Some projects are a single day’s work. Others ask for something more. Our engagement with Lendlease on One Darling Point was very much the latter, a collaboration that spanned a full year and touched nearly every stage of the project’s early life.

One Darling Point is one of Sydney’s most anticipated residential developments. The tower, designed by Tzannes with interiors by Alexander & CO., sits on an elevated site on the border of Darling Point and Edgecliff, with sweeping views across Sydney Harbour to the Bridge, the Opera House, and beyond. It’s a project where the quality of every piece of supporting material matters enormously.

Lendlease came to us from the very beginning, right at the conception of the project, and that’s what made this one different. We weren’t brought in to document something finished. We were part of the process from the start.

Over twelve months we undertook a wide range of operations to support the project at different stages. We produced accurate view imagery from the site so the team could see exactly what future residents would look out to from each level. We captured reference photography for 3D rendering teams, helping to ground their visualisations in reality. And we carried out bespoke timelapse work across different times of day and season as the project evolved.

A critical part of the view imagery work was positional accuracy. When a buyer is making a decision based on what they’ll see from their apartment, that imagery has to be truthful. To achieve this we used RTK, or Real-Time Kinematic positioning, which corrects GPS data in real time to give centimetre-level accuracy in where the drone is placed in three-dimensional space. Without it, standard GPS drift means you might be a few metres off on any given flight, which at altitude translates to a noticeably different view. With RTK, we could return to the exact same position across multiple sessions months apart and be confident the imagery was consistent and accurate every time.

Each visit required careful planning and the right licences, but being embedded in the project over such a long period meant our work stayed consistent and genuinely useful rather than becoming a one-off snapshot quickly left behind.

We’re proud of the role we played in bringing One Darling Point to life, and proud of the trust Lendlease placed in us to see it through.