Description

Nine Wilson Avenue is a pragmatic and optimistic response to the pressures shaping contemporary apartment housing. Designed within tight economic, regulatory and urban constraints, the project demonstrates how restraint and careful planning can deliver generous, durable, and socially responsive outcomes.

Two interrelated buildings are organised around a nine-metre-wide courtyard, with circulation conceived as elevated streets that connect dwellings, encourage social interaction, and reinforce legibility.

Architectural expression is carefully calibrated across multiple scales, balancing efficiency with moments of generosity and delight. Sustainability is embedded through dual-aspect planning, cross-ventilation, a climatically responsive courtyard, and durable, low-maintenance materials that support long-term adaptability and community resilience.

The development comprises 71 dual-aspect dwellings across a diverse range of typologies, including 12 tenure-blind Specialist Disability Accommodation apartments, alongside commercial and office uses.

Located within the Jewell Station precinct, the project continues a long-standing collaboration between Neometro and MA+Co to deliver high-quality, mid-density housing within commercially viable frameworks.

What's On

Gain an insight into the design journey and the development process, through tours led jointly by the architect, MA+Co, and the developer, Neometro, offering two complementary perspectives on the project.

The program provides an opportunity to engage with current housing discussions in Melbourne and understand how Nine Wilson Avenue responds to economic, regulatory and social challenges shaping contemporary apartment living.

In Collaboration With:

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  MA+Co

  MA+Co is a Melbourne-based architecture studio built on over 30 years of design practice, led by Principal Karen Alcock. Established as MAArchitects in 2008, the studio has evolved into a collaborative practice delivering thoughtful, enduring architecture across residential, multi-residential, commercial and mixed-use projects.
  
   
  
  MA+Co’s work is defined by a commitment to creating engaging, memorable buildings that age gracefully within their neighbourhoods, with a strong emphasis on social and environmental responsibility. Their approach establishes meaningful connections between materials, landscape, climate, history and culture, producing architecture grounded in place and characterised by clarity, integrity and durability.
  
   
  
  At its core, MA+Co is driven by a belief in architecture’s capacity to enrich communities, creating liveable environments that support how people live, work and connect.

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  Neometro

  Founded in 1985, Neometro has established itself as Melbourne’s most long-standing design-focused and socially led development group. With a track record spanning 40 years, we’ve garnered a reputation for delivering enduring buildings of uncompromising quality. Many of our projects have received awards for their architecture and design. We’re heartened by these accolades and humbled by the value our peers place on our work.