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- Fri May 18, 2012 10:35 am
- Forum: Visions & Suggestions
- Topic: Vision : Adelaide As Next IT Hub
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10080
Re: Vision : Adelaide As Next IT Hub
The Innovyz program is hugely exciting. The quality of people that they are getting involved as mentors and support for the companies that will be coming over is genuinely astonishing: from senior people at companies like Microsoft, representatives of venture capital firms, to CEOs, CFOs, and founde...
- Wed May 16, 2012 9:51 am
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: [COM] Victoria Square Upgrade - $24m
- Replies: 1661
- Views: 410218
[COM] Re: PRO: Victoria Square Upgrade
Is this essentially the same masterplan from 18 or so months ago? Wayno , the one that you and I went to the public meeting about? If so, people shouldn't underestimate how much work and thought the designers had put in to try to solve the problem of on the one hand improving access by foot to a pub...
- Tue May 15, 2012 8:04 am
- Forum: The Pub
- Topic: Only in Adelaide? Hardly!
- Replies: 74
- Views: 68042
Re: Only in Adelaide? Hardly!
It's a story we're all too familiar with - a property owner seeking permission to build on their own land has been blocked for more than 30 years by complaining neighbours. But while that may sound like a very Adelaide story, the names in this one are rather more famous the likes of Con Makris or An...
- Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Development Discussions
- Topic: News & Discussion: Planning & Building Regulations
- Replies: 147
- Views: 92656
Just how big, or small, could a house be?
With the debates about whether or not apartments of size X are big enough to be acceptable as student accomodation, or whether they're dog boxes that will be future slums etc etc, I noticed this article from Vancouver: Could you squeeze into a tiny home? SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Imagine living in a tiny h...
- Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:44 pm
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: CBD Carparks
- Replies: 69
- Views: 19617
Re: City Street Parking
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, A Meter So Expensive, It Creates Parking Spots SAN FRANCISCO — The maddening quest for street parking is not just a tribulation for drivers, but a trial for cities. As much as a third of the traffic in some areas has been attributed to drivers circling as they hunt for s...
- Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:30 pm
- Forum: Beyond South Australia
- Topic: Portland, home of the TOD
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17172
Re: Portland, home of the TOD
A different take on Portland's changing development patterns: Is Portland Becoming A Bedroom Community For Its Suburbs? . The tl;dr version - Portland has been successful at bringing residential development back to the downtown areas, but major employers remain rooted in the office parks of the subu...
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:53 pm
- Forum: The Pub
- Topic: Continuing influence of the SDA union on SA politics.
- Replies: 81
- Views: 28779
Re: Continuing influence of the SDA union on SA politics.
What I don't follow about this analysis is: if the SDA is running the show, why does Mike Rann get to thumb his nose at them and set his own timetable to leave office? Other than Mike Rann, who could possibly benefit from making Jay Weatherill look like a sidelined minor player, or like a younger br...
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:36 pm
- Forum: The Pub
- Topic: Dark goings-on in Canberra
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5154
Re: Dark goings-on in Canberra
Well, I trust we were all watching Media Watch this evening. Propagating stories that even Andrew Bolt has to step away from on legal advice doesn't do you any credit SJ.
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:54 pm
- Forum: Beyond South Australia
- Topic: "Social Life of Small Urban Places"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3869
Re: "Social Life of Small Urban Places"
BTW, the narrator (William Whyte) is the spiritual father of the Project for Public Spaces. I've had the chance to read his book City: rediscovering the center, which was both full of solid factual research and written in an egaging manner, much like the narration he gives in this short film.
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:59 pm
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: [COM] Adelaide Oval Redevelopment
- Replies: 4475
- Views: 1037018
[COM] Re: Adelaide Oval Redevelopment Thread - Now Includes Poll!
<picture of rainy oval> Enough said. Adelaide Oval currently has very poor cover for spectators compared to other stadiums. That's not really an adequate explanation. I was at the game, sitting in the well attended Chappell stands. Directly opposite us was the half empty western stand - the north-m...
- Tue May 24, 2011 10:23 am
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: CBD Retail
- Replies: 3939
- Views: 1115376
Re: New Retail in the CBD
We heard that this was happening a while ago, but it actually happened rather quietly - Giant Bicycles have opened a flagship store , their first in Australia, in Hindmarsh Square. GLOBAL bicycle maker and retailer Giant Bicycles has opened its first Australian store - in Adelaide. Located on the gr...
- Mon May 23, 2011 1:28 pm
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: [COM] Adelaide Convention Centre - Stage 3 | $350m
- Replies: 1462
- Views: 499450
[COM] Re: Adelaide Convention Centre, Casino & Riverbank Developme
SkyCity's president of international business, Ejaaz Dean, said the $250 million casino redevelopment would include a boutique hotel component to avoid "leakage" of spending by its valued international high rollers. That is to say, they don't want money going to any other business in the ...
- Mon May 23, 2011 10:47 am
- Forum: Events in South Australia
- Topic: Flux 2011 - Aus & NZ student architecture congress
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4772
Flux 2011 - Aus & NZ student architecture congress
From the 6th to the 9th of July, the Uni of Adelaide and Uni SA are hosting an architecture student congress. A number of speakers will be coming, but sadly it doesn't seem to include any public program.
http://www.flux2011.com/
http://www.flux2011.com/
- Mon May 23, 2011 10:20 am
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Low/Mid-Rise CBD Development
- Replies: 1932
- Views: 739847
Re: CBD Development: Low/Mid-Rise
The Whitmore Square affordable eco-housing project has a 6-page write-up in the current issue of Architecture Australia. The author (Rachel Hurst from UniSA's architecture school) spends quite a bit of time discussing it in terms of Le Corbussier's Unité d'Habitation , both how it reflects and diffe...
- Wed May 18, 2011 2:41 pm
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: [COM] Adelaide Oval Redevelopment
- Replies: 4475
- Views: 1037018
[COM] Re: Adelaide Oval Redevelopment Thread - Now Includes Poll!
wowza! is that really $1200 per resident. With our population of 23 million people that equates to $2.76b dollars! I'd like to see a detailed breakdown of those numbers. I bet it's something like 20% of our population are responsible for 80% of losses. "net spending in the country’s legal form...