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I've just gone onto google maps and had a look at street level view, looking up at an 180m tower in melbourne

Its significantly more impressive then the Adelaidean, let me tell you. I suggest doing it too if you want to get an idea of the scale of our city's new second tallest!

Going to be a massive change for our skyline especially if we have two buildings of this scale going up.

Nathan wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 07, 2022 2:27 pm

I'm... whelmed? It's fine, but aside from the two recesses it's largely another extruded glass rectangle. The height is great, for sure, but otherwise I'm not seeing anything particularly special.

Given the hype surrounding this project, I was also expecting something other than the usual Adelaide 'glass box atop mish-mash podium' design.

Quite disappointing in that respect.

For what was such a hyped up project and its just a standard design.

Found these on Twitter, via @AussieWirraway:

Fairly pedestrian design, but not offensive in any way and will be fantastic to see how this changes the balance of the city skyline.

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Wed Sep 07, 2022 2:25 pm

A-Town wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 07, 2022 1:20 pm

Ben wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:23 am

SA 1 tower for approval at the next SCAP meeting.

Was originally planned at 67 level 227m

Looks great! Let's hope it gets approved with no issues.

Originally planned at a 67 level 227m building though - what happened? Was this deemed to be too tall for this part of the city because of flight paths?

Could there be engineering considerations relating to the size of the footprint, and how far above anything nearby it would be to alter the wind loading? I imagine that to resist more wind requires thicker columns or bracing all the way down.

No. The height is based on aviation regulations.

The design could be worse, but could definitely be better.

My main concern is how much space will be wasted on cars.

The SA1 Tower has no provision for affordable housing. The developer is planning to put car parking on levels 1 to 9, hotel rooms on levels 13 to 20, apartments on levels 22 to 50 and penthouses on levels 51 to 53.

Level 54-55 would consist of a “rooftop plant, services enclosures and lift overruns”. A “sky lounge” is also planned for level 11 of the tower.

ChillyPhilly wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 07, 2022 4:11 pm

The design could be worse, but could definitely be better.

My main concern is how much space will be wasted on cars.

The SA1 Tower has no provision for affordable housing. The developer is planning to put car parking on levels 1 to 9, hotel rooms on levels 13 to 20, apartments on levels 22 to 50 and penthouses on levels 51 to 53.

Level 54-55 would consist of a “rooftop plant, services enclosures and lift overruns”. A “sky lounge” is also planned for level 11 of the tower.

9 levels of parking sounds a lot, but it looks about a third of those levels are still occupied and decent chunk of the podium is activated.

The design of the tower itself, meh. It'll stick out like dogs balls tho

The fact it was initially intended to be even taller bodes well for future developments, means there is a lot of confidence that demand is there.

The lack of balconies or even opening windows (assuming the smooth render is accurate) seems a little odd for all those levels of apartments though.

It's OK from my perspective, but just that.

It's not offensive and the lack of exposed concrete floor plates between levels (unless it's dumbed down later) means at least it's less likely to end up looking drab and unfinished like the Crown Plaza building.

As others have suggested, the glazing will make or break it. If they use top quality glass then this and its height will hopefully compensate for the lack of design flair.

A real shame this isn’t the OG height but happy with what we have.

If the glazing and finishes are quality this will be quite pleasant and striking.

Here’s for more design innovation for future proposals.

I share in the sentiment(s) of being whelmed by this proposal; I don’t hate it, but it’s certainly not the idea of what was sold to us previously on this thread. In some ways it emulates the use of materials of Adelaidean, and the structural design of Yugo student accommodation, with the structural cavities on the lower half of the building and a straight tower above. If the finishes of this building are of a high quality, then this will serve as the Adelaidean that many hoped for but didn’t get.

Hold everything. That is one sexy sign

VinyTapestry849 wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 07, 2022 8:44 pm

Hold everything. That is one sexy sign

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