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Architects: COX Architecture
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:Christopher Frederick Jones
![21 Peter Doherty Street / COX Architecture - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5adf/178c/f197/ccd9/a300/0ef7/medium_jpg/27265.jpg?1524569980)
Text description provided by the architects. The 21 Peter Doherty Street multi-residential project is part of the Boggo Rd Urban Village master planned precinct. It provides a total of 64 apartments over 5-storeys in a mixture of 1, 2 and 3-Bed options. Car spaces are wholly concealed within basements and it boasts a substantial private roof terrace with stunning views over the heritage listed gaol to the city skyline.
![21 Peter Doherty Street / COX Architecture - Stairs, Windows, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5adf/1735/f197/ccd9/a300/0ef5/medium_jpg/27263.jpg?1524569892)
The project aspires to create a sub-tropical language for this scale of residential typology which avoids the ‘double stacking’ of apartments around a stagnant internal circulatory corridor. The scale of the development has been broken down by dividing the mass into three separate ‘wings’, each served by external circulation.
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Each wing has been arranged carefully to create a sub-tropical courtyard space in the centre of the scheme, open to the sky and the prevailing breezes, thus providing a naturally lit and ventilated heart. The buildings step from five to four storeys in response to the steeply sloping topography of the site, maintaining a human scale.
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![21 Peter Doherty Street / COX Architecture - Windows, Courtyard](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5adf/1833/f197/ccd9/a300/0efb/medium_jpg/27273.jpg?1524570145)
Exterior cladding is a restrained and limited palette of simple materials including textured render, face brick base, glazed tiles, powder-coated aluminium and profiled metal used sparingly to accent and reinforce the various elements of the architectural expression.
![21 Peter Doherty Street / COX Architecture - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5adf/17b9/f197/ccd9/a300/0ef8/medium_jpg/27266.jpg?1524570024)