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I thought they were going to be new generation LEDs? Or am I barking?Pants wrote:...Am looking forward to seeing them turned on. Hopefully they're not practically fluros as has been suggested, as I'll probably do another back-flip.
They look like LEDs, but I remember reading somewhere that they'll emit pretty stark white light. We'll soon see. Hopefully.monotonehell wrote:I thought they were going to be new generation LEDs? Or am I barking?Pants wrote:...Am looking forward to seeing them turned on. Hopefully they're not practically fluros as has been suggested, as I'll probably do another back-flip.
New generation LEDs put out nice light in all spectra. So they may well be.Pants wrote:They look like LEDs, but I remember reading somewhere that they'll emit pretty stark white light. We'll soon see. Hopefully.monotonehell wrote:I thought they were going to be new generation LEDs? Or am I barking?Pants wrote:...Am looking forward to seeing them turned on. Hopefully they're not practically fluros as has been suggested, as I'll probably do another back-flip.
Because the buildings' owners would not allow it.Patrick_27 wrote:What I noticed on the eastern end of the mall is that they've actually attached two steel frames atop of the podium at Citi Centre Arcade. I just can't understand why they couldn't have done this on the other ends of the mall too to avoid the Goddamn poles!
It was a combination of building owners not allowing it, and some where the facades were not strong enough. I'll leave it to everyone to speculate which ones apply to each pole location.monotonehell wrote:Because the buildings' owners would not allow it.Patrick_27 wrote:What I noticed on the eastern end of the mall is that they've actually attached two steel frames atop of the podium at Citi Centre Arcade. I just can't understand why they couldn't have done this on the other ends of the mall too to avoid the Goddamn poles!
How $500,000 is set to light up Adelaide’s Rundle Mall this Christmas
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Tim WilliamsThe CityThe City
GIANT presents, a 9m tall tree and thousands of “icicle” lights strung between buildings — yes, it will actually look a lot like Christmas in Rundle Mall this year.
The City can reveal the major features of the Rundle Mall Management Authority’s $500,000 lighting and decoration plan for the festive season.
A pair of walk-through presents, one at either end of the mall and each several metres tall, will be adorned with huge multi-coloured bows and covered in lights.
Artist impressions of the giant Christmas tree. Picture: Chas Clarkson and Rundle Mall Management Authority.
A huge, stylised Christmas tree, featuring a metal spiral of colours from the mall authority’s logo and topped with a yellow star, will be the centrepiece decoration in the middle of the Gawler Place intersection.
And the 14 crossover points in the mall’s new catenary street light system will be used to hang folded, coloured stars amid thousands of fairy lights in strings representing icicles.
The mall authority is spending big after copping heavy criticism last year for the lack of festive decorations and the use of an Australian theme that many shoppers didn’t identify with Christmas.
An artist’s impressions of a giant, lit-up Christmas tree set to help celebrate the festive season in the city. Picture supplied by Chas Clarkson and Rundle Mall Management Authority
Chief executive Ian Darbyshire said this year’s decorations would use traditional Christmas symbols such as trees and stars, with the modern twist of incorporating the colours of the Unfold Rundle Mall branding.
“It’s about starting to show what the new mall can do,” he said.
“The lights and decorations will be up for the Christmas Pageant … which is what people have been saying we should do for years.”
Mr Darbyshire said the giant presents would be the focus of Christmas-related activities which have yet to be revealed. Details of other decorations and the mall’s Christmas retail campaign will be unveiled in the coming weeks.
Someone please tell me why is it that every Christmas tree in an Australian city is always awfully tacky? Simplicity, people. It's always more.crawf wrote: