Sensational-Adelaide.com

Ben wrote:Strange this one has gone quiet. Not even a sales office or information on the website.

Ben wrote:What happened to this?

REPLICATING a suburban neighbourhood sky high in the middle of the Adelaide CBD is the aim of a unique apartment complex that dispenses with traditional corridors and lobbies.

The Palladio Property Group have lodged plans for a 152-apartment development on Angas St

that will be split into two buildings of eight and 13 storeys either side of Queen St.

If approved, it will be another feature of the city’s changing landscape with more than $300 million in investment across seven private tower projects approved in the last six months by the Development Assessment Commission.

Palladio proposal architect Paul Pruszinski said residents would reach their apartments via outdoor bridges and common garden and social areas on every floor, promoting a level of neighbourliness usually inhibited by high-rise design.

The proposal forms part of a trend among developers realising that many Adelaideans need the lure of suburban comforts to draw them to city living.

“There are no indoor common corridors. Apartment corridors generally inhibit neighbourhoods,” Mr Pruszinski said.

“You get to replicate a lot of suburban features, like you get to talk to your neighbour over the ‘fence’, only six storeys up.”

With a development value of $80 million, the project will also have 16 townhouses and a range of shops, offices and eateries at ground level with at least one carpark for each resident.

It is heavily scaled back from Palladio’s 2012 proposal for the site of six buildings as high as 19 storeys.

[Shuz] wrote:I'll reserve judgement until some more renders come out. It looks okay. In fact I prefer the look of the shorter building to the taller one. The brick façade is a nice touch.

I think it was a given this one was always going to be 'dumbed' down. The previous proposal was just an indication really of what could be achieved with the new height limits (as I remember it was the the first development proposed off the back of the height limit changes). It's just simply been changed to what they (and I) obviously believe is a realistic proposal for the Adelaide residential apartment market. Too many apartments, and you have an oversupply and less likelihood of it going ahead - which is what would have occurred under the previous proposal.