ONH: [Port Adelaide] Newport Quays | $1.2b

[Cruise]

One of the council's concerns i do believe is a real problem is a lot of the flats having bedrooms without windows. Now that is horible planning

[Just build it]

Have to agree with the 'no bedroom windows' design sounding like a pretty sh1tty idea. I'd hate it.

Even prison cells have a window, no?

[AtD]

Any plans to back up that claim?

[Norman]

:wank:

[Cruise]

That's almost as lame as wanting to keep a patch of grass at Adelaide Oval

[monotonehell]

That's almost as lame as wanting to keep a patch of grass at Adelaide Oval

Lamer - at least the patch of grass is aesthetically pleasing (when not covered in rolling drunk bogans). These sheds are possibly full of history, but not the kind you can preserve in a building. There might well be museum pieces in there, but pieces not a whole.

Identify the pieces, remove them to a nunnery.. or museum, and knock down these piles of rusty corrugated iron.

[Shuz]

I'd actually bet that theres some nutcase insane enough that if this gets heritage listing to actually torch the place.

[monotonehell]

I'd actually bet that theres some nutcase insane enough that if this gets heritage listing to actually torch the place.

Are you volunteering Shuzy?

[SRW]

As lacking in merit as these sheds might be, there is actually a fair point in amongst the shrill noises coming from the heritage proponents -- that the redevelopment as proposed is not addressing the character or history of the Port. And the disappointing thing is that it's hardly a difficult thing to do. It's just that cookie-cutter apartment stacks deliver more profit.

[Wayno]

As lacking in merit as these sheds might be, there is actually a fair point in amongst the shrill noises coming from the heritage proponents -- that the redevelopment as proposed is not addressing the character or history of the Port. And the disappointing thing is that it's hardly a difficult thing to do. It's just that cookie-cutter apartment stacks deliver more profit.

Sympathetic architecture - what a novel concept!

[frank1]

If it is so important to these nimby's why don't the gov. shift the sheds to another location in port adelaide. It's win win

[omada]

Frank1
If it is so important to these nimby's why don't the gov. shift the sheds to another location in port adelaide. It's win win

Shift the sheds? Then the sheds would lose historical context - and thus their entire purpose.

[Professor]

What a horrible tin shed... And that's heritage?

The Port has some terrific old buildings and streetscapes which have been preserved. That shed is not one of them.

In the olden days I worked on ships that were being constructed at the Adelaide Ship Construction, the big slipway around 300m west of this old tin shed. While I appreciate the local history, the new maritime construction area at Techport is much better and the old slipway area will be reborn as waterside living. That is balanced progress.

That crappy shed heritage claim is as pathetic as the one proposed by some dumb arse for keeping the old bakewell bridge as an example of 1050s architecture. Spare me.

Anyway, bring out the big Cat and drive through it. I will volunteer!

[aussie2000]

lol 1050, what a year!!

[AtD]

The Port has some terrific old buildings and streetscapes which have been preserved. That shed is not one of them.

Agreed. There are some great gems on the other side of the river that are sitting empty and rotting, neglected by the council and the heritage lobbyists. Focus your energy on those, some of the original structures in SA, not this horrid tin shed.