Tonsley Central (2025)

Scheduled for completion 2025

Positioned along Alawoona Avenue and framing the gateway into the Tonsley Innovation District, Swanbury Penglase, in collaboration with Peet, will deliver a 4-stage, six-storey residential development providing a total of 120 dwellings with a choice of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments.

The development has been planned around the provision for on-grade car parking accessible from the rear lane with apartment access located off Alawoona Avenue. An integrated landscaped verge will provide a sensitive interface with Alawoona Avenue which serves as a major thoroughfare for pedestrian access and connection to the Tonsley Railway Station. The landscape design and planting palette is consistent with the established landscaping throughout Tonsley and will contribute to enhance the landscape amenity along the road reserve.

The building design takes inspiration from site’s history as a car manufacturing plant. The use of repeated façade elements is a nod to the history of production of the assembly line whilst the intersecting folds and angles which form the reveals of the picture frame elements take inspiration from the metal forming processes in the production of car bodies.

The material palette, comprising blockwork, painted cladding, sheet metal and steel hoods and balustrades, is an honest reference to the site’s industrial heritage which allows the building to sit in harmony with its surrounding context. Artwork, in the form of large painted murals, will speak to the history of the site and celebrate its location as a gateway into Tonsley.