I just read the good news! While I don't think Adelaide will see a new sky scraper that will beat the Westpack too soon it will stop all the hassle developers have been met with when their buildings are just a few metres too tall. I'm sure Adelaide will be flooded with a lot of medium height proposa...

Remarkable. It amazes me that they can have so much residential construction underway in and around the CBD. 65+ level apartment buildings and we cant seem to convince enough people to move into the city to fill a single medium-sized building, unless it's shared accomodation for international stude...

When I look at all these developments in Melbourne, all I think is good for them. But excited? No, I do not feel excited by them. Melbourne is not my home town, I feel nothing for it. So the concept of moving somewhere just to see more progress, even though it is meaningless to me as a South Austra...

Every now and then I come and visit the Sensational Adelaide website to see what's going down in Adelaide, it's been 4 years since I left for Melbourne. It seemed for a while that there were quite a few changes happening in Adelaide and I thought great, if one day I return to Adelaide it will be a a...

I never used public transport while in Adelaide, except when I had to get my car repaired and it was in the shed for a week. Put simply Adelaide is a breeze to drive around, and public transport doesn't have much benefits other than saving the planet and perhaps reducing your fuel bill. Anyhow takin...

After taking a visit to Adelaide last week I had a look at the lantern and it just doesn't seem bright enough or large enough. It was less exciting than I thought it would be. Hardly anyone was stopping to look at it, like no one could care to watch it. Adding sound should spruce it up a bit! Perhap...

Hoops wrote:I highly doubt the general public actually even analyzes ads.

you're 99% correct. We're like the 1%.

I'm a bit disappointed with the Optus one. It shows Adelaide... but then it zooms out from Sydney on the east coast! Damn them! :cry: I know! I noticed that too the first time I saw it on televeision. Bloody Sydneysiders trying to pass off our beautiful GPO clocktower as their own. Damn them all to...

As plain and flat the Wespac building is, with its slight angle facades actually makes it stand out more, it gives the skyline a slightly different looks to it. Not every building in Adelaide should have each of its corner facing only North-South-East-West, and is a trend I am seeing right now. Goo...

The Westpac tower is actually very nice inside, the lobby is amazing, and the elevators have like little tv screens in them, and its probably got the best view of the city, being the tallest. also just because something is from the 1980's (late 80's, completed in 1988, i think :?: ) doesn't make it...

Please build any tall buildings to obscure the hideous Westpac. It's like the awful reminder of how Adelaide got stuck in the 80's, and unfortunately we can't throw it in the tip like many people have thrown away all that horrible brown 80's Tupperware.

I'm a bit disappointed with the Optus one. It shows Adelaide... but then it zooms out from Sydney on the east coast! Damn them!

Just reading all these figures is making my eyes pop out.

only one word for this...

damn!

In those days when it was built it wasn't an eyesore. Designs change with the times.Cheers The unfortunate thing about the buildings in Adelaide is that they were built in an era where modern design wasn't so nice with modern engineering practices at the time. So a lot of the buildings are made of ...

Something like that arch is almost what i was thinking, but perhaps change it a bit so it forms some sort of spire from the arch?. I was almost thinking if it were possible to make it shimmer in smooth blue reflective glass (a colour like Melbourne's Rialto towers) and inside the glass have mounted ...