13-storey Parkview Apartments building planned for Adelaide
A $35 MILLION, 13-storey complex is proposed for the corner of South Terrace and Hutt St, complete with a restaurant and specialist medical centre.
A $35 MILLION, 13-storey complex is proposed for the corner of South Terrace and Hutt St, complete with a restaurant and specialist medical centre.
Parkview Apartments will become a new gateway to the city, according to architect Anthony Donato, who is behind the 13-storey design.
It will include a restaurant and function room, specialist medical centre, and will see the restoration of heritage building ‘Davaar’, which sits to the fore of the site on South Terrace.
The restoration of the 1876-built building, most recently home to the TPI Association and currently unoccupied, is intended to be a catalyst for the regeneration of a section of the CBD that has been overlooked, Mr Donato said.
“It’s a defining position for the city with views out to the parklands. The heritage building will be cleaned and upgraded,” Mr Donato said.
He said the local residents association and Hutt St businesses had welcomed the proposed development.
“A frameless glass link incorporating glass lift will link the existing heritage building, which will be used as sleep apnoea consulting rooms, with the new multi-level building,” Mr Donato said. “We spent a lot of time with the Development Assessment Commission.”
As well as 37 high-grade one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, the building will feature a top floor penthouse with infinity swimming pool, which has already sold, two weeks before developer August Towers starts its official marketing campaign.
Mr Donato said that immediately above the ground floor restaurant will be a two-level, medical sleep apnoea centre, while an underground, Manhattan-style car-stacking facility will accommodate 60 cars.
The apartment tower will be enveloped in a frameless glass on all sides to give a twin tower visual effect, he said.
Solar power via roof-mounted solar panels will aid energy efficiency, he said, as will maximising protected north light while minimising east and west facing openings.
August Towers hopes to begin building later this year with a completion date in late 2017. Eighteen of the 37 apartments, starting at $379,000, have already sold.