UPPER HOUSE JACKSON CLEMENTS BURROWS ARCHITECTS

摘要

As a model for multiple housing in the contemporary city, Upper House stands tall. Its program is innovative and well conceived: the strategy of creating a communal platform at the present council height limitation has benefited developer, user and the city. It allowed the council to re-evaluate its height policies, knowing that the community within the building was to benefit from this dedicated communal platform. It gave the city a new place from which to reflect on itself and its inherent grandeur, and it also allowed the developer to build an additional five levels on a reduced footprint, to a new considered height.