Construction | BARANGAROO | One Sydney Harbour | 72st/247m, 68st/230m, 30st/104m | Residential | U/C

Mornnb said:

Look above you at the renders posted by upwards. Most likely the bars and restaurants will be along the harbour in this building, continuing the success of Kings Street Wharf to the south.

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Yes. Logical place for them; as they will be under the residential buildings they will have a small but affluent captive group of possible clients.

An fine example of just how well this works is the Harrington/Gloucester Streets precinct where the Heritage Bar and Restaurant attracts local clientel, as does Giovannis; two new venues to open in the old Lawson-Menzies building shortly.

Mornnb said:

Look above you at the renders posted by upwards. Most likely the bars and restaurants will be along the harbour in this building, continuing the success of Kings Street Wharf to the south.

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Exactly - its about continuity and integrating both King Street Wharf and Barangaroo and Vice Versa.

Even at the rear of R8 & R9, there will be retail space.

If I had to speculate I'd say after the two existing waterfront residential buildings are completed in 2015. A revised concept plan needs to be lodged for Barangaroo South to account for Crown's proposal and the repositioning/height/bulk of the other buildings. Assuming this is lodged with the winning design for Crown in May/June, you'd expect concept plan approval sometime late 2013. Then a DA would need to be lodged for the detailed design of the residential towers in 2014 which could be approved by the second half of 2014. So I'd say 2015 is a far guess. Unlike Crown, I've seen or heard no indication that the residential towers are in the detailed design stage now.

http://smh.domain.com.au/real-estate-news/barangaroo-sticks-to-the-plot-20130426-2ijsc.html


Barangaroo sticks to the plot
Sydneysiders downsizing from a house into an apartment usually kiss goodbye to a front lawn, but not at the soon-to-be released Barangaroo.

Architect Andrew Andersons says the five penthouses at the 80-unit block he has designed at Barangaroo South will each come with a patch of grass - yes, real grass. There is also a large communal grassed area on the rooftop for all residents.

''This is a very democratic building,'' Mr Andersons says. ''There's a body corporate roof garden with a lawn where everyone can go and lie in the sun.''

Mr Anderson's Barangaroo waterfront apartments - to be completed in 2015 - will have an industrial look, constructed from a zinc-like metal, timber and glass. They will all have harbour views as well as eco-friendly features such as photovoltaic cells on the roof that will activate the water-treatment plants, as well as provide privacy from the commercial towers above.

Advertisement Although there will be airconditioning, Mr Andersons says it won't be required as two-thirds of the apartments will be cross-ventilated. Bougainvillea creepers and screens will also help block out the afternoon sun and unwanted eyes.

''I think it's really important that you can be private on your balcony or flaunt it,'' Mr Andersons says.

There will be 79 apartments in a block next door designed by Richard Francis-Jones.

Barangaroo's 60-square-metre one-bedroom apartments are expected to cost from $1 million, and the 100-square-metre two-bedders from $2 million.

Prices for the three-bedroom Andersons-designed penthouses are yet to be officially released but could fetch more than $3 million.

Mr Andersons compared his shared rooftop lawn to that at the famous 1920s block The Astor, in Macquarie Street. ''Everyone has access to the roof garden and although it's astro turf, it's fabulous and there's this wonderful panorama,'' he says.

Australian Property Monitors' data shows apartments in The Astor have been slow to move of late. A two-bedroom apartment, the same size as its Barangaroo equivalent, is available for $1.55 million, having dropped by almost $200,000 since it was first listed in February last year.

A three-bedder ''untouched for 30 years'', and without a buyer for another year, is priced at $2 million. And a particularly grand two-bedder featuring cabinetry designed by Francis de Groot, who most famously slashed the ribbon at the opening of the Harbour Bridge in 1932, is priced at $3.35 million.

But the cutting-edge, eco-friendly Barangaroo apartments are expected to be far more popular with buyers - both locally and overseas - when launched off-the-plan in June through agents CBRE.

New render of R8 & R9 from the south


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323982704578453600740415578.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

due to design comp for hotel, this has included the whole precicnt which includes the 3 resi towers
they are now 2x200m slender structures. more open at street and less blocking for rnimbys behind

So does this mean that the winning architect for Crown has input into the new resi towers too? Or are they just included to show that there are a couple more towers to build?

Good opportunity for Trump to talk with relevant parties if they are genuinely interested in a Sydney presence. They won't have a huge hotel presence (recall 150-200 rooms being mentioned) so still plenty of room for apartments