Background
The qualities that make concrete great - its durability, sustainability, fluidity and raw beauty – are demonstrated to the full on the President Avenue apartments. The result is what you now see - a building that is articulated deeply into its mass with vertical ‘grooves’, creating the impression of six separate, vertical concrete-framed blocks standing side-by-side. The scale and context is just right – neither overbearing or underwhelming.
The Challenge
The President Avenue project was nearly eight years in the making for architects Candalepas Associates and builder/developers Cuzeno, but the result has indeed been worthwhile.
Rather than replicate the existing design and create something massive and inappropriate to the site, architect Angelo Candalepas argued for just one additional level and a redesign.
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