal indoor and outdoor spaces, while the development proposes 96 parking spaces across five basement levels.

The proposal also includes a commitment for 10 per cent of residential floor space to be allocated toward affordable housing through a monetary contribution.

COX said the tower form responds directly to the emerging high-density character of the precinct while seeking to maximise solar access, cross ventilation, and outlook from apartments.

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“The building is orientated towards north,” the Apartment Design Guide compliance report noted, adding that the tower’s slim form was driven by the constrained inner-urban site dimensions.

The design also incorporates landscaped setbacks and communal open space at podium level, intended to soften the interface with surrounding streets and improve pedestrian amenity.

The project adds to a growing wave of redevelopment proposals reshaping St Leonards and Crows Nest following the opening of the Sydney Metro City line and the NSW Government’s push for higher-density housing around major transport nodes.

Last week Stockland filed plans just down the road. They want to build a <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/601-pacific-highway-st-leonards-nsw-2065">52-storey tower on Pacific Highway</a>.

Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/news/nsw/first-look-stockland-plans-52-storey-538-apartment-st-leonards-tower">First look: Stockland plans 52-storey, 538-apartment St Leonards tower&nbsp;</a>

First look: SP Setia targets St Leonards skyline with 40-storey TOD tower

<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developers/urban-property-group">Urban Property Group</a> has revealed plans for a new mixed-use tower at 10 Dangar Street, Wickham, advancing a proposal that would reshape the southern gateway to Newcastle’s city centre with one of the city’s tallest residential buildings.

The State Significant Development proposal, now on exhibition, seeks approval for a <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/bowline-10-dangar-street-wickham-nsw-2293">43-storey tower</a> immediately adjacent to the Newcastle Interchange. The project would deliver around 200 apartments, including 42 affordable housing dwellings, alongside 99 co-living units, a 171-room hotel, retail space, and new public domain integrated through the site.

The scheme marks a significant escalation of plans previously approved for the site. Urban Property Group took over the prominent 2,904 sqm parcel, where excavation and demolition had already commenced under an earlier consent for a 14-storey mixed-use development.

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Designed by <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/architects/sjb-architects">SJB</a>, the tower has been conceived as a landmark transit-oriented development anchored to the Newcastle Interchange precinct. The proposal includes 245 build-to-sell apartments across a mix of one, two, and three-bedroom residences, as well as two penthouses. Fifteen apartments and one operational unit are earmarked for NDIS housing. The co-living component would add a further 99 units, while the podium would accommodate retail uses and hotel facilities.

SJB said the site presents “a valuable opportunity to anchor the precinct by setting the standard for design, active ground planes and character at the key southern gateway.”

The architecture responds directly to the site’s position beside major transport infrastructure and within one of Newcastle’s fastest-evolving urban renewal precincts. The tower form sits above a sculpted podium designed to frame new public spaces, including a through-site pedestrian link connecting Station Street to Hannell Street, landscaped plazas, and activated retail edges.

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The design report describes the project as part of the broader transition of Wickham into “a vibrant, high-quality mixed-use urban precinct” that leverages proximity to the station, open space, and regional connectivity.

A detailed public art strategy has also been prepared for the development. The strategy positions the project as “a transit-oriented development of state significance at the gateway to Newcastle’s city centre” and outlines a series of integrated artworks responding to Newcastle’s industrial and transport heritage.

Creative Road’s curatorial framework for the project, titled Unveil, draws on “stratified surfaces, carved volumes, and light-filled apertures” while referencing Newcastle’s transformation from an industrial city into a contemporary education and technology hub.

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The proposal is being advanced through the NSW Housing Delivery Authority pathway after being declared State Significant Development in June 2025. The accompanying scoping report states the development aims to “maximise the site’s proximity to the Newcastle Interchange by delivering transit-oriented development” while increasing housing supply and affordable housing provision within the Newcastle LGA.

Urban Property Group’s plans align with the long-term strategic vision established under the Wickham Master Plan, which identified the interchange precinct as suitable for substantial uplift in height and density. The current proposal would significantly intensify that vision, positioning the tower among the tallest developments proposed for Newcastle.

The site sits immediately north of the Newcastle Interchange, bounded by Dangar Street, Hannell Street, and Charles Street. It is surrounded by a rapidly growing cluster of residential towers and mixed-use projects that have emerged following the completion of the light rail and transport interchange.

First look: Urban Property Group unveils Newcastle’s latest tower at Wickham interchange

Bottega House has completed settlement of a landmark riverfront site in Macquarie Street, St Lucia, representing its first major Brisbane development.&nbsp;

Positioned on the banks of the Brisbane River, the <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/180-macquarie-street-st-lucia-qld-4067">premium site at 180 Macquarie Street</a> features uninterrupted river frontage in one of Brisbane’s most tightly held residential precincts.&nbsp;

The proposed development, currently under assessment with Brisbane City Council, has been designed by <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/architects/plus-studio">Plus Studio</a> with interiors by <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/interior-designers/mim-design">Mim Design</a> and will deliver a boutique collection of premium residences positioned specifically for owner occupiers and downsizers.&nbsp;

The residences are set to redefine luxury apartment living in the area, with a focus on architectural quality, refined finishes, landscape integration and elevated amenities including curated wellness facilities, resort-style pools and recreation spaces rarely seen in the local market.&nbsp;

Exclusive sales for the project will be led by Keenan &amp; Byrne, ahead of an anticipated launch later this year.&nbsp;

Bottega House Managing Director Nick Malloch said the project reflects the group’s ambition to deliver a highly curated residential offering within one of Brisbane’s most tightly held precincts.&nbsp;

“This is an incredibly rare riverfront opportunity and one we have approached with a long-term perspective,” Malloch said.&nbsp;

“Our vision from the outset was to create a boutique collection of residences that feel more like private homes than traditional apartments, with generous proportions, refined finishes and exceptional amenity throughout."

Malloch says there is a&nbsp;lack of premium owner-occupier stock of this quality in the market, particularly for downsizers wanting space, privacy and a true lifestyle offering without compromise.&nbsp;

"Demand is expected to be strong given the scarcity of premium riverfront opportunities of this nature within Brisbane’s inner-west."&nbsp;

Bottega House secures landmark riverfront site in St Lucia 

Trophy Sale

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The Paddington Courtyard House that architect Amelia Holliday designed has been sold post-auction.
Holliday of Aileen Sage Architects and husband David Lakes of Lochbuild paid $1.6 million for the dilapidated Comber Street home in 2010 and went about creating the new residence.
Built with a clever use of space, the home on 240 square metres is being marketed as having a cutting-edge design and sleek urban aesthetic.
It has four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a formal and informal living areas that open to a north facing garden.
The Agency's Ben Collier passed in on a vendor bid of $4.95 million.
It sold later for around $5.05 million.
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Courtyard House, Paddington sold post-auction

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Brighton’s Blair Athol has been sold.
<a href="http://www.jpdixon.com.au/5-leslie-grove-brighton" target="_blank">Set on about 3400 square metres</a>, with pool, tennis court and bay views, it’s a property steeped in history.
No price has been revealed yet on the latest deal secured by the Beamish car dealership family, who paid $7.52 million in 2013, but the vendors of the Gothic-style mansion had prices hopes of $13 million.
Its previous owners include Craig Kimberley of Just Jeans fame who sold it to Tabcorp CEO Ross Wilson in 1994 for $2.95 million, soon after relocating to Melbourne from Adelaide.
Its modern kitchen, with Aga stove, was designed by Sue Carr. Blair Athol once featured in Architectural Digest.
This article first appeared in The Weekend Australian. 
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Brighton trophy home Blair Athol sold

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A Ryde home that was the once the suburb’s ambulance station has sold pre-auction for $1.55 million.
The home was sold by Susanne Grindal, owner of Art of Baking in Gladesville, and her husband Daniel.
They had paid $755,000 in 2010.
It was the ambulance service premises from 1931 to 2004 after which the property was converted to residential.
The building cost £2500, with £1000 contributed by district residents.
The original building status is still etched onto the facade, reading Central District Ambulance above the garage.
Set on 580 square metres, the home has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and an original wood-burning fireplace in the living area after its conversion by Tas-Built.
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Phillip and Chris Allison at Belle Property Hunters Hill sold the home for the Brisbane-bound couple.
It sold pre-auction to downsizers from Ryde after eight contracts were issued for the Blaxland Road offering. 
The initial price guidance was $1,250,000 to $1,375,000.
Susanne’s special cake creations have featured in magazines including Bride To Be.
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.
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Former Ryde ambulance station residential conversion sells pre-auction

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A striking home in Perth's Wembley has been sold for $2.27 million.
The <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-wa-wembley-126245818" target="_blank">four bedroom, four bathroom property</a> designed by architects Klopper &amp; Davis with dramatic angled roofline exudes 1970s style with a contemporary twist.
Estate agent Craig Gaspar, from Caporn Young Estate Agents Claremont secured the sale of 24 St Vincents Avenue.
The median house price for the Perth suburb is $1.02 million.
There are ultra-modern fixtures that contrast with vintage light fittings.
With full-length timber-framed glass doors to make the most of natural light, it was designed it to look like a renovation using texture, materials, face bricks, timber platting and press tin.
The St Vincent’s Avenue home began with the design being approved in 2012 and the project was completed in late 2015 on its 390 square metre block.
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Wembley, Perth trophy home sold for $2.27 million

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The Haverbrack Avenue, Malvern, listed with demolition approval, sold post-auction mid-week through Andrew Hayne at Marshall White after it was passed in at $9.7 million.
There were three bidders.
The price guidance for the sun drenched <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-vic-malvern-125714366" target="_blank">five bedroom family home</a> on 1485sqm was given as $9.1 million to $10 million.
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The 1924 home was designed by the young architect Fred Ballantyne, the first articled pupil in the Melbourne office of the international acclaimed couple, Walter and Marion Griffin.
Fred had visited some of Frank Lloyd Wright's houses before he designed the U-shaped residence in the Prairie School style.
Ballantyne, who died in 1988, appears in the Dictionary of Unsong Architects.
Timber floors flow through the wide entrance hall to a spacious study, formal dining room and beautiful sitting room boasting vaulted ceilings and an open fireplace. It enjoys wonderful private garden outlooks with a northern aspect. 
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It last sold in 1992 at $800,000.
There are just the 25 homes in the street which crashed through the $1 million barrier in 1988.
There are six homes that haven't come to market since the 1980s or longer.
The tightly held house next-door at 11 Haverbrack holds the avenue's record price on selling last year at $11.2 million. It was designed by SJB Architects on its 1514sqm parcel. 
Its seven sale prices in the past four years have ranged from $4.395 million to $11.2 million, averaging $7.75 million.
The most recent sale was a reputed $9 million plus sale price to Ego and Natalie Seeman of the minimalist Haverbrack offering sold by former St Kilda Football Club vice-presiden David Strange and his wife, Tracy, who runs a destination banner and bus scroll business, Trambanners.
They'd commissioned architect David Watson and AGUSHI Builders to construct the home within gardens by Jack Merlo.They owned the original period house for a decade until subdividing it, building this one eight years ago as the family home and selling the vacant half which is an Alan Powell designed home within Paul Bangay gardens that is currently for sale by the Holckner family with $8.5 million to $9.25 million price guidance.
The originating Haverbrack was an 1854 homestead on 20 acres built for Colin Campbell, pastoralist, politician, author, educationist and cleric. Just 20 years after Melbourne was founded, Campbell erected a small pre-fabricated house which he had imported from England, the first Malvern dwelling to be erected on the east side of Glenferrie Road.
The house featured solid iron doors which the Tabletalk magazine wrote was for "added protection from warlike natives." He sent his boys to Melbourne Grammar. 
This article first appeared in The Weekend Australian.
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Haverbrack Avenue, Malvern trophy home sold post-auction

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A stylishly renovated 1870 Victorian home in Prahran was sold ahead of its auction scheduled for last weekend at $3.25 million.
Jellis Craig agent Andrew McCann said the sellers accepted a strong offer almost two weeks ahead of the weekend.
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The vendors has bought the three-bedroom house in a derelict state eight years ago.
The renovation was undertaken in collaboration with March Studio and MCO-llection who transformed the double brick 1870 Victorian home in its cul-de-sac location.
The property at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-vic-prahran-126512698" target="_blank">1 Trinian Street</a> had a price guide of $2.5 million to $2.7 million.
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Renovated 1870 Prahran trophy home sells pre-auction

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A John Chappel-designed five bedroom home at Springfield was Adelaide's priciest weekend sale at $1.43 million.
There have been <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-sa-springfield-126465846" target="_blank">$1,500,000 to $1,650,000 Toop &amp; Toop price guidance</a> for the house which sits on a 1,197 suuare metre block at 6 Coreega Avenue.
John Chappel, who was born in Unley Park, in 1923 and died in 2013.
Chappel first became interested in architecture through his contact with Victorian architect Jack Hobbs McConnell, who boarded with the Chappel family after he moved to Adelaide to work with Philip Claridge and Associates.
For about 12 months in the mid-1950s, Chappel was the group architect for the War Service Homes Division.
He oversaw the development of some 400 houses at North Glenelg, Woodville and Brighton.
From the 1950s to the late 1960s he was a member of the board for the Small Homes Service of South Australia.
Chappel become an architectural correspondent with the Advertiser in 1956, a role extended over three decades until 1990.
He received many commissions, mainly in the residential field, including from a number of prominent South Australian families, including the Bonythons and Kidmans.
Chappel was a member of the National Trust of Australia (SA Branch) and while being an advocate for heritage listing, he also argued for financial assistance for owners of heritage listed buildings
It has been reported Chappel claimed that ‘the modern movement in architecture arising from Bauhaus is surely the most significant happening in architecture since the days of the Greeks and Romans’. He became a close friend of Sydney architect, Harry Siedler.
Chappel was greatly influenced by the Melbourne School led by Robin Boyd in the post-war years. Through him, Chappel met other Victorians including Peter McIntyre, with whom he would stay, Roy Grounds, Geoff Mewton, Neil Clerehan, Kevin Boreland.
In the late 1950s, Chappel went to Melbourne to study the latest trends in the design of blocks of flats. Upon returning to Adelaide he designed and developed ‘own your own’ apartments in Broughton Street, Lockleys. This concept was based on co-ownership, a first in South Australia, and a forerunner to strata titles.
He went onto design a block of 76 flats for Peter Hearne of Orlit Constructions, at 100 South Terrace, Adelaide, the largest of its type in the state at that time. In 1969 he accepted a commission from Highrise Pty Ltd to design a multi-storey block of flats which became a prototype for many others.
Chappel held that ‘architecture [was] his religion’ and that ‘it [was] a privilege to be an architect’, with the basic principles of good design being ‘function, truth and architectural integrity.'
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John Chappel-designed Springfield home sold

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Badgers Wood, set in Edna Walling’s housing subdivision in Mooroolbark, has been listed for sale.
The garden designer had design on a Devon village in her 1920s project called the Bickleigh Vail Village.
Fletchers Mooroolbark agent Lisa Sorrell has it listed on behalf of Michael O’Loughlin and Anna Beesley who have occupied the home for six years.
It is being sold in an expressions of interest campaign that closes on 4 November.
<a href="https://www.17bickleighvaleroadmooroolbark.com" target="_blank">The cottage home</a> sits on 3144 square metres of garden.
Stone open fireplaces, lofty gables and exposed beams decorate the formal sitting room and inviting living room, with French doors leading straight out to the garden.
A contemporary country-style kitchen with European appliances and large walk in pantry, sits alongside the dining room where you can enjoy the garden expanse at eye level. It has four bedrooms and a study, the main boasting an ensuite and private balcony.
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Badgers Wood in Edna Walling's Mooroolbark village listed for sale

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In Canberra, 74.5% of the 47 reported weekend auction results were sold, lower than last year when there was a 82.8%. 
Canberra prices ranged between $243,000 at Watson and $1.7 million at Red Hill.
The two bedroom 58 square metre 1970s unit at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-unit-act-watson-126418694" target="_blank">5/156 Knox Street</a> last sold at $88,000 in August 1994.
The <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-act-red+hill-126473366" target="_blank">25 Fortitude Street, Red Hill</a> offering was a four bedroom two level home designed in 2003 by Collins Caddaye Architects which sold through Peter Blackshaw agent Mario Sanfranceso.
It last sold at $1.2 million in 2011.
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Collins Caddaye-designed Red Hill trophy home Canberra's top weekend sale

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The historic hillside Brisbane home, Cremorne at Hamilton has been sold by Fone Zone co-founder David McMahon and wife Tracey, following their move to Aspen, Colorado.
The <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-hamilton-123306210" target="_blank">Mullens Street home</a> on its 2400 square metre block fetched $5,975,000 when auctioned through Sarah Hackett at Place Estate Agents.
The couple, who paid $6,625,000 in 2015, were only the third owners.
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Cremorne, built by a publican, James O'Connor in 1905, sold to the Gunn cattle farming family descendants, Galen and Lynda Gunn..
Galen Gunn is the director of Hawcs, an aerial surveying company that servicespowerlines and utility providers. Their Brisbane move was prompted by schooling opportunities for their two sons.
Designed by architects Eaton and Bates, it comes with a new pavilion extension by BVN Donovan Hill, crafted from imported French zinc and featuring floor to ceilings glass, that received the 2009 Queensland division Australian Institute of Architects Award for residential architecture.
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