Nightingale Ballarat in print

Nightingale Ballarat is featured in the latest issue of The Local Project - a print and digital publication showcasing a curated selection of work from both leading and emerging local architects and designers.

The article celebrates Nightingale’s first regional project, located in the Ballarat city centre and its response to the issues of urban sprawl and sustainability posed by growing populations in regional Victorian cities.

Journalist Aaron Grinter comments on how the design of the building is sympathetic to the city’s history but has the sustainability and design credentials to restore Central Ballarat’s ‘vibrancy and activity’ for the future.

‘The paradigm-shifting development model succeed[s] in any urban setting.’ It has ‘sustainability written into its DNA’ and contributes to reinvigorating the central hub. The building’s striking design ‘glimpses back in time while looking to the future’ helping to reconnect local residents with their community.

Image extract from The Local Project (Issue 11).

The latest issue of Green Magazine (Issue 90 - ‘Little But Plenty’) also features Nightingale Ballarat as one of 5 examples of multi-residential housing designed with community in mind and prioritising performance in terms of energy consumption and materials.

Nightingale Ballarat continues to be recognised for its sustainability, innovation and design choices, with the project recently being:

  • nominated as a finalist in the Urban Development Industry Association (UDIA) National Awards for 2023 (Sustainability category);

  • awarded Silver in the 2023 Better Future Australian Design Awards (Multi-residential category); and

  • awarded an LIV Hospitality Design Award for 2022 (Winner of the Architectural Design Apartment category).

Image extract from Green Magazine (Issue 90 - ‘Little But Plenty’).

Monica van Dyk