# Short Lane in Surry Hills

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2020-06-11
**Categories:** architecture, board-formed-concrete, cantilevered-balconies, fine-grain-retail, komplete-construction, mid-block, midrise, missing-middle, surry-hills, sydney, urbanism, woods-bagot
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/short-lane-in-surry-hills

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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 for Komplete Construction, 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: And here are those cantilevered balconies again: 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

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