5 Inner East Sydney Properties Under $1 Million
The tightly held locale boasts is coveted and convenient.
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While apartments and unit prices haven’t kept pace with the ascendance of housing prices, Sydney’s tony inner east, that flanks the CBD, remains prime position for its easy access to the amenities of the city and proximity to the eastern beaches. Here, we’ve collated five stylish pads to call your own under $1 million.
1/196 Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010
A short walk to the CBD and Victoria Street cafes, this 78sqm 2-bedroom, 1-bathroom and 1-car parking apartment boasts a private street entrance with a small courtyard and secure parking with storage space. The residence is fitted with polished timber floors and sees an L shaped living area complemented by a separate kitchen, fitted with Smeg gas appliances and a dishwasher.
$995,000; raywhitetaylorandpartners.com.au
205/65 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo, NSW 2011
Set within ‘The Anchorage’, in a world-class harbourside position opposite the famous Finger Wharf comes this generously proportioned 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom, 1-car parking apartment. Designed by award-winning architects, Eeles Trelease, it features a great open plan living/dining area complemented by parquetry flooring. With floor-to-ceiling glass leading onto a large covered balcony, it makes the perfect space for wining and dining courtesy of a sleek kitchen fitted with Miele appliances and stone benchtops.
$990,000; rwebay.com
5/46 Roslyn Gardens, Rushcutters Bay, NSW 2011
Offered here is a quintessential Art Deco character in generous scale within a boutique building ‘Lakemount’. The home is a dream inner-city pad with an oversized one-plus-study floorplan, leafy garden outlooks, ample built-in storage, renovated stone kitchen all within a walks distance to cafes, dining and public transport.
$900,000; bresicwhitney.com.au
805/23 Pelican Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010
Contemporary and vibrant, this tidy abode features 1-bedroom and 1-bathroom in the enviable ‘Pelican’ security building. Within, the residence features a king-sized bedroom with built-ins, full sized galley kitchen with dishwasher and gas cooking, open-plan living and dining area with sliding glass doors to covered balcony. Further, the home is nearby to the bustling Crown Street, central station, buses and more.
Auction; wwre.com
7/50 Bayswater Road, Rushcutters Bay NSW, 2011
Soaring ceilings paired with oversized rooms typify this apartment found in a refurbished 1890s landmark building with interiors by Daniel Boddam. Here, the home sees period details elevated by the recent refurbishment such as herringbone flooring. custom cabinetry and Carrara marble benchtops all within close proximity to eateries with the city by foot, bus or train.
Auction; raineandhorne.com.au
Consumers are going to gravitate toward applications powered by the buzzy new technology, analyst Michael Wolf predicts
Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’
A new AI-driven account by leading landscape architect Jon Hazelwood pushes the boundaries on the role of ‘complex nature’ in the future of our cities
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Drifts of ground cover plants and wildflowers along the steps of the Sydney Opera House, traffic obscured by meadow-like planting and kangaroos pausing on city streets.
This is the way our cities could be, as imagined by landscape architect Jon Hazelwood, principal at multi-disciplinary architectural firm Hassell. He has been exploring the possibilities of rewilding urban spaces using AI for his Instagram account, Naturopolis_ai with visually arresting outcomes.
“It took me a few weeks to get interesting results,” he said. “I really like the ephemeral nature of the images — you will never see it again and none of those plants are real.
“The AI engine makes an approximation of a grevillea.”
Hazelwood chose some of the most iconic locations in Australia, including the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge, as well as international cities such as Paris and London, to demonstrate the impact of untamed green spaces on streetscapes, plazas and public space.
He said he hopes to provoke a conversation about the artificial separation between our cities and the broader environment, exploring ways to break down the barriers and promote biodiversity.
“A lot of the planning (for public spaces) is very limited,” Hazelwood said. “There are 110,000 species of plants in Australia and we probably use about 12 in our (public) planting schemes.
“Often it’s for practical reasons because they’re tough and drought tolerant — but it’s not the whole story.”
Hazelwood pointed to the work of UK landscape architect Prof Nigel Dunnett, who has championed wild garden design in urban spaces. He has drawn interest in recent years for his work transforming the brutalist apartment block at the Barbican in London into a meadow-like environment with diverse plantings of grasses and perennials.
Hazelwood said it is this kind of ‘complex nature’ that is required for cities to thrive into the future, but it can be hard to convince planners and developers of the benefits.
“We have been doing a lot of work on how we get complex nature because complexity of species drives biodiversity,” he said.
“But when we try to propose the space the questions are: how are we going to maintain it? Where is the lawn?
“A lot of our work is demonstrating you can get those things and still provide a complex environment.”
At the moment, Hassell together with the University of Melbourne is trialling options at the Hills Showground Metro Station in Sydney, where the remaining ground level planting has been replaced with more than 100 different species of plants and flowers to encourage diversity without the need for regular maintenance. But more needs to be done, Hazelwood said.
“It needs bottom-up change,” he said. ““There is work being done at government level around nature positive cities, but equally there needs to be changes in the range of plants that nurseries grow, and in the way our city landscapes are maintained and managed.”
And there’s no AI option for that.
Consumers are going to gravitate toward applications powered by the buzzy new technology, analyst Michael Wolf predicts
Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’
