How is it that other cities are able to have and other developers & architects are able to create tall buildings clad entirely in glass, but we can't do that here? Isn't the Adelaide City Council notorious for keeping Adelaide in the 70's? Here in Melbourne we have the opposite problem, we are ...

Jan:

Architecture by Chris Kirby, on Flickr

Adelaide Laneway by clinkey70, on Flickr

One Adelaide by clinkey70, on Flickr


One Adelaide by clinkey70, on Flickr

Realm by clinkey70, on Flickr

Adelaide / Аделаида by Dmitrii Loktionov, on Flickr

Adelaide / Аделаида by Dmitrii Loktionov, on Flickr

In town by clinkey70, on Flickr

citywatcher wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:49 am

I think it's the fact of the materials and method used
Could have been better

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No, I really like this. It's sleek and understated.

Here’s the trick. Get rid of the dam car park. It’s ugly, we have enough and it’s prime land for something much better. I will always have a vendetta against carparks, given one replaced this beauty on Rundle/Pulteney Street: https://live.staticflickr.com/8404/8644410588_5c85ecf647_b.jpg and we wer...

What is wrong with this city and it’s lack of trees! Stefan, have you heard of the book The Australian Ugliness ? Published in the late 1960s, it is a critique of Australian design/architecture and in it, the author discusses the strange Australian phobia of trees. He calls Aussie's "arborphob...

Alyx wrote:I have always liked the design of this building, but I loathe the dull brown cladding they chose. It could have been a true landmark if finished similarly to this, for example, or even this.

Agreed. Shocking colour!