Grandstand living
NOT BALCONIES, COVERED DECKS OR verandahs. Garden rooms. Call them what you will, they’re undoubtedly the distinctive feature of the 246 high-quality apartments spread over three multilevel blocks beside Greenlane West road, now home to some 700 residents. That and the fact that half of these rooms overlook the Alexandra Park horse-racing track, featuring floodlit weekly harness racing on Thursday or Friday evenings.
In this context, ‘garden room’ seems a misnomer. Trackside, the outside rooms feel like you’re in your own corporate box at a stadium, particularly so when the racecourse floodlights are on full. The large, covered balconies erupt in a frenzy of white patterning all over the three buildings’ façades. An array of screen designs – various combinations of fixed, white fritted glass panels and balustrades, and white perforated aluminium screens that slide and bifold – serve to
