melbourne street
by: tridente architects
in: north adelaide, australia

It seems to be an unfortunate norm that when a designer/developer/owner builds a new multi-story commercial building in 100+ year old one-story residential neighborhood, someone is bound to get pissed.  We wonder if Tridente Architects saw that coming, as their response to the problem seems both thoughtful and elegant.  The three story building (1st floor parking, 2nd/3rd floor commercial) has a glazed public facade wrapped by a large wood screen.  The light colors and translucency create a porous structure that otherwise might have read as a bulky mass.  Remarkably, to us, the yellow door sticks out more than the screen. We just hope the neighbors welcomed the project with the same admiration.

Posted at 3:27pm and tagged with: enclosure, commercial, architecture, design, tridente architects, australia, wood, screen, yellow door,.