We need more such mid rise exemplars of the #architectureofhousing in #auscities
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#architectureofhousing - we need to learn from such exemplars
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The inherent flexibility of #sydneyterracehouses
Built as a row of 3, with the right hand one being 3 storeys.
In built housing diversity on small lots
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Professor @sustainabletall.bsky.social lays down key importance of housing quality;
-people send 69% of their time at home
-buildings emit 1/3 of total emissions
-concrete emits 8% total global emissions
-social costs of housing
All crucial inputs to every housing discussion
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Great to challenge the stifling orthodoxy of apartment planning & how we could live.
Kitchen & table in the best place in the plan, able to selectively open to either or both orientations. Summer & winter due to generous windows & external blinds
#architectureofhousing
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Unbuilt project for a series of courtyard houses - a rare but needed type in Aust
#courtyardhouses; compact, efficient, private, open to landscape, light & air - perfect for our climate, appropriate density.
This one of so many approved housing projects not being built…
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An exemplar of the #architectureofhousing;
Candalepas architects design in President Ave Sutherland.
Great 6 storey scale, urbane, strong & durable material character, generous balconies with deep shade.
This is the west facade - external shading & balconies - no exposed glass visible.
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Is this the oldest / first public housing in Australia?
The Boatmans Row of 16 houses was built in 1893 in Newcastle to house harbour pilots near the port.
Fine design, beautifully detailed robust elements- entry bridges, bay windows, central gables, dunnys still out the back
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NSW Govt Architect #abbiegalvin presenting the Pattern Book designs for a new generation of #sydneyapartmentbuildings.
The small lot, 4-6 storey scale is what’s so missing in all the discussion of planning & housing density, design & diversity.
Fingers crossed that it lifts #architectureofhousing
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The surprise of the beautiful & urbane #themanorapartments in central Brisbane, deft scale & urban presence, thin section/high proportion of perimeter to plan area, fine facades & enduring material quality.
Even adorned with gargoyles? Or are they eagles?
Anyone know Architect
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No ordinary apartment tower;
Beyond its appearance, the “exploded plan” organisation of new #WOHA design overlooking Brisbane River reverses common practice of maximum footprint/minimum facade.
So 6 of 8 corner apartments, more sun & outlook, light & air in common lobbies.
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The coloured louvres in the circulation slot in our Llandaff St apartments in Bondi Junction (designed with @petermcgregor.bsky.social)
Colours change from floor to floor, between east & west sides, but always allowing air, light, outlook & play to every lobby
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Superb plan!
Cooperative housing in Zurich by Peter Märkli.
Why aren’t such types - thin section & just 2 apartments/core commonplace in Aust? After all we have some of the most expensive housing in the world??
So much wrong with our housing - much more than just bad planning
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Surprised to see our Majestic Theatre conversion listed amongst 5 favourite housing projects by Neometro Director Lochlan Sinclair - leading Melbourne apartment designer.
The complex & quirky 2009 adaptation still a favourite of ours too #architectureofhousing
architectureau.com/articles/loc...
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All common areas have outlook & openable windows
Privacy & range of balconies.
Even gets most bathrooms windows!
Yet people often claim such basic amenity & passive environmental design too hard..
#urbanhousing
#sydneyapartmentbuildings
#apartmentdesign
#crossventilation
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Our project for the renewal of a large seniors living village on the north shore.
Mid-rise housing set in generous gardens, with projecting curved corner balconies open to northern sun & outlook south to bush.
#architectureofhousing
#siteplanning
#sydneyapartmentbuildings
#densitywithamenity
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..plan adaptable within, with a mix of single & double height apartments.
Built reality presents a fine urban frontage, entries via the balconies which express the section.
35 years old, the enduring qualities of liveable, excellent #architectureofhousing so important
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How to resolve a triangular apartment at the end of a curved #apartmentbuilding - open it to the light & air at every opportunity, give it a long balcony facing the pocket park.
Our #arcapartments on the hill behind Bondi.
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In urban housing, it’s essential to use every available centimetre to maximum advantage (& not just when your site is triangular)
Selecting the type, refining floor plans, sharing sun, air & amenity, making the passage from street to home a memorable daily experience
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Architect Denys Lasdun’s remarkable Keeling Tower in Bethnal Green, east London.
Built in 1957 as public housing, its 4 ‘wings’ off a central core have a combination of 1 & 2 storey apartments.
An exemplar of #architectureofhousing, perhaps with highest ratio of external wall to plan!
Sold off 2001
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The understated urbanity & clipped character of Georgian London, here & about Bedford Square.
But unbelievable in C21st that the park in the centre is still private…
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Great to tour London public housing with architect #PaulKarakusevic, seeing the renewal of the Colville Estate in the east. Selective demolition, refurbishment of the sounder old blocks, new connective streets & excellent new robust brick #architectureofhousing 1/2
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Revisiting a memorable apartment building which I lived in for a while when studying in Paris long ago.
Wonderful arrangement of sequence of 4 blocks defining 3 courtyard gardens, linked by arched passageways.
Gardens open on side to neighbours.
Great way to use a long block
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Inevitably in architecture many of the designs you do don’t get built.
Here a competition scheme for new public housing on a fantastic, large ‘butterfly-shaped’ in Fremantle.
Disappointingly 7 years later site still vacant…as if need for social & affordable housing has abated
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DA for 20 apartment scheme in Bowral approved!
But why did it take 18 months yet again?
Only issues were;
- Was DA submitted car park fully compliant with Aust Standards? Well yes it was..
- How to stack bins along kerbside..
Great amenity, landscape, sun & air throughout…
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Excellent perspective on the essential need for good housing by @michaelzanardo.bsky.social.
Govt can lead through both good policy & the implementation of public & affordable housing. Done well, this should lift general standard of #architectureofhousing
architectureau.com/articles/mic...
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How to fit 3 great apartments on a triangular site! Great roofscape & silhouette too.
Riccardo Bofill in Barcelona
Fantastic exemplar of the #architectureofhousing
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In & out of the west facade of our #horizonapartments in Newcastle (designed with @ckdsarchitecture)
Deep shade, louvres, balconies & panels of blank walls, rather than an unprotected sheets of black glass.
#architectureofhousing
#westfacade
#environmentaldesign
#passiveenvironmentaldesign
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