Billionaire’s Crib Among Chippendale Share Houses Named ‘Straya’s #1 Home

Know how you’re struggling to afford property on account of your sick, sick obsession with smashed avo on toast?
Well, an awards night dedicated to celebrating all the pimp cribs you’ll probably never get within a stone’s throw of calling your own (bitter? us?) has named Australia‘s #1.
Called Indigo Slam (your house isn’t a thing unless it has a schmancy name), the four-storey property has a massive concrete facade that spans 25m in a street of terrace houses mostly occupied by uni students in Sydney‘s Chippendale.
It was designed for billionaire philanthropist and art collector Judith Neilson, who gave architect William Smart the very ambitious brief to mastermind “the best [house] in Sydney” and one that would “last 100 years”.
He delivered though, with Indigo picking up the country’s top award for house design – aka the Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture – at this year’s Australian Institute of Architects National Awards; the judges called it “a piece of sculpture to be lived in”
Its location is somewhat of a novelty, given that almost zero billionaires build a house in a non-blue ribbon suburb, and especially not one on the site of former warehouse.
The house’s pimp features include a 60 person dining table and a three-storey staircase hall that literally runs the full length of the land. 
house or maze?
tfw you shit in a palace
How the other half live, eh.

Source: The Australian.
Photo: William Smart.

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