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#421 Post by Ho Really » Sat May 31, 2008 10:52 am

SRW wrote:It's so sleek! I'm really keen to see how the glass curtain will turn out. Will it start going up in June, perhaps?
The fritted veil should be finished on June 18th., delays permitted of course.

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#422 Post by skyliner » Sat May 31, 2008 11:17 am

wilkiebarkid wrote:Photo from Angas Street yesterday

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Very sleek from this angle as well. A well designed building and suitably so for VSQ :D Have not seen it from the east.

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#423 Post by Pikey » Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:57 am

Ho Really wrote:
SRW wrote:It's so sleek! I'm really keen to see how the glass curtain will turn out. Will it start going up in June, perhaps?
The fritted veil should be finished on June 18th., delays permitted of course.

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So no curtain wall of glass?

If it's a series of "louvers" it could dead set ruin this tower.
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#424 Post by UrbanSG » Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:40 am

As far as I know it is still going to be glass. The latest renders still show glass. If it is louvers it would definately wreck the building. The frame currently under construction looks as though it is designed for glass attachments.

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#425 Post by Ho Really » Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:53 am

Pikey wrote:
Ho Really wrote:
SRW wrote:It's so sleek! I'm really keen to see how the glass curtain will turn out. Will it start going up in June, perhaps?
The fritted veil should be finished on June 18th., delays permitted of course.

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So no curtain wall of glass?

If it's a series of "louvers" it could dead set ruin this tower.
No, it's a fritted glass veil.

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#426 Post by Ho Really » Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:54 am

UrbanSG wrote:As far as I know it is still going to be glass. The latest renders still show glass. If it is louvers it would definately wreck the building. The frame currently under construction looks as though it is designed for glass attachments.
Don't worry it's glass.

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#427 Post by Omicron » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:28 am

Ho Really wrote:
Pikey wrote:
Ho Really wrote:
The fritted veil should be finished on June 18th., delays permitted of course.

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So no curtain wall of glass?

If it's a series of "louvers" it could dead set ruin this tower.
No, it's a fritted glass veil.

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That sounds like something dubious I could order from my local fish and chip shop.

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#428 Post by Adelarch » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:46 am

Fritted glass is just a type of patterned glass - its quite common in modern architecture, particularly the sleek, sophisticated variety!
I don't suspect theres too much to worry about :)

Saw this building in person yesterday for the first time in a number of months - looking greee-ate

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#429 Post by Pikey » Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:27 am

So, Fritted Glass is what was used on the new Advertiser Building? I mean the second layer of glazing with the letters?
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#430 Post by UrbanSG » Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:50 am

It is sort of similar to that.

Some of the renders for this project did indicate a sort of patchwork glass effect. Other just showed the same tone glass over the western elevation. The fritted patchwork effect could look amazing on this building if they use the right shades and colour glass.

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#431 Post by Adelarch » Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:20 pm

yeah pikes I'm not sure the the advertiser lettering was technically fritted but same sort of thing. There's some images on google but cant work out how to use this damn computer to paste into my message lol

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#432 Post by wilkiebarkid » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:20 pm

Pics from today

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#433 Post by Pikey » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:23 pm

Gee they're not mucking around!

Thanks for all of your pics today!
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#434 Post by Shuz » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:46 pm

The glass curtain thats being installed at the moment protrudes a lot farther out than I initially thought it would. In all honestly, I quite liked it before, but time will only tell to see how this one turns out. And I hope it turns out for the better.

When I was in town the other day, I noticed the scaffolding on St. Xavier's coming down already?

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#435 Post by Ho Really » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:13 pm

Shuz wrote:The glass curtain thats being installed at the moment protrudes a lot farther out than I initially thought it would. In all honestly, I quite liked it before, but time will only tell to see how this one turns out. And I hope it turns out for the better...
Don't always go by what you see in renderings. Between the veil and the building there has to be enough room for the maintenance people to clean the glass on each side (windows and veil) via permanent catwalks.

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