"Weave" wins the Northbourne Flats design competition

Yo mama’s got more Weave than a dog in traffic.

I don’t know why, but architects seem to hate Canberra.

Anyway, he hasn’t the foggiest idea about solar energy, I wish they would consult some professionals before relying on their token one semester subject in their undergraduate, that was obviously taught to make them look good, rather than provide them any comprehensive practical understanding.

Building sucks and he knows it.

bigfeet said :

Mysteryman said :

The positive side is that they appear to have provided sufficient underground carparking – a concept that ACTPLA generally struggle to grasp.

If I lived there, I wouldn’t be using that park.

It would be a perfect opportunity for the ‘special’ residents to break into dozens of cars sight unseen, every night.

It will also give them a great place to hide their stolen cars out of sight.

I hadn’t thought of that. I was more excited by the fact that a new residential development was proposed with adequate underground parking. It’s seems to be a rarity of late.

Mysteryman said :

The positive side is that they appear to have provided sufficient underground carparking – a concept that ACTPLA generally struggle to grasp.

If I lived there, I wouldn’t be using that park. It would be a perfect opportunity for the ‘special’ residents to break into dozens of cars sight unseen, every night.

It will also give them a great place to hide their stolen cars out of sight.

MummaBear said :

gospeedygo said :

Really? I’ve suspected for a long time that whole architecture fraternity is a front for a double-super-secret organisation with the sole aim of designing joke buildings and laughing their arses off when they actually get built. This doesn’t help disprove my theory.

+1

My theory is that because government restricts the supply of permits to develop land the people who obtain those licences gain significant monopoly rents that they can spend on dressing their buildings up. If the government let anyone build an apartment block on any land, competition to drive prices down would be fierce and buildings would be a lot more modest.

Mysteryman said :

Also worth noting that many of the internal walls have corners that are greater than, or less than 90 degrees. That’s going to result in a lot of wasted space as furniture can’t be effectively placed in corners.

I hate it when people come along and redesign something established like this. As you said, there is a reason people make rooms square. Making them at odd angles is just wasteful at a time when people are trying to make buildings as wasteless as possible.

Wow. 905 units.

One hopes for sufficient visitor parking.

And possibly some thought to the effective utilisation of nearby Haig Park, being the closest significant greenspace.

Well at least we got to experience a brief period of hope.

Oh my, what a wonderful sight this will be for the first time Canberra visitor driving down Northbourne Ave. Looks a bit like a UK housing estate built around 1980s, they age very ungracefully.

Hope the tenants maintain their (expensive, huge) new accommodation better than they do currently.

Adding another 600 or so government homes?

Feeling better about upgrading my home security already.