A rare opportunity presented a vacant 1800 sqm, triangular site in the middle of a heritage conservation area in Sydney. The brief developed for a terrace of six new townhouses and an art gallery and café at the pointy end of the triangle. The two long sides of the triangle fronted two roads of very different character; one a semi commercial higher traffic throughway, and the other a quiet tree lined gentrified residential street. Each of the houses, the gallery and cafe, addressed both these street frontages

On the quiet street frontage, the site adjoins a long row of Victorian terrace houses, requiring absolute respect in terms of scale, form and materiality. On the busier rear frontage, the design had to provide protection from traffic, a pub, and an 8-storey brutalist apartment block.