McEvoy Street Housing

163-173 McEvoy Street comprises a multi-residential development of 164 apartments with ground floor retail component. The commission was received via a City of Sydney Design Excellence Competition against multiple leading Sydney multi-residential practices.

The project is located at the interface of the industrial context of Alexandria to the south and the fine grain residential context of Erskineville to the north. The proposal mediates between these two scales and characters, calibrating the architectural response to each. A group of three robust masonry forms are presented to the primary McEvoy Street frontage, reinterpreting the heritage masonry forms of the context. The masonry base is capped by a row of metallic volumes with sawtooth roof expression. Flush shopfront glazing to the ground floor contrasts with recessed glazing to the upper levels. Traditional steel palisade fencing is reinterpreted in steel plate balustrades, providing contrast to the robust masonry.

2019 – Present