VISION 37 — THE BLOCK 2016
What are your thoughts about the extreme clarity
of the new LightBridge™ double-glazing?
The technology is extraordinary in the double-glazing
we are putting in this building. People don’t even
realise it and that is a good thing. They are not asking
the question whether it is double-glazed because they
are perfectly comfortable. If someone can walk into a
room, not even notice it and walk back out again and
feel perfectly comfortable – job done. Really, they
don’t need to know that there is a fantastic new heat
gain co-efficient in the glass. They don’t really give a
rat’s bum. They don’t have to take all their clothing off
and they don’t have to put a lot of clothing on. Job
done. In the past you probably had a glass
product that may tint tile colours in the bathroom
where you are putting in a warm tile and that end’s
up a cool tile in appearance.
What are the standout qualities that give you
particular pleasure as you wander through
these apartments?
The standout qualities in a consistent sense for each
part of the building is how they have responded
to the light. We had to reuse all the windows on the
outside of the building because it is a heritage overlay.
Rather than stuck with that which could be presented
as a negative, where the floors chop into more than
just two apartments, you had to create to make the
right amount of money, you would have very
compromised window scenarios, perhaps even
dividing walls abutting windows. All these hideous
things of developments gone wrong.
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