A new chapter for Ballarat Central

Lyons Place has reached Practical Completion, closing out a project that has reshaped both a site and a moment in Ballarat’s evolution. Residents have now moved in. The building is no longer an idea; it is part of daily life in the city.

Delivered with Hygge Property, the seven-level development introduces 51 apartments, 7 penthouses and 2 townhomes into Ballarat Central — a scale of mixed-density living not previously realised in the region. As the tallest residential building in Ballarat, Lyons Place demonstrates how thoughtful density can enter a regional centre without erasing the character that defines it.

Designed by Chamberlain Architects, the building works between Ballarat’s historic grain and its next phase. Proportion, restraint and material intelligence shape the form; the Krause brick podium nods to the city’s masonry heritage while supporting the performance demands of a contemporary mid-rise structure. At the centre of the plan, a courtyard by Phillip Withers acts as the project’s internal civic space — a quiet room of landscape held within the block, anchoring the building socially as well as spatially.

For Figurehead, Lyons Place represents the capacity to deliver complex, mixed-typology construction at true city scale within a regional context. Heritage retention, mid-rise sequencing, façade integration and constrained urban logistics required metropolitan-grade systems applied in Ballarat’s local conditions. It reflects how we see construction engaging with the future of regional cities — not lagging behind their growth, but building with it.

To our site team, subcontractors and project partners, thank you.
Thousands of decisions brought this building from ground to skyline.

And we’re already underway on what comes next for Ballarat.