# Short Lane in Surry Hills

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2020-06-11

architecture, board-formed-concrete, cantilevered-balconies, fine-grain-retail, komplete-construction, mid-block, midrise, missing-middle, surry-hills, sydney, urbanism, woods-bagot

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![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/1c9bce0430ba223c0b5d068dd0d32d83.jpg)

Just look at these deep cantilevered balconies and this board-formed concrete. Let's also not forget the fine-grain retail and small mid-block laneway.

Designed by [Woods Bagot](https://www.woodsbagot.com/projects/short-lane/) for [Komplete Construction](http://www.kompleteconstruction.com.au/portfolio/bourke-2-2/), the "Short Lane" project was completed in the Surry Hills neighborhood of Sydney in 2018. It has 22 suites -- each with both north and south exposure -- and is about 1,900 square meters in total. So the average suite size looks to be somewhere in the range of 80 square meters.

Here's a peak inside:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/63d6a9d37b5f3a036e4d95cfed103580.jpg)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/93c0e319530f651835e9f75ba6161b1c.jpg)

And here are those cantilevered balconies again:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/27f5ff5ca6a808bed9d0020cfaff93e9.jpg)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5e5257b778fe42eb4c544173a2b947ee.jpg)

I have no idea what the entitlement process is in Sydney for a project like this. If you do, please share it in the comments below. But this is undoubtedly an attractive scale and type of infill housing, something that I think should be encouraged and allowed as-of-right. No multi-year rezoning process. No complicated site plan process. Just cool infill housing.

_Photos:_ [_Woods Bagot_](https://www.woodsbagot.com/projects/short-lane/)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/short-lane-in-surry-hills)*