Award-winning Australian architect Frank Stanisic is a huge fan of apartment living. He himself has resided, with his family, in apartments for many years. He has also designed more than 5000 in a total of 30 buildings since 2013 alone – half of which are currently under construction.

"I think the popularity of apartment living, even in the prestige market, over the past 10 years has indicated that living in houses is passe," says Stanisic boldly. "There'll always be some people who prefer to live in a harbourside mansion in Vaucluse or a big house in Toorak, but increasingly they're discovering that well-designed apartments offer a very good standard of living.