Second, many schemes of flats built since 1999 have included smaller-than-usual studio and one- and two-bedroom units aimed at landlord buyers who have assumed tenants would make do with small rooms.
Stirring up far more than a storm in a Royal Doulton teacup, Charles has been trying to get Rogers, now Lord Rogers of Riverside, removed from the job of designing a massive scheme of flats for the super-rich with social housing, by the London architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, attached.
A large set of experimental results confirms that the combination of directory-based and query-based schemes increases the scalability of flat architectures based on "pure" protocols, guarantees more stable performance and tends to reduce pathologically long response times.
The just-launched Parkway scheme of 147 flats (www.parkwaynewbury.com), with prices starting at about £250,000 for a two-bedroom apartment, launches in the autumn.
Such a situation has emerged at Mount Pleasant in north London, where the Royal Mail Group has proposed a fortress-like scheme of 700 flats, only 12% of which will be affordable.
On the site of the 1960s Shell Centre, a £1.2bn scheme of 900 flats has been proposed by Braeburn Estates – a conglomerate led by Canary Wharf Group and Qatari Diar, one backed by the Chinese state, the other by Qatar's royal family.
It's an integrated health centre, outpatient and diagnostics services and specialist rehabilitation care for elderly patients as well as a private sector extra care housing scheme of 50 flats.
But could the Y-Cube have lessons for volume housebuilding beyond the move-on sector? "We're already working on it," says Harbour, announcing that their designs for a 36-unit scheme of private flats for the Leather Gardens estate in Newham received planning permission only this week.
Where once huge cranes towered over the horizon, there is now a highrise hotel and the sprawling Glasgow Harbour scheme of luxury flats.
In the age of flat design and simpler color schemes (iOS 7 aside) Yahoo has now attached itself to market trend of simple design.
