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Cubism is not dead!
In fact, the straight line – that thing so abhorred by nature – has become the sole instrument in the architects’ box of tricks.
A high priced slum in the making.
Just imagine it; a lovely balcony upon which to sup one’s evening clensing ale whilst enloying the full symphony of late commutor traffic and the associated scent of benzine and diesel fumes.
The mind boggles.
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I wonder what it will look like when the scaffolding comes off?
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Uninspired springs to mind. That’s being as kind as I can fucking muster.
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A challenge to Perth developers. Try to build 1. Just 1 building that is larger than your average house WITHOUT using tilt panel concrete construction. Go on, I dare you. Does anyone remember how to lay a brick?
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Tilt up brick.
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No, that particular skill hasn’t been brought with most of the working holiday visa holders relegated to construction
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“… European style living spaces.” Maybe if you are in a prison or something.
I have seen the future. And it is tilt-up. Get tilting.
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I hope they have those Euro toilets that can’t take toilet paper.
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Shouldn’t this be tagged under Shedism?
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One day people will be calling on the govt to preserve our shedist remnants.
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They’re right. The green initiatives and smart home technology will last until September 8.
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The pre-cast panels and design style do not make this a bad building/development and pointing them out for ridicule effectively marks you as the same sort of unimaginative ‘vibrant’ plonker as the developers probably are. The cookie-cutter apartments and total lack of ‘design for site’ (solar orientation appears to be a lost concept here) are what makes these bad on 4 (maybe 5) levels.
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Have you ever seen so many people on the balconies of an apartment block in Perth? Or observed so much activity on a ground floor? Why are the occupants drawn as twenty, or at a pinch, thirty somethings, when we know that in reality such buildings house sixty year old empty nesters, ready to complain at the first sign of live music at a venue three blocks away?
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The yuccas on the balconies are nice.
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I vote we add Yuccas to the ‘Cocos – most prolific yet useless fucking plant’ category.
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Was going to write a comment about “I prefer natives climbing my fence”, but was too difficult. So I’m going to say I prefer bougainvillea.
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A natural bogan-proof fence
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On Uranus?
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my whores are on time
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Boganvilla?
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Or some ornamental fruit? Offers form and function.
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I thought balconies were only supposed to be used by the air con unit. At a pinch maybe a clothes hanger or (decorative only) Webber?
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The artist would have us believe the balconies in this complex are for same sex couples or single males contemplating suicide, as far as I can ascertain.
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Definitely trying to tap the lesbian market.
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Aren’t we all.
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You wouldn’t say that if you’d seen the trio living next door to me!
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Just imagine what they are saying about you
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Something is a bit off with the balcony ceilings – do they tilt back? Given the expected height of the viewer its all a bit strange.
Oh joy, product of the month – aluminium composite panel for the non functional verandah.
Definitely won’t be hot in there by 2 pm.
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And it better be facing due west.
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I have to say that the building in this rendering is a symphony of Miesian subtlety compared to the McSams still shooting up all over New York like crabgrass. I also have to say that balconies are one of those urban features that, at least in New York, are always advertised and never used. Matters have not improved since earlier this month when a young lady plunged 17 stories to her death after leaning on a railing of an otherwise unimpeachable Art Deco building that had not been properly maintained.
Whatever your quarrel with Perth’s architects and landlords, they don’t seem actually serenely content to kill you.
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Tilt up panels are squashing subcontractors all the time.
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