The Horizon Lee 5 Multi-Residential project provides a model for the envisaged redevelopment along the Newcastle waterfront.

As the successful proponent of a competitive tender, the design was developed in partnership with Hill Thalis Urban Design and Architecture and with extensive consultation with the NSW Government Architect’s appointed State Design Review Panel to ensure ‘Design Excellence’.

• Location: New Lambton
• Size: 12970m2
• Completion: TBC

Robust and well-mannered material palette and placement hint to an industrial elegance of Newcastle’s maritime history.

Situated in Honeysuckle along Newcastle’s Harbour, the scale of Horizon mediates between that of the envisaged taller buildings to the west and the approved run of buildings to the east. The project is articulated as a series of three related but distinct building forms that create landscape spaces in between and allow rear apartments to acquire long water views across the internal courtyards. Incorporating a diversity of residential accommodation, the development comprises 110 new apartments with generous external spaces in the form of terraces, balconies or roof gardens. Retail frontages on ground floor will activate the site’s key corners and provide important public spaces along two ‘major precinct view corridors’ in both Cottage Creek to the site’s west, and Steel Street, to the site’s east.