‘Beautiful to look at and wonderful to live in’: new pattern designs could be next art deco or red brick classics
Competition-winning apartment building plans should be approved twice as quickly by NSW councils, and will be three to six storeys highFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAiry Scandinavian interiors, shaded balconies,...
<p>Competition-winning apartment building plans should be approved twice as quickly by NSW councils, and will be three to six storeys high</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/nov/24/australia-politics-live-sussan-ley-andrew-hastie-liberal-leadership-libspill-labor-environment-nature-law-senate-greens-coalition-climate-crisis-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Airy Scandinavian interiors, shaded balconies, light-filled courtyards – could these be Sydney’s next <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/11/art-deco-density-what-we-learned-from-australias-first-apartment-boom">art deco apartment blocks</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/18/hey-architects-hands-off-my-dog-box-apartment-it-may-be-small-and-dark-but-it-beats-the-alternative">red brick walk-ups</a>?</p><p>The New South Wales government has <a href="https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/government-architect-nsw/housing-design/nsw-housing-pattern-book/pattern-designs">launched nine new architect-designed</a> mid-rise apartment building pattern book designs, which it hopes will support the delivery of 112,000 homes in the “missing middle” over the next five years, through its controversial <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/23/sydney-development-plans-increase-nsw-housing-density-opposition">low and mid-rise (Lmr) reforms</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/24/australia-housing-nsw-council-new-architecture-pattern-books-art-deco-red-brick-classics">Continue reading...</a>
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