With 203 homes across six buildings, Nightingale Village offers sustainable, community-centric living in Melbourne’s central business district.
The co-living complex was a collaboration between Architecture Architecture, Austin Maynard Architects, Breathe, Clare Cousins Architects, Hayball and Kennedy Nolan. Each responsible for one building, the firms worked together to maximize usable space for residents, reduce construction costs, and achieve environmentally sustainable outcomes. May’s FRAME Awards-winning project, Nightingale Village achieved an end-score of 7.57 in the category Co-Living Complex.
Cover and above: May's winning project Nightingale Village is a co-living complex in Melbourne's central business district.
Inspired by traditional wind towers, 38 cones intersected to produce a variety of open, semi-open and internal spaces at the Austrian pavilion at the 2020 world expo in Dubai.
What resonated with juror Katrina Yin, design manager at JDS Development Group, was that ‘The designers and developer all rose to the challenge of creating a great model for the next generation of socially responsible dwellings.’ Private living spaces are paired with welcoming common areas; every building has its own rooftop and developer Nightingale Housing successfully lobbied for the introduction of an adjacent public park. Circular water and energy interventions encourage circular behaviour. Mesura creative director and partner Benjamin Iborra Wicksteed calls the project ‘a good example of how to understand new ways of living by sharing spaces and making the most of private ones.’
Proctor & Shaw added south-facing glass volumes to help improve natural light and heat loss with Sky Lantern House in London.
Civic Architects ditched the traditional closed-off format of institutions for the Schoenenkwartier Shoe Museum in Waalwijk, the Netherlands, in favour of a more user-driven experience.
Shiseido Creative and Hakuten joined forces to design Living Strata, a window display at Shiseido’s flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo.
Querkraft Architekten’s pavilion for Austria at the 2020 world expo in Dubai earned the first honourable mention place. Natural finishes and modular construction drawing from traditional Arab building drove the design (7.51, Cultural Space), which can be reused completely. The third-place space takes us back to the residential sector – Proctor & Shaw’s Sky Lantern House in London (7.39, House) entailed a full refurbishment and extension. Collaboration and an embrace of innovative materials and complex construction made the reworking possible.
Next to be recognized by May’s jury was Schoenenkwartier Shoe Museum (7.29, Cultural Space), a new hub for shoe design, shoe production and shoe fashion. Located in Dutch city Waalwijk, the museum space sits within a listed building complex from the 1930s, renewed by Civic Architects and La-Di-Da. Retail is represented in our last honourable mention of the month, a window art display that appeared at Shiseido’s Parlour Ginza flagship store in Tokyo for the brand’s 150th anniversary. The company teamed up with Hakuten to create Living Strata (7.28, Window Display), an immersive showcase commenting on our impact on nature.
