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Lime Street is designed around its own internal street, and the usual north-south configuration of such buildings has been turned 90 degrees so that sunlight favours not individual units, but the north-facing walkways, courtyards and roof-top gardens where residents like to gather.
managing the construction of the facility, and it continues to manage its day-to-day operations. At the 2013 Western Australian Architecture Awards in July, Lime Street won in the Harold Krantz Award for Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing category and will move on to compete in the national awards. The Lime Street Project also won the Sustainable Urban Development category as well as the prestigious President’s Award in the 2013 Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) WA Awards for Excellence. The President’s Award recognises a project as being the best among all winning submissions. The rest of Lime Street’s environs await development, and the neighbourhood is dominated by large, single-function government offices. The developers have tried to create the prototype for a future, more diverse streetscape by including a chapel, internet cafe, hairdresser and podiatrist along the public street, while a generously proportioned and secure entry point leads directly into the internal street. Again, the emphasis here is
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on safe connections and a sense of community; the aim being to build not an institution, but to lay the foundations for a socially sustainable ‘‘village’’. BC Department of Housing: (08) 9222 4666, www.housing.wa.gov.au Formworks Architecture: (08) 9335 5220, www.formworks.com.au St Bartholomew’s House: (08) 9325 5100, www.stbarts.org.au The Northerly Group: (08) 9442 3888, www.northerly.com.au
PROJECT SUMMARY Value: $35 million Residential units : 148 (54 x 1-bed units / 12 x 1-bed crisis units / 42 x transitional ‘lodging house’ beds for homeless men / 40-bed aged care facility)
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