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As said previously, it's a shame the glass cut back on the upper south levels couldn't be replicated on the northern side. Still, it's a
nice addition to our skyline.

monotonehell wrote:

timtam20292 wrote:The elevator infront of the building that the workers have been using has been coming down.

It goes up and down, it's an elevator.

Very funny better choice of words would be that the allymac has been dismantled and brought down to level 9 of the building. So it'll probably be gone at the end of the week?

timtam20292 wrote:

monotonehell wrote:

timtam20292 wrote:The elevator infront of the building that the workers have been using has been coming down.

It goes up and down, it's an elevator.

Very funny better choice of words would be that the elevator haa been dismantled and brought down to level 9 of the building. So it'll probably be gone at the end of the week?

The name for it on site would be allymac

Thanks for that RiseHigh

Alimak is the company that does most of the construction and industrial lifts around Australia.

Went past today and both exterior elevators have been fully dismantled.

Work is now underway to complete the installation of the remaining front windows now that the exterior elevator has been removed.

Picture from today. The southern face looks a tad disappointing to be honest. It has that glass chamfer, but other than that it's way too bare and probably won't be built out of view from Victoria Square for a few more decades, until that Adam Internet(?) building is torn down, and even then something fairly tall will have to replace it to cover this one out.



One positive is that it pops up over that ~70-75m high wall of buildings when the skyline is viewed from the east.

Also my third anniversary on this site since I posted a crappy picture of 379 KWS. Yay.

Unfortunately the Adam internet building next door is strata titled (each floor owned by separate owners). So this could be as good as it gets.

Noticed a white structure is now on the front of the building, not sure what it is. Also they are working on the shelter (bit that sticks out over footpath).

slenderman wrote:The southern face looks a tad disappointing to be honest.

What did you expect? The renders clearly showed blank northern and southern walls.

Patrick_27 wrote:

slenderman wrote:The southern face looks a tad disappointing to be honest.

What did you expect? The renders clearly showed blank northern and southern walls.

You're pretty snarky, aren't you, Patrick?

Yes, I know it was a pretty silly comment in hindsight, but the point is that now it actually exists outside a computer screen and the reality is we're stuck with a, big, largely blank wall fronting Victoria Square for who knows how long. Clearly they could have made that wall much less ugly by giving it more glass than just the chamfer, but they decided not to, and whoever is supposed to approve this didn't consider these things/didn't care.

Can only hope it sets a precedent and maybe it's more likely to be considered in future developments before approval, but I won't hold my breath since most buildings with this problem are approved anyway. I look forward to complaining about this with Urbanest next.

But beggars can't be choosers, hey?

It won't be considered in future development assessments because there's no criteria in the development plan (against which these proposals are assessed) to have set back or attractively designed boundary walls. Currently, the only potential for them to be formally critiqued is in the pre-lodgement design review, but as I understand it, that's a process with no binding powers.

I feel it's time that changed.

slenderman wrote:...we're stuck with a, big, largely blank wall fronting Victoria Square for who knows how long...

Are you referring to the tri-coloured, windowed wall with top glass chamfer as "largely blank"?

I don't dislike it as much as I thought I would. With the potential PO development in the works and more glass towers going up around this, it could grow to be a nice simple addition to our skyline.