Rafii Architects designed the Donovan, completed in 2009 on Richards Street, and added some really different balconies. These sort of details can significantly reduce the energy efficiency of the building – the ‘thermal bridging’ can transfer the cold of the slab into the apartments, but they certainly make a change from earlier projects in the area.
Like other Downtown South schemes, this site is under a viewcone, so it’s a shorter and slightly wider tower. It replaced some two and three storey commercial and warehouse buldings – none of them of any great age or beauty.
Before images 2006; after images 2009