Can this thread please not derail into another bitch about livery? It's insignificant. But to the topic, I wish there was more information about what model has being chosen and where they will be constructed. I kind was hoping for a model that didn't have the 'corrugated panels' (as Ho Really put it...

West Lakes shoppers will pay to park ABC News Online , 15 November 2010 Boom gates will be installed on the car parks of West Lakes Mall shopping centre, in Adelaide's west. Charles Sturt Council has decided against fighting the plan in court. Based on legal advice, it concedes it would be unlikely...

The more I look at it the more I hate it. It's just a glass box on stilts. Same old upwards plot extension.

Why is Adelaide still copping buildings like this? The market is full of them -- surely by now there'd be enough incentive for developers to one-up the competition with some good design?

According to Clr Plumridge in his last newsletter, "Victoria Square plan is currently being documented in preparation for going to tender at about the middle of 2011." I'm curious what "being documented" actually means, and why it takes around a year. In any event, though I am pl...

BOOYAH!

Fabulous:

Howie wrote:

Hideous:

iTouch(myself) wrote:

iTouch, I hope you fired back another email asking whether they're mad. Appalling.

I must admit, though, that I'm disappointed with the brickwork - it's too perfect, even down to a lack of tonal variation in the colour, and lacks the character I imagine it was supposed to be adding. Still, most modern brickwork is like that. :secret: Sandstock bricks, Brighton-Lite mortar, and sh...

Omicron wrote:I shall award many points to the developer who buys the graceful but tired-looking mansion next door (Henry Ayres' summer residence, if memory serves) and restores it to some semblance of its former glory.

And then permits me to occupy it...

crawf wrote: Interesting times in the world of news, not sure if this new news format for Ten will be successful.

It may yet not go ahead, now that Packer and Murdoch are on the board.

Toxic soil found in Parklands The Advertiser , 6 November 2010 TOXIC soil has been found in Victoria Park and Adelaide City Council began digging it up yesterday. Hydrocarbons from 100-year-old street sweepings and asphalt were found in the soil and toxic sections will be removed to a depth of 20cm...

Thanks for the photo updates, Sidler!

Sorry Wayno and SRW, I don't understand the last two posts at all! Are they intended to be a joke? The Trafford Centre is most certainly an architectural masterpiece, and I am not an expert but I would bet that any architect or serious student of architecture would wholeheartedly agree. It's more l...

In that location, I'd hope it'd be retail, else I'd be worried about the developers' business sense.

Even still, it would be odd if were being fitted out before the actual building redevelopment is complete. Hopefully just preparatory work of another kind.

I'm as much a proponent for good design as the next guy, but I think we have to accept that if we want to see the city's population boom we're going to need a bunch more apartment towers and not all of them will be architectural superstars. So when a relatively inoffensive if not pleasing design lik...

Supposing it does get a few coats of (a lighter colour) paint, I actually like it a lot. It's completely changed the feel of Whitmore Sq -- once they're occupied it should feel a bunch safer too.