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[monotonehell]

It's projects like these that confuzzle me. What stopped them from building 2 or 3 100m+ towers instead

Staging: You could build a large project (if you can get the finance). But you'd have it sit there under construction being a money pit.
orrrrr
You could build several smaller projects, one at a time and get a steady income.

Your choice...

[metro]

What stopped them from building 2 or 3 100m+ towers instead

The Adelaide City Council

but seriously what monotone said (remember the spire on betham) and our extreme air-safety rules, if you've seen how low planes like to fly over the CBD you would see why wespac is our tallest..need to get very strong demand here and redirect all flights by making the Adelaide CBD restricted airspace/no-fly-zone whatever it's called, then we might get some 200+m towers going up just like in Brizzy, Gold Coast, Sydney and Melb, could take a few years.

[ricecrackers]

dont see why we need huge towers when most of the CBD is still covered in single and 2 storey buildings and practically all of the suburbs are single storey.
there is still plenty of room available for < 20 level developments

[rev]

The Adelaide City Council

our extreme air-safety rules, if you've seen how low planes like to fly over the CBD you would see why wespac is our tallest..need to get very strong demand here and redirect all flights by making the Adelaide CBD restricted airspace/no-fly-zone whatever it's called

Thats crap and I wish people would stop spreading ACC nimby propaganda.

I've given examples before of airports that are closer to a CBD, with planes flying closer to buildings, then what in Adelaide. And the buildings are taller.
Then you have places like Hong Kong, which had an airport surrounded by high rise. Never stopped them building tall buildings.

But for some reason it seems our council is under the belief that if they allow tall buildings they will magically attract planes out of the sky onto them.

[cruel_world00]

Hey rev, I know it's the internet, but ever heard of tongue-in-cheek?

[spiller]

The Adelaide City Council

our extreme air-safety rules, if you've seen how low planes like to fly over the CBD you would see why wespac is our tallest..need to get very strong demand here and redirect all flights by making the Adelaide CBD restricted airspace/no-fly-zone whatever it's called

Thats crap and I wish people would stop spreading ACC nimby propaganda.

I've given examples before of airports that are closer to a CBD, with planes flying closer to buildings, then what in Adelaide. And the buildings are taller.
Then you have places like Hong Kong, which had an airport surrounded by high rise. Never stopped them building tall buildings.

But for some reason it seems our council is under the belief that if they allow tall buildings they will magically attract planes out of the sky onto them.

The planes do fly quite close, I will demonstrate by taking a photo from my window seat on the rex flight that I catch back into Adelaide this afternoon. I dont think the risk of crashing into buildings is the reason why the restrction apply however; something about radar interferences come to mind, but i'm no expert on the matter.

RE: tall buildings being built in other citys close to the airport (like Hong Kong) and not Adelaide, one must also compare the economic status of the two cities. Adelaide doesnt have the demand at the moment for multiple (or even one) 200m+ towers. When it does, I assure you, the height restrictions will not hold the city (or its skyline) back. Things are on the move in Adelaide slowly, but surely. A negative focus on absence gets no one anywhere.

[Ben]

"The Loft" is likely to be approved by the DAC on Thursday meeting after Urban Construct have addressed the DAC's original issues:

http://www.dac.sa.gov.au/index.cfm?objectid=C1142A03-F68D-11DF-8A6A000F2030D46A

[Just build it]

I want one of the undersize 48sq one beds with undersize balcony and concrete column obstructed car park space.

Sounds like a wonderfully 'urban' life.

[omada]

I want one of the undersize 48sq one beds with undersize balcony and concrete column obstructed car park space.

Sounds like a wonderfully 'urban' life.

This issue of small sqm living has come up in couple of threads of late. It is only in highly urbanised, or should I say "sub-urbanised" nations like Australia, US and Canada, that we have become fixated with owning a classic block of land, in Europe and in Asia, they have no problems living in small spaces. The difference being that their cities are more "active" than ours, ie public spaces, "community" etc. In our migration to the suburbs and the associated urban sprawl, our cities and indeed our society have lost the connections with space and community. If done properly, there is nothing wrong with living in one of these apartments. Disclaimer: I too live in one of these suburbs, with my block of land.

[Will]

I want one of the undersize 48sq one beds with undersize balcony and concrete column obstructed car park space.

Sounds like a wonderfully 'urban' life.

This issue of small sqm living has come up in couple of threads of late. It is only in highly urbanised, or should I say "sub-urbanised" nations like Australia, US and Canada, that we have become fixated with owning a classic block of land, in Europe and in Asia, they have no problems living in small spaces. The difference being that their cities are more "active" than ours, ie public spaces, "community" etc. In our migration to the suburbs and the associated urban sprawl, our cities and indeed our society have lost the connections with space and community. If done properly, there is nothing wrong with living in one of these apartments. Disclaimer: I too live in one of these suburbs, with my block of land.

But herein lies the problem. I too live in the suburbs in my detached house with a large backyard. I would love to live in the city, and would be happy to live without a backyard, but not too happy to live in something the size of my lounge room. Australians love to live in big houses, and I am sure the apartment market would boom if developers actually built apartments the average Australian would like to live in.

There is a space in the market for small apartments, however the market is not solely composed by Asian students.

[Waewick]

I wonder what the costs would be to build a whole tower of 100m2 apartments?

I would imagine it would be very very high

[Wayno]

I wonder what the costs would be to build a whole tower of 100m2 apartments?

I would imagine it would be very very high

probably less than building a similar tower of smaller apartments (potentially less plumbing for one thing). From an apartment purchase perspective the cost would probably be double that of a 2br apartment ($700k+)

[Waewick]

do you think the taller building heights being propsied would encourage more decent sized ones?

I would imagine it would be a benefit.

[skyliner]

As someone else recently said, cost/demand factors would control this - evidenced in other capitals as taller bldgs.

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CITY SKYLINE

[ghs]

If all 5 of these developments go ahead and the other building on 176-178 Mortphett sreet
goes ahead then we'll end up with a nice community of apartments....