[ City Central ] Masterplan Thread

[Wayno]

http://buildinglist.photoadelaide.com/Map.html?maploc=3

If you switch to satellite view, the allotment for Spire is obvious.

I've said it before AtD, and it's worth saying again! i love your building list system - so cool!

[Ho Really]

http://buildinglist.photoadelaide.com/Map.html?maploc=3

If you switch to satellite view, the allotment for Spire is obvious.

I've said it before AtD, and it's worth saying again! i love your building list system - so cool!

SUPERB!

Cheers

[omada]

Ditto! Well done ATD!

(This post also serves, in a gratuitous manner, in trying to get to 150 posts , kinda hard to do when I don't really have much to say.. no 4 paragraph posts about Victoria Park from me!)

[AtD]

Thanks guys. Feedback appreciated, as well as suggestions and corrections please...
... in the appropriate thread, of course.

[Norman]

Some photospam from the back of City Central!

[AtD]

If I get a transfer back to Adelaide, I'll be working in that building.

[jk1237]

I like your phots Norman The little square at the back (or in the middle) is quite interesting as its a great blend of the old and modern architecture

[Will]

Great photos Norman! Although the back of the GPO looks very derelict, there is a part of me that will lament its passing when it is finally demolished. The rear of the GPO retains a romanticised industrialist British look from the 1890s.

[Shuz]

Cheers Cruise for the referral -
Anyways, heres the site photos of where the GPO tower I think will be built?

And the site between the recently refurbished heritage building and the GPO fronting KWS. Wonder what's going here?

[omada]

Shuz wrote:And the site between the recently refurbished heritage building and the GPO fronting KWS. Wonder what's going here?

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere in the forums that this will be a plaza area for the Electra House development, with chairs, tables etc. Highly likely that i'm wrong tho, just don't go expecting a 40lvl tower tho

[Shuz]

Well, you're dead right about that. Here's the site plan.

The first photo I took encompasses the site of T4.

[UrbanSG]

The CCT3 (Electra House development - new glass section) is taking for ever, it should have been almost finished by now. It is becoming a real eyesore with the temporary fencing, graffiti and bare worksite area with no progress. In fact a fair part of King William Street is not looking too good lately with the boarded windows at the hotel development on the corner of King William Hindley (graffiti on them now too) and the vacant soon to be turned into hotel at 2 King William Street. Not great for one of our most important streets.

Anyway I have seen some pics of the CCT3 development before but this one looks more recent to me, from Aspen's City Central site, hurry up and build it:

[UrbanSG]

Well further to my post above some new signage has gone up in the Electra House windows (I think today) saying the Electra House development will be (I think it said) 'taking off' in April 2009. I am guessing this means opening in April 2009? Hopefully that is correct and construction commences soon not in April 2009. It shouldn't take that long to construct. It will really improve that area, currently it looks terrible adjacent Electra House.

[crawf]

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 82,00.html

8000 to live and work in the CBD
Article from: The Advertiser

KIM WHEATLEY

August 19, 2008 12:01am

OFFICE buildings, restaurants, hotels, bars, apartments and shops will make up the city's largest property development, estimated to cost up to $1 billion.

The first concept plans of Adelaide City Central have been released with the development expected to be finished by 2014.

As many as 8000 people will eventually work and live in the city block bounded by King William, Waymouth, Franklin and Bentham streets.

The Advertiser's $60 million headquarters in Waymouth St, Keith Murdoch House, is part of the precinct and received a four star green rating when it opened in October, 2005.

Towers A and B have been completed with the remainder of the development work in progress.

Aspen Group manager of major projects Bob Boorman said "it is a very exciting prospect, very challenging as a project but something that Adelaide will really sit up and take some notice of".

"You've got a community of green buildings, low energy buildings, things that are masterplanned, it is a great opportunity to get something completely different for Adelaide," he said.

H (or Tower is the controversial project that prompted the State Government to strip the Adelaide City Council of its powers to approve major projects.

That development is planned to eventually house workers from the GPO, which in turn will become a boutique hotel/residential complex with a hotel tower connecting at site G. The office towers of D and E will connect but also await the GPO move and are likely to be the last buildings to be constructed.

Building I was to be apartments on top of the heritage-listed Darling House but is now likely to be a boutique-style office space. Along with an internal plaza, there also are plans for laneway retail and restaurant developments.

Colliers leasing director Jon Cranna said: "We have long touted this be Adelaide's version of Southbank or another version of (Sydney's) Darling Park."

[UrbanSG]

There is a concept plan in today's paper. It is very conceptual. Tower E (office) looks to be a similar height to CC1, or slightly higher than CC1 and thinner. The rest are mainly low to mid-rise. Unfortunately I can't get a chance to scan it at the moment at work. Hopefully someone else can. Good to finally see a revision of the concept plan after a few years.