The Bow (Arrow phase II) | 15 fl | Completed

[westwardloo]

God Auburn builds the WORST stuff (next to Drewlo)

Drewlo I don't mind. They're not building luxury housing, and the rent prices are affordable to a large portion of the population. Good design costs money, and I'm glad people are getting housed.

Auburn charges premium prices for crap. It's nothing but lack of effort.

Although I agree it is good that drewlo builds lower rental units. I have to disagree, Good design does not cost an extraordinary amount of money.  I would argue some of dewlos designs are actually going to cost them more money in the long run. Cheap windows, cheap exterior cladding. Both will need to be replace/repaired much earlier into the life cycle of the building. Walls that turn in and out all over their buildings or changing material randomly. These material transitions and corner details create an increased risk of air and water leakage which can cause extreme costs later on in the buildings life. There are plenty of examples of well designed low cost housing all over this country. Unfortunately London and waterloo developers have not figured it out. A building can be low cost with a simple sleak design using a material that is not baige stucco or baige precast. The biggest cost savings right now for them is they just reuse/modify existing architectural plans from other projects.