Vision: Light Square Tower - 100f / 500m

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Vision: Light Square Tower - 100f / 500m

#1 Post by Shuz » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:31 am

Thanks to Al - apparently a Vision of a 100f, 500m tower concept for Adelaide was submitted to the Premier by an Adelaide architect.
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Small image, but its all I could find on this building. Howie has also rendered an excellent model of this proposal which can be viewed in Google Earth.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ ... b3bb6d2d66
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#2 Post by Paulns » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:50 am

That'll be the day when they build this!!!!! But it looks good! :D
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#3 Post by Howie » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:30 am

momentkiller wrote:Thanks to Howie - apparently a Vision of a 100f, 500m tower concept for Adelaide was submitted to the Premier by an Adelaide architect.
Thanks to Al actually.

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Re: Vision: Light Square Tower - 100f / 500m

#4 Post by Cruise » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:11 pm

Is it a cold day in hell yet?

edit: what a lame post to waste my 500th on......

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#5 Post by aussie2000 » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:45 pm

lol soooooooooooo should we just ignore this one?

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#6 Post by Ben » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:48 pm

In comparison to Westpac it looks a lot taller than 500m. Westpac = 135m so 4 Westpacs @ 135m = 540m and it looks more like 5 or 6 Westpacs. Enough Maths for 1 day :shock:

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#7 Post by aussie2000 » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:02 pm

your right it looks more like the size of the dubai tower (burj whatever lol)

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#8 Post by skyliner » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:33 pm

Stunning, but out of place due to the geometric aesthetics as yet! lol. Can't believe it got to an architect and the premier. Nevertheless, vision is what we need.

They tried something like this in Brisbane a couple of years ago - one objection was that it would sink in the river soil as the foundations would have to go below the river surface level, and hence the water table.

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#9 Post by crawf » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:38 pm

lol that will be the day, when that baby is built in our very dense and taller city :D

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#10 Post by Howie » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:45 pm

Those who aren't in the know this has been floating around since early this year. And word has it that it reached the premier's office. Not sure if this or a scaled down version was meant to be a serious proposal, but as you can see it uses the balfours site, which has been spoken with the towers going up there.

Perhaps a scaled down 200m version somewhere on the west or south side of the cbd is appropriate?

Also does anyone have any information about that Victoria Square tower vision?

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#11 Post by talrok » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:20 pm

I would love to see some kind of monument/tower at say Vic Square .. I've said it before, we could have a larger scale version of the silver balls (perched on top of a tower) with an observation deck with 360 degree views .. something similar to the tower in Shanghai with the two spheres .. make it say 60 or so metres high .. that is very uniquely South Australian.

.. not sure if it could be silver though as the glare from the sun may harm old age pensioners (or ACC members) retiners!

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#12 Post by jk1237 » Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:59 pm

It will need a very, very big detour sign almost near the top, so that the planes dont slam into it :lol:

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Re: Vision: Light Square Tower - 100f / 500m

#13 Post by Pistol » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:55 pm

Ugh, can't we come up with some serious proposals for talls? Maybe we should look at something around the 200m mark before we look at 500m!!! Standing out like dogs balls comes to mind...
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#14 Post by Paulns » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:25 am

Geeze I'd be happy if they even considered anything 200m high!!!!!! :D
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#15 Post by duke » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:43 am

*starts drooling*

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