The Parade

Of the three stepped building forms - designed to provide a transition from taller buildings at West Ryde Station to more suburban residential forms to the north - is a six-storey building (Block A) containing 30 apartments for social housing and two blocks of nine and eleven storeys respectively (Blocks B and C), containing a total of 120 private apartments.

The facades are composed to incorporate both rectilinear and curvilinear forms. When viewed from the street, the apartment blocks are defined by an articulated six storey base of locally manufactured bricks. This urban design strategy provides a visual anchor to the street.

To the railway corridor, the project is composed dramatically and is more landmark in urban character. Here the facades are split vertically to incorporate both rectilinear brick elements and taller curved corners where the floor slabs are over clad and projected to reference the adjacent railway tracks.