COM: Adelaide Showgrounds Redevelopment | $35m

[Wayno]

The story says the Mad Mouse was demolished, and then goes on to say it was sold to the Newcastle show.

Am I missing something? I would have thought demolition was more likely than a move..the Mad Mouse always looked so questionable, to me

apparently the Mad Mouse sold for the bargain price of $150,000. One of the carriages is being kept in a Showgrounds museum, and another is being donated for auction to raise funds for athletes to go to Beijing.

[Queen Anne]

Wow, thanks Wayno. Interesting after-life for the old Mad Mouse, then!

[Norman]

The story says the Mad Mouse was demolished, and then goes on to say it was sold to the Newcastle show.

Am I missing something? I would have thought demolition was more likely than a move..the Mad Mouse always looked so questionable, to me

the risk of death was always an attraction with the Mad Mouse! i'm almost jealous of Newcastle

Don't be. Newcastle is a shithole (and, yes, I have been there, so I know what I'm talking about).

[Xaragmata]

Lots of activity on site yesterday, & exhibition hall coming along well.
Some pics at http://www.xaragmata.thebbs.org/album/a ... ll-01.html

[Norman]

Thanks for the pics Xaragmata!

[ReallyBad]

Wayville is looking very modern now, and once this is done hopefully we can get some high quality exhibitions - bigger and better Car Show comes to mind - possibly a big IT exhibition as well would be good. I think this hall will make it possible to do this now.

Great pics BTW.

[monotonehell]

Wayville is looking very modern now...

Ironically architecturally speaking, the old Duncan Hall is in the Modern style, while the new design will be post-modern. It's funny how the word "modern" doesn't mean contemporary in design terms but has come to mean it in the vernacular.

[rhino]

Wayville is looking very modern now...

Ironically architecturally speaking, the old Duncan Hall is in the Modern style, while the new design will be post-modern. It's funny how the word "modern" doesn't mean contemporary in design terms but has come to mean it in the vernacular.

So when will contemporary design have gone beyond futuristic?

[monotonehell]

Wayville is looking very modern now...

Ironically architecturally speaking, the old Duncan Hall is in the Modern style, while the new design will be post-modern. It's funny how the word "modern" doesn't mean contemporary in design terms but has come to mean it in the vernacular.

So when will contemporary design have gone beyond futuristic?

Contemporary just means "of now". So what's contemporary this year is history the next.

What's futuristic? Nothing. Any design that's considered futuristic is rooted in the now. So in a few years time what looked futuristic now will look lame then. Take for example what people thought looked futuristic in the 1950s, now it just looks like a joke. Even short term ideas of the future are ephemeral. Look at what we thought was futuristic in 2002, see much brushed aluminium and blue LEDs these days?

The only design school to have survived for many years that still looks contemporary today is some aspects of Bauhaus. Simple lines and using materials' inherent properties still are the foundations of many designs.

[rhino]

Thank you Mono. My comment was made tongue-in-cheek because contemporary design is considered post-modern, and modern design is now considered old. Logically, then, when post-modern design is considered old, futuristic design could be contemporary. Or perhaps it will be called Late Post-Modern.

[monotonehell]

Thank you Mono. My comment was made tongue-in-cheek because contemporary design is considered post-modern, and modern design is now considered old. Logically, then, when post-modern design is considered old, futuristic design could be contemporary. Or perhaps it will be called Late Post-Modern.

*Head 'splodes!*

I had an idea you were being sarcastic, but had to take your post at face value

Actually ... *takes deep breath* we're way past post-modern, or even post-post-modern, with contemporary design being a synthesis of the post-modern playful aesthetic coupled with the neo-realist zeitgeist through the filter of post '90's recession functionality mindset. *wheeze*

Which all adds up to a tonne of :wank:

[AtD]

That post summarises why I dropped out of architecture.

[Omicron]

Ironically architecturally speaking, the old Duncan Hall is in the Modern style, while the new design will be post-modern. It's funny how the word "modern" doesn't mean contemporary in design terms but has come to mean it in the vernacular.

So when will contemporary design have gone beyond futuristic?

Contemporary just means "of now". So what's contemporary this year is history the next.

What's futuristic? Nothing. Any design that's considered futuristic is rooted in the now. So in a few years time what looked futuristic now will look lame then. Take for example what people thought looked futuristic in the 1950s, now it just looks like a joke. Even short term ideas of the future are ephemeral. Look at what we thought was futuristic in 2002, see much brushed aluminium and blue LEDs these days?

The only design school to have survived for many years that still looks contemporary today is some aspects of Bauhaus. Simple lines and using materials' inherent properties still are the foundations of many designs.

Googie architecture is fantastic!

[monotonehell]

Googie architecture is fantastic!

Meet George Jetson.
His boy Elroy.
Daughter, Judy.
Jane, his wife...

[Omicron]

Googie architecture is fantastic!

Meet George Jetson.
His boy Elroy.
Daughter, Judy.
Jane, his wife...

A most enjoyable show.