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The future of high-rise buildings is being shaped by new innovative technologies that will change the way skyscrapers are built.
From oxygen-producing facades, to farming in towers we look at four of the newest skyscraper technologies.
Man-Made Biological Leaf
A functioning man-made leaf that uses photosynthesis to absorb water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen, just like natural leaves, has been created by Royal College of Art graduate Julian Melchiorri.
The leaf could transform life on Earth; buildings could be clad with the material to oxygenate homes and polluted urban
areas.
New high-rise apartments in Melbourne would be subject to strict new building rules under guidelines being considered by Victoria’s state architect.
The Australian Institute of Architects’ Victorian president, Peter Malatt, said the tough new design standards were crucial if Melbourne was to avoid ”future slums” lining the city’s streets.
Among the mandated rules for developers proposed under the Office of the Victorian Government Architect’s draft Better Apartment Design guidelines would be minimum ceiling heights of 2.7 metres.
Prospective buyers have been locked in a frantic scramble for properties in Western Sydney as a new report confirmed that most of the country’s fastest selling properties are in the region.
Statistics from RP Data revealed that five out of the country’s 10 most popular housing markets are concentrated in Western Sydney, with a further two Sydney suburbs in other city regions making the list. The only other state to register a mention was WA with Coolbellup and Lynwood making the list.
The southern Gold Coast apartment market is about to get a boost with the limited release of luxury apartments in the $85 million Sanbano residential tower.
The Chinese-backed Marine Parade Holdings Pty Ltd is set to release to the 10 fully furnished, whole floor apartments.
The Sanbano apartments, at the corner of Marine Parade and Dutton Street in Coolangatta, are priced in excess of $2.7 million each.
Last weekend was the first real test for the winter auction market following the lull in activity during the Queen’s Birthday holiday break.
The metro Melbourne market produced a healthy auction clearance rate of 73.8 per cent despite the high listing numbers for June, well ahead of the 67.9 per cent recorded over the same weekend last year.
Melbourne achieved robust clearance rates even with unprecedented numbers of auctions conducted at this time of the year. Last weekend 856 homes went under the hammer which was well above the 777 auctioned over the same weekend a year ago.
Changes to section 100(1)(c) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 (NSW), which affects a tenant’s right to terminate a fixed-term agreement early without compensation to the landlord, are expected to commence on Friday, 4 July 2014.
Section 100(1)(c) of the Act currently allows the tenant to give a termination notice for a fixed-term agreement if the landlord has notified the tenant of their intention to sell the residential premises and did not disclose that proposed sale before entering into the residential tenancy agreement.
