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Finally a City Central tower that will be blue glass, hopefully (largest blue glass scraper in Adelaide?)

I hate being a negative nelly, but this whole development is a waste of my time and valuable real estate.

Thanks UrbanSG. Atleast it's blue. Makes you realise just how small in plot size Spire really is.

I'm really not sure what to make of this one, it is certainly not elegant.. there is no theme to it , it is a squat , big floorplated, functional building, almost afraid of attracting attention to itself, merely reflecting (via the abundant blue glass) the buildings that surround it. I don't hate it I don't like it - is that what we should be getting?

Still think the bloody building should be higher!!!

I still don't like it, but at-least it is no-longer offensive. I must commend the develoeprs for improving its street presence to Bentham Street, going for blue glass, and introducing greater articulation to the western façade. Now if only they would get rid of the absurd looking pods which clutter the façade making it look messy. The Franklin Street façade should also be set back from the podium to prevent the building looking 'obese'.

On a side note, I was having a read of the documents and it is stated that the Darling Building will now be converted into boutique office space.

It'll look so stupid having Adelaide's obese and anorexic buildings stand side by side. It'll look insanely distorted.

Nonetheless, on the building itself. The blue glass is a welcome change. Everything else is pretty 'meh'.

I can't help but be blunt: the western elevation is still a 72 metre-high pile of shit. Unforgivable.

Why was my post about the landscaped wall deleted? Weird.

It may have been lost in the server migration.

AtD wrote:It may have been lost in the server migration.

Ah yeah, that's true. Pity it didn't leave my ok post and delete all my shit ones instead. Anyway, in the application papers viewable on the ACC website Aspen have included a brochure for the Elmich VGM Green Wall. It's pretty cool concept and doesn't look that expensive either. Imagine if even 50% of the ugly blank walls around the CBD had these living wall displays installed to break them up. It'd look brilliant!

http://www.elmich.com/elmich/vgm/about.php

I think that the design is... okay, but I agree with joshzxzx: the building should be higher! Let's hope we see taller buildings now that the ACC has been put in its place (FINALLY!)
Besides, tall developments SHOULD start happening soon, especially since Furious Foley stated that he would like to see something 'high-rise' on the old Clipsal site. Listen buddy, in case you haven't noticed, that site is EVEN CLOSER to the flight paths than CBD itself! I'm starting to see why MHS thinks that the government (or at lest rann and Foley) have their priorities mixed up. Foley, high rise things are for the city, or Glenelg, or Port Adelaide, NOT something in a flight path -BUT WAIT! Perhaps Furious Foley wants to shift the airport...

adam73837 wrote:I think that the design is... okay, but I agree with joshzxzx: the building should be higher! Let's hope we see taller buildings now that the ACC has been put in its place (FINALLY!)
Besides, tall developments SHOULD start happening soon, especially since Furious Foley stated that he would like to see something 'high-rise' on the old Clipsal site. Listen buddy, in case you haven't noticed, that site is EVEN CLOSER to the flight paths than CBD itself! I'm starting to see why MHS thinks that the government (or at lest rann and Foley) have their priorities mixed up. Foley, high rise things are for the city, or Glenelg, or Port Adelaide, NOT something in a flight path -BUT WAIT! Perhaps Furious Foley wants to shift the airport...

We can have 500m height limits, but if the demand is not there we are not going to be getting tall buildings. With the current economic situation, I'm not too optimistic about seeing many new 100m+ buildings for the next 3 or so years.

Furthermore the state government still has to assess any new development according to the same set of criteria as does the ACC, so the current height restrictions remain. The removal of the ACC from the planning process simply removes potential village politics interfering with the planning process.

adam73837 wrote:I think that the design is... okay, but I agree with joshzxzx: the building should be higher! Let's hope we see taller buildings now that the ACC has been put in its place (FINALLY!)
Besides, tall developments SHOULD start happening soon, especially since Furious Foley stated that he would like to see something 'high-rise' on the old Clipsal site. Listen buddy, in case you haven't noticed, that site is EVEN CLOSER to the flight paths than CBD itself! I'm starting to see why MHS thinks that the government (or at lest rann and Foley) have their priorities mixed up. Foley, high rise things are for the city, or Glenelg, or Port Adelaide, NOT something in a flight path -BUT WAIT! Perhaps Furious Foley wants to shift the airport...

Adam, Clipsal is out of the flight path, and is further away than the Westpac tower from the Airport.

Found these large renders on Colliers: