Nightingale Ngarrga Terragulk is the newest addition to Nightingale Housing’s developments. CityLab developed and delivered the EOI process for Nightingale Housing, who were seeking a multidisciplinary design team to deliver four multi-residential buildings, and one mixed-use building, comprising both dwellings and commercial uses.

A critical factor in the success of the project was to achieve a single integrated housing development that is expressed through a diversity of design expressions and architectural hands.

The winning teams Neeson Murcutt and Neille, Kennedy Nolan, Wowowa, Hayball, and Lian have each designed separate eight-story buildings for the new building complex proposed for 17–19 Hope Street in Brunswick.

The precinct has been given a Woi Wurrung name meaning ‘dancing branches’ and includes generous private and public greenery. A new community park will run between the buildings and the train line. Residents will have access to a shared backyard space at the rear of the development, and a landscaped internal courtyard runs through the core of four adjoining buildings.