A reimagining of urban living with a central focus on community, generosity, and connection to nature.

Crafted through a meticulous analysis of the site and its surroundings, 801 Ann aims to seamlessly engage with the existing context of Fortitude Valley whilst offering rejuvenation to one of the more intense inner-city suburbs of Brisbane. It envisions weaving a vibrant, active, and generous urban atmosphere into the Valley heart, utilizing urban gestures and deep sheltered public spaces to establish a porous and harmonious interface with the city. A deliberate focus on the power of landscape is at the heart of all design strategies embedded in the project.

801 Ann focuses on creating a vertical neighbourhood centred on community and well-being. The centrepiece of the development, a voluminous city room on Morgan Street crafts a publicly accessible space with vibrant facades, sub-tropical gardens, and a ‘heroic’ quandong tree. This entry threshold acts as a gathering place where residents, visitors, workers, and the broader community can come together to engage in the intensity of urban life all in the context of a subtropical garden space.