A six-storey apartment building in inner-suburban Melbourne has set a new standard for residential housing by being operationally carbon-neutral and including both smaller- and family-sized units, on a site most developers would never touch.
The $30 million development, Ferrars & York, in South Melbourne has 22 apartments and sits on a long and narrow 10-metre-wide site wedged between a tramline and a six-lane main road that previously housed a low-rise warehouse.
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