News & Discussion: Low/Mid-Rise CBD Development

[Ben]

New 8 level apartment building on south terrace. Probably doesn't deserve it's own thread. I personally think South terrace should have a much higher height limit.

Type Development Application Received
Application Number DA/624/2010
Lodgement Date 18/08/2010
Latest Decision
Location Land, 111-115 South Terrace, ADELAIDE SA 5000
Description Construct 8 level residentail building with underground carparking - 9 apartments.

Cost of this building is $12.M .... will be expensive aprtments i'm guessing.

[Wayno]

Description Construct 8 level residential building with underground carparking - 9 apartments.

Cost of this building is $12.M .... will be expensive aprtments i'm guessing.

wowza! 12 divided by 9, is err, um - carry the 3, slide it under, and...hmm. more than $1m each!

[monotonehell]

Description Construct 8 level residential building with underground carparking - 9 apartments.

Cost of this building is $12.M .... will be expensive aprtments i'm guessing.

wowza! 12 divided by 9, is err, um - carry the 3, slide it under, and...hmm. more than $1m each!

Corn! What are they going to sell them at each?

[Adelarch]

Same developer as Liverpool City West Apartments:

Type: Development Application Received
Application Number: DA/381/2010
Lodgement Date: 21/05/2010
Location: 288-290 Waymouth Street, ADELAIDE SA 5000
Description: Construct 6 Storey Apartment building with ground floor retail tenancy

There is a render of this one in Cr Plumridge's latest notes. It looks like a good scale for this part of town.

[SRW]

Same developer as Liverpool City West Apartments:

Type: Development Application Received
Application Number: DA/381/2010
Lodgement Date: 21/05/2010
Location: 288-290 Waymouth Street, ADELAIDE SA 5000
Description: Construct 6 Storey Apartment building with ground floor retail tenancy

There is a render of this one in Cr Plumridge's latest notes. It looks like a good scale for this part of town.

And we get rid of a blonde-brick monstrosity in the process. Hope it proceeds.

[Ben]

111 South terrace is now on Public consultation.

9 level apartment building, roughly 27M in height.

http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/adcc ... _plans.pdf

[skyliner]

There appears to be more mid rise bldgs along Sth Tce than it appears - anyone know how many over the entire stretch?

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CITY SKYLINE

[stumpjumper]

The best thing about mid-rise development is that it does not rob nearby allotments of the potential for similar mid-rise development (due to issues of overshadowing, massing etc).

Further, the local impact on traffic flows and parking of mid-rise is less severe than the impact of high-rise.

While the returns per development to an individual developer are likely to be lower for mid-rise than for high-rise, there is still an attractive commercial return and the overall effect on the city of mid-rise is, IMHO, more beneficial.

There is an argument, for which I'm happy to join the cheer squad, for zoning to allow mid-rise across the city except in core business areas. Such planning has proved itself around the world, notably in Paris.

[monotonehell]

There appears to be more mid rise bldgs along Sth Tce than it appears - anyone know how many over the entire stretch?

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CITY SKYLINE

LOL nice choice of phrase.

[stumpjumper]

There appears to be more mid rise bldgs along Sth Tce than it appears

Yeah - my brain has just tied itself in a Moebius loop! LOL! I know what you mean though.

[Xaragmata]

A few pics of Common Ground affordable housing in Light Sq from Saturday:

[stumpjumper]

That's exactly what the city needs more of!

[Xaragmata]

That's exactly what the city needs more of!

One of the better projects in that part of the city - looking forward to it being unwrapped.

Some more good (and maybe not so good) medium density in Sturt St / Whitmore Sq, also from Saturday:

Christie Walk



Sturt St



Sturt / Whitmore (unfinished, but the cladding didn't impress me)







http://xaragmata.cable.nu/album/adelaid ... index.html

[Just build it]

^ I like these, it's a perfect level of density for that location. I'm guessing (hoping) the corner project will see a few coats of paint before completion.

Are they solar panels or just tin sheet on the awnings?

[crawf]

Whitemore Sq development is horrible.

Looks like some third-world housing block