![]() Admittedly the wide and deep blocks (formerly occupied by light industrial and manufacturing uses) do offer high-street-type pedestrian access, but they are also penetrated by extensive networks of bitumen driveways. The original placemaking literature described James Street as a precinct of “high street” effects. The two sites are only loosely conjoined and informally connected but are still close enough to create a large assemblage of building that is fully bounded by open space – on two sides by busy James and McLachlan Streets, and on two sides by the open car park shared with buildings deeper inside the urban block. ![]() Notable also is that 19 James has been co-developed with the adjacent 15 James (designed by another architect). ![]() The south-eastern corner hooks passing foot traffic into the block.
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