In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we talk about the proposal to introduce architectural pattern books in NSW.
Will they mean even more cookie-cutter apartment blocks or will  it simply result in the buildings that we need in a hurry not looking like they were designed in a primary school handicrafts project?

Then we look at what has happened at an apartment block that was only a few years ago named as the best residential building in the world.

Falling planter boxes and rising concern about flammable cladding have blotted the Central Park tower’s copybook.  Now the truly iconic building in Broadway, Sydney, has to work through these issues with multiple strata committees each having their say.  Wish them luck.

Next we pick up on perennial parking problems and some innovative (and only slightly illegal) methods for dealing with rogue parkers (aka parking thieves).

Parking illegally in a multi-storey car park is wrong on so many levels. (Joke Stolen from Tim Vine).

And finally, our Lock Up and Leave Pick of the Trips takes us on a small group tour to the Land of the Rising Sun. 

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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai; Transcription tidied up and sensified by Raphie.
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