COM: [West Lakes] View Point | 31m | 8lvls | Residential

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Bulldozer is on site. Asbestos removal is complete.

There was no activity at all over the weekend but I think it's a safe bet the bulldozer will be in full swing all day tomorrow and for however long it takes to finish the job.

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The Chinese restaurant was demolished today (sorry I couldn't get photos as I had no camera on me).

There's just a bit of rubble left on site, but that should be all gone by early tomorrow then they can start work on the apartments.

[Xaragmata]

I have some pics of the rubble from yesterday at http://www.xaragmata.thebbs.org/album/a ... index.html

[Norman]

Go All State

Thanks mate!

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I'm surprised how fast a building can disappear really. There is now nothing left, not even rubble. Just a flat, level site.

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Actually I'm not sure but I think the sign is still there advertising the old restaurant! Was yesterday anyway.

[Wayno]

I had dinner with the owners of this site last night.

We talked about why it is 8-storeys, and apparently it's because the "Building Code" requires many more safety features and infrastructure for buildings of 9 storey's or greater (auto-fire sprinklers, etc)! so the council decided to set a general 8 storey limit for west lakes.

That being said, the council did not rule out the notion of taller buildings at West Lakes (subject to case-by-case approval), but the extra costs for a few additional floors due to the building code is certainly more prohibitive...

[Xaragmata]

This is being marketed as "Viewpoint" - render & details at Phil McMahon
http://www.philmcmahon.com.au/viewpoint.shtml

[Shuz]

[mattblack]

7 levels not 8

[crawf]

7 levels of apartments... and a ground floor.

= 8

[mattblack]

Oh yes, I remember this already being debated on wether to include the ground floor as level 1. I wont start it up again for all our sakes.

[monotonehell]

Oh yes, I remember this already being debated on wether to include the ground floor as level 1. I wont start it up again for all our sakes.

Heheh don't fall for the classic trap of confusing the labels we put on floors and the number of floors in a building. There's a number of systems for labelling floors; some start at ground (or lobby in some places) and call the first story "1". Others start at ground level and call it "Level 1". Some buildings are built into the side of a hill and have two "grounds" (Think of our Myer Centre with Terrace and Rundle levels, I visited a hotel in Greece that was on the side of a cliff and it had a ground at the bottom and another at the top). Others still have extra special purpose levels, like "Sky Lobbies" or "Mezzanines" which are still another level but interrupt the regular labelling of floors.

There is a debate over whether functional sub ground levels should be included in the count though... *troll*

[AG]

Oh yes, I remember this already being debated on wether to include the ground floor as level 1. I wont start it up again for all our sakes.

Heheh don't fall for the classic trap of confusing the labels we put on floors and the number of floors in a building. There's a number of systems for labelling floors; some start at ground (or lobby in some places) and call the first story "1". Others start at ground level and call it "Level 1". Some buildings are built into the side of a hill and have two "grounds" (Think of our Myer Centre with Terrace and Rundle levels, I visited a hotel in Greece that was on the side of a cliff and it had a ground at the bottom and another at the top). Others still have extra special purpose levels, like "Sky Lobbies" or "Mezzanines" which are still another level but interrupt the regular labelling of floors.

There is a debate over whether functional sub ground levels should be included in the count though... *troll*

Yes, we use what most other countries see as a very strange way of numbering our floors. We're one of very few countries that call the lowest floor with the entrance to the street "ground level". Most other countries call that same floor "level 1". In Hong Kong, one skyscraper (Hopewell Centre in Wanchai) has a ground floor facing the harbour, but the back entrance is on the 17th floor because the hillside it sits on is so steep! And we don't skip floor numbers unlike a lot of countries, such as buildings in the US skip floor 13, and Asian skyscrapers often skip floor 14 and other floors ending in the number 4.

Good to see that Viewpoint is starting to make progress, nice group of medium to higher density buildings starting to emerge in the area, hopefully the transport infrastructure upgrades shape this further.

[Will]

I have just come home from a random drive through West Lakes.

It appears that construction has begun on this building, as what appeared to be a concrete floor slab for the ground floor appeared to be in place.

I also noted the name of the website for the development from which I share these photos:

http://www.viewpointwestlakes.com.au/index.html