News & Developments: Mawson Lakes

[bm7500]

The Quest Apartments development is almost complete. They are just in the process of installing the lower canopy. It also looks as though this one may have a pool deck too!

[fishinajar]

That's no different than any other suburb ever built, IMO. The key here is there's density rather than acres of front garden no one uses.

Well said. Amen

[Will]

A new one from realestate.com:

Pulse Apartments

Lot 5 Coventry Street, Mawson Lakes

[AtD]

A seven story building was announced in the local Messenger and spotted by metro_minotaur at SSC - http://digitaledition.nrmessenger.com.a ... _Messenger p14



On the corner of Capital St and Metro Pde, the building will have 38 units, 44 car parks and cost $10m.

[ghs]

Good height but the building looks pretty slim....

38 shoeboxes & 44 car parks.

[Omicron]

Has anyone had any experience with Mawson Lakes' purple taps? Do things seem to be nice and green all year round?

[Nort]

Has anyone had any experience with Mawson Lakes' purple taps? Do things seem to be nice and green all year round?

I live in an apartment a street away from that proposed 7 storey block. We only use the purple tap for the toilet, however lots of gardens around and the park are kept nice and lively. There is actually a water truck that comes around once or twice a week and waters all the small trees with a hose.

[ghs]

wtf is a purple tap ?

[Aidan]

wtf is a purple tap ?

Recycled water - partly from Bolivar, partly from stormwater.

[Nort]

wtf is a purple tap ?

Like Aidan side, it's recycled water. Not suitable for drinking, but fine for watering gardens and flushing toilets. Most importantly because not many places are using it at the moment there are no water restrictions for Mawson Lakes so long as you are using the recycled water. That doesn't help me so much being in an apartment, but it sure makes for pretty gardens

[Prince George]

wtf is a purple tap ?

Like Aidan side, it's recycled water. Not suitable for drinking, but fine for watering gardens and flushing toilets. Most importantly because not many places are using it at the moment there are no water restrictions for Mawson Lakes so long as you are using the recycled water. That doesn't help me so much being in an apartment, but it sure makes for pretty gardens

But you say that you're using it in the toilet? That's cool - I'd seriously consider getting some plumbing work done on our place to put grey water into our cistern. Even with a pretty stingy toilet, we must be dumping a few hundred litres of drinking quality water down there every week.

[Nort]

wtf is a purple tap ?

Like Aidan side, it's recycled water. Not suitable for drinking, but fine for watering gardens and flushing toilets. Most importantly because not many places are using it at the moment there are no water restrictions for Mawson Lakes so long as you are using the recycled water. That doesn't help me so much being in an apartment, but it sure makes for pretty gardens

But you say that you're using it in the toilet? That's cool - I'd seriously consider getting some plumbing work done on our place to put grey water into our cistern. Even with a pretty stingy toilet, we must be dumping a few hundred litres of drinking quality water down there every week.

This is what the taps look like.

[skyliner]

While i like the increased density (via height) at Mawson Lakes, i see all these buildings as near-clones, differentiated by a set of fins and/or splashes of bright colour scattered here and there. Sure you need a theme across the suburb, but there's still something missing. Maybe it's because the majority of the buidlings appear as simple cubes with windows, or maybe it's the width of the streets that cancels out the effect of increased height. Maybe it's because the renders look so cheap (as to whether they end up looking cheap in real life is another matter).

Is it just me - or do others feel the same? Sorry for not being able to exactly put my finger on it.

Sorry to get into this discussion so late - I think I know what you are getting at Wayno - take a look at Sydney's inner suburbs around Randwick. Nearly all 4 floors (due to lift expenses if higher) and almost identical. It gives slum potential seeing they are also so close. I accept also that many outer suburbs are very much like this only one floor - probably a function of big developments by one compan as well as 'affordability' seeing i am into architecture, aesthetics and variety, I baulk at this.

SA - STATE ON THE MOVE

[Hooligan]

This is what the taps look like.

Please post a larger and more difficult to view picture

[pushbutton]

I'm so glad that the toilet connections have those signs on. The number of times I help myself to a quick glass of toilet water on a hot day I'd get very ill in Mawson Lakes if it weren't for those helpful warning signs.