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Re: #Official - Never Builts

#91 Post by Howie » Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:02 am

Awesome pics omicron, especially Capital City project. It'll help with my research on it, it seems no one knows anything about that one.

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#92 Post by [Shuz] » Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:05 am

Great finds!

Is it just me or do those side elevations of the Capital City project remind anyone of SimTower? :P
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#93 Post by Howie » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:13 pm

Just noticed the elevators on capital city run externally.... would've been a dizzying ride up - love it!

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#94 Post by Howie » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:14 pm

By the way, i'm told by city council that adelaide capital city was also known as tower of inspiration.

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#95 Post by crawf » Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:56 am

None of those photos are working for me :(

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#96 Post by omada » Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:15 pm

love this thread, very interesting. Imagine if Vic Square was redeveloped all those years ago, wonder if we would still be bagging it :o

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Re: News & Discussion: Never Builts

#97 Post by Stefan » Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:47 pm

A same that the Capital City building was never built :(

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#98 Post by Brucetiki » Wed May 08, 2013 1:10 pm

Wow - from Capital City to Adelaide Central Plaza. We could have had glamour and instead ended up with a box...

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#99 Post by Will » Sun Sep 29, 2013 3:07 pm

The 'Henry Ayers' Hotel, proposed back in 1998. It looks like it would have occupied the site where the Palais apartments were built.

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#100 Post by Nathan » Sun Sep 29, 2013 3:46 pm

Will wrote:The 'Henry Ayers' Hotel, proposed back in 1998. It looks like it would have occupied the site where the Palais apartments were built.
Not normally my style of architecture, but that looks much better than the rubbish they ended up building.

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#101 Post by stronic » Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:11 pm

Will wrote:Here is the next installation in the series of buildings which were built but which are vastly different to the original plans.

We are all aware of the new Port Lincoln Hotel by Woodhead International. It is a nice although safe design:

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However, talk of building such a hotel date back in the late 90's, and indeed the first proposal was for a $30 million, 7 level hotel which was to have 126 rooms, 130 carparks, convention facilities and restauratns. Although what was eventually developed has pretty much the same characteristics, the same cannot be said about the architecture.

This was the original design:

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The hotel, then known as the 'Peninsula Hotel' was by Giuliano Ursini. That design was actually approved by the port Lincoln City Council in 2001, and work was expected to have commenced in early 2003.
That's seriously hideous. I am sometimes concerned about architects and designers in Australia. They certainly do have some odd preoccupation with kitsch, ugly and tacky facades.

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Re: News & Discussion: Never Builts

#102 Post by citywatcher » Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:16 pm

Back in the 80s I recall a 25 level pyramid shaped building for the harris scarfe site which the council knocked back I think . That would have been sensational. Better than the rubbish they ended up building . Also in the 80s a 17 level green glass tower to replace the old westpac bank on the corner or north terrace and king william which I think also got knocked back. Two sensational ideas which the council stopped .

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Re: News & Discussion: Never Builts

#103 Post by Splashmo » Mon Oct 12, 2015 8:23 am

Well, well, I always assumed the subway idea on this forum was a wacky proposal but looks like it was attempted in the 1960s: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-12/e ... lt/6835034

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#104 Post by crawf » Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:04 pm

Fascinating.

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