#apartment developments

Another shocker under construction. Little boxes almost complete and set to be sold off to real estate speculators. Don't fancy those west facing balconies in the hot summer sun. Directly overlooks a busy intersection with nine lanes of traffic. Canterbury.

A pair of Edwardian-style buildings, one with a surviving shop-top flat bay window typical of the start of the 20th century, with an apartment block development tucked in behind the old facade. Now a left-wing ALP politician's office. Marrickville.

Little boxes. Apartment development completed about 18 months ago on formerly contaminated, then remediated, industrial land with magnificent views of Sydney's most polluted waterway, the Cooks River. Mainly sold off-the-plan to real estate speculators, and remains largely vacant. And it's not looking any better with age. Canterbury.

Late art deco entrance to the 'Western Lounge', Petersham Inn Hotel (1940). Ladies were permitted in the lounge bar but prohibited from the front bar until the mid-1960's. The pub still trades, but this portal is now used as the lobby for some of the 96 apartments that were built on the hotel car park in 2001. Petersham.

What can only be described as a very ordinary new low-rise apartment development, replacing perfectly good inter-war period "soldier-settler" housing. Even with two years of no immigration and greater Sydney short of about 100,000 immigrants, the price of land continues to skyrocket in the Inner West against all expectations, creating a multitude of difficulties. Canterbury.

And they all live in little boxes...er...no they don't. Recently completed apartment development on reclaimed ex-contaminated industrial land. Mainly sold off the plan to real estate speculators, and largely vacant after 18 months. Directly overlooks the four tracks of the Sydenham-Bankstown Railway. Canterbury.

Part of a new apartment complex next to a small inter-war period worker's cottage. Dozens of these kinds of houses, warehousing and light industry were demolished to make way for the development, which covers two entire urban blocks. Population pressure. Lewisham.

New apartment developments on land formerly occupied by light industry, with    1920's-30's factories and warehousing and some late 19th century terrace houses demolished to make way for these little boxes. Lewisham.