I won this competition by drawing the first stages in my bedroom at my parent's house. John Wilkin drove me to the printer in the city and then to the place where we lodged the scheme. John has been tirelessly and crazily working at my side ever since and now he is a director in our practice. This was 1994 when a large project like this was rare and even rarer the design of this level in a block of flats.

Peter Dransfield was our client at Walker and I now see how hard it must have been for Peter to place his trust in a 26 year old with no experience but we got through it and it's a good building given the leap of faith in the capacity of a fledgling firm.

The Project was the result of an International Design Competition run jointly between the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, New South Wales Chapter and the City-West Development Corporation of the New South Wales State Government.

The building involves seventy-six apartments in an urban suburb of Sydney with a design that represents the highest density any government in Australia has accepted for a sub-urban site.

The project involved a collaboration with government authorities on various tiers as well as a developer client in order to ensure that the scheme was at once profitable as well as meeting the competition requirements.