Hampton Quarter: 9 Industry Awards. One Extraordinary Project.

The project didn’t start from easy ground. The site sat just six metres from an active rail corridor, requiring structural innovation to manage derailment risk. A Digital Train Radio System tower had to be relocated. A bus interchange rebuilt. Community and government stakeholders — VicTrack, Homes Victoria, Metro Trains, Bayside City Council, the Department of Transport and Planning — all had a seat at the table. Construction started during COVID and navigated lockdowns, supply chain disruptions and a shrinking workforce.

What came out the other side was a landmark bayside precinct: four boutique buildings designed by ARM Architecture and JAM Architects, with interiors by Carr and landscape by Rush Wright Associates. Coastal geology is the design reference — sculptural forms, muted tones, light-washed timbers, warm stone. The kind of place that looks like it belongs there.

Here’s the full industry awards list:

• Development of the Year – High-Density Residential (Under 200) — Urban Developer Awards for Industry Excellence
• Precinct Rejuvenation Award (Victoria) — Australian Apartment Advocacy Awards
• Precinct Rejuvenation Award (National) — Australian Apartment Advocacy Awards
• Di Ritter Pioneering Award (Victoria) — Australian Apartment Advocacy Awards
• Di Ritter Pioneering Award (National) — Australian Apartment Advocacy Awards
• Best Apartment Complex over $20 million — HIA Victorian Awards
• Apartment Complex of the Year — HIA Victorian Awards
• Apartments (Mid-Rise) — UDIA Victoria Awards
• Apartments (Mid-Rise) — UDIA National Awards

That’s a clean sweep across some of the most respected programs in the industry.

Hampton Quarter sold out at completion.

That result came before the awards — a sign the market responded to quality before the industry formally recognised it.The nine wins validate what the project team set out to prove: that a complex, constrained site in a high-demand suburb could be delivered without cutting corners, and with something genuinely worth celebrating at the end.

For Pace, it’s further confirmation that the way we work — careful, collaborative, end-to-end — produces results that last.

Congratulations to the full project team: epc.Pacific, ARM Architecture, JAM Architects, Carr, Rush Wright Associates, and everyone who worked on this project from concept to completion.