Our Niddrie Quarry Housing - Canopi Valley Lake - has been Awarded as a Finalist in the 2025 Victorian Premier's Design Awards in the Architectural Design Category!

Canopi is 104 affordable – energy efficient, timber - townhouses in the former Niddrie Quarry. it demonstrates the repair and transformation of a well-located but highly damaged brownfield site into medium density housing.

In 1999 community activism saved the site from becoming a toxic dump. Now home to wetland sanctuaries, a lake, 100s of new trees and houses that tap into existing established infrastructure, like schools, hospitals, transport and shops.

Tarakan Street features in INDESIGNLIVE  

'At last people are talking with urgency about the need for social and affordable housing' says Jan Henderson for Indesignlive.

'Tarakan Street is making a difference to the lives of many through innovative and thoughtful architecture. NH Architecture and Bird de la Coeur Architects worked closely together to achieve something that should be replicated in every suburb and state in Australia. This is just the beginning and long may it continue.'

Read the article by Jan henderson here Indesignlive

Construction begins on 54 social housing apartments in 3 new buildings as part of the Victorian Government's Big Housing Build. MP Christine Couzens and the team from Homes Vic with NH Architecture and Alchemy Construction attended the sod turning ceremony. We've worked with NH to design longevity into the one-, two- and three-bedroom dwellings by designing flexibility into the apartment configurations, catering for expanding and contracting families. Bedrooms can be allocated to those who need them, allowing people to start a family and increase the size of their apartment or conversely contract apartment size and age in place.