[COM] 374-400 King William Street | 47m | 11lvls | Office

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#796 Post by bm7500 » Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:17 pm

I think this building has turned out quite well.

It just needs a bit of street level activity and colour and this will make a fine addition to KWS :)
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#797 Post by Wayno » Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:41 pm

While differing from the renders, the finished product is impressive (and quite imposing too - in a good way). Definitely well positioned at the southern end of KWS too.

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#798 Post by Nathan » Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:25 pm

I think it would have been nice if the vertical supports could have been set further back, so that you don't see them from street level. Would have given a much more impressive impression that the glass box was floating above the lower levels. Annoyingly for me, it looks like it's going to finish as soon as I move away from the area (same goes for Edge/Wave) :(

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#799 Post by Mpol » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:18 pm

I like it. Nothing innovative but sleek. Something this side of the city needs.

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#800 Post by rubegoldbergdevice » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:33 pm

Yeah not bad this. The striped effect is a tad 80s but overall a good adition. It also helps a tiny bit with a sense of enclosure for Vic Square when seen from the northern end of that space.

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#801 Post by rhino » Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:24 am

One of my co-workers just commented that this looks like a shipping container sitting on a building :lol:
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#802 Post by Pants » Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:08 pm

I'm trying really hard to like this building. I don't dislike it and can't find too much wrong with it, but it's all a bit meh.

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#803 Post by Nathan » Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:34 pm

The eastern blank wall has now been half painted. Bye bye bare concrete (sniff) and hello dark grey. Still a missing glass panel on the eastern side (as well as the one on the King William St side)

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#804 Post by Adelarch » Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:02 pm

To me this building varies from a bit on the bland side to somewhat striking depending upon the time of day, viewing angle etc. In the evening the western facade often takes on a crystalline quality which can be quite impressive - not a great photo but you get the gist:

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#805 Post by Ho Really » Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:15 pm

I hope the ACC is going to replace the trees that have gone missing on King William Street. The facade there looks so bland. I don't hate this building but I think what could have made it better would have been the inclusion of some diagonal (zig-zag) indentations or lines from the top corners to the centre (entrance on KWS).

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#806 Post by skyliner » Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:52 am

Totally agree about the trees. Will be far more attractive to any alfresco activity as well. Colour from neons/adverts will break any bland element IMO - Ie like on SA Water BLDG.

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#807 Post by norwood » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:48 pm

ACC will replace the trees with semi matures... at the developers cost as usual... they just dont replace them in summer due to the heat, even though these tree are super hard wearing, they dont like being transfered from the plantations during the hotter months.

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#808 Post by Will » Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:34 am

From the top of the ATO Building:

Love the glass. This building reminds me of a cuboid iceberg floating above KWS.

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#809 Post by crawf » Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:15 pm

Love this building

Thanks for all your photos Will.

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#810 Post by AtD » Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:56 am

norwood wrote:ACC will replace the trees with semi matures... at the developers cost as usual... they just dont replace them in summer due to the heat, even though these tree are super hard wearing, they dont like being transfered from the plantations during the hotter months.
Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the info.

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