This project demonstrates a confident and sensitive integration of a significant historic original building with a new housing wing. It places a focus on communal and social spaces that bode well for its future inhabitation.<\/p>\n
The qualities of the public spaces in the old building have been effectively incorporated into a new program and enhance the new uses whilst preserving the detail and character. The new roof garden and its preservation for outdoor use by residents is a key implementation as is the removal of unnecessary parking. The bold colour and well-scaled layout of the roof garden is both inviting and interactive. The graphic-type screens provide an appropriate juxtaposition to the detail of the historic building.<\/p>\n
The 28th<\/sup> Street Apartments are a terrific demonstration of architectural skill in spatial design and the programming and incorporation of new technology. Koning Eizenberg have orchestrated the effective re-use of a significant historic building for a contemporary use. They have demonstrated how these qualities can create a balance between the private and public needs of this complex project type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This project demonstrates a confident and sensitive integration of a significant historic original building with a new housing wing. It places a focus on communal and social spaces that bode well for its future inhabitation. The qualities of the public spaces in the old building have been effectively incorporated into a new program and … Continue reading 28th Street Apartments by Koning Eizenberg Architecture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":5180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-awards","category-winners-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6364,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions\/6364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}