[COM] 52-66 King William Street | 65m | 15 Levels | Southern Cross Arcade

[AG]

This building has now topped out.

[citywatcher]

That facade looks ridiculous

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[[Shuz]]

No it doesn't? If anything it looks good.

[Mpol02]

I think the facade looks amazing. More like this please

[abc]

No it doesn't? If anything it looks good.

I think he's talking about the old existing facade they've attempted to incorporate into this new building.

TBH that does look kinda ridiculous.

[Hex]

I assume they are going to clean it up later but it looks old and disgusting right now. I'm not sure why it was even preserved instead of just a new similar replica.

[abc]

It defeats the purpose of facade preservation which is to give the illusion the original building is still there, and retain the character of the street-scape, as we see on North Terrace.

[citywatcher]

Anyone a render of the finish around the old building ?

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[AndyWelsh]

Anyone a render of the finish around the old building ?

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Not sure if anyone can do any better but this is the best I could find. The pdf links I’d previously seem to the plans don’t work any more.




What it looked like on the before and after the facade was incorporated.


Another mock-up I found.



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[Llessur2002]

I think it's going to look pretty good. I'm glad they retained it

[[Shuz]]

I remember walking by West Franklin a couple of weeks ago and there was this site next to it that had this massive gold colored framed window with black beams and I gotta say they look very similar to the windows in the renders on the ground level for this project.

[Dvious]

I remember walking by West Franklin a couple of weeks ago and there was this site next to it that had this massive gold colored framed window with black beams and I gotta say they look very similar to the windows in the renders on the ground level for this project.

Thats for the GPO hotel

[Spotto]

The Sands & McDougall facade will look very nice with the new building, but so many people got riled up about saving the facade that they completely forgot that just around the back, the James Place Hotel which was originally going to be preserved in its entirety, was sacrificed in its place.

In a perfect world, we would've saved both. But if I had to choose my vote would've been for saving an entire building over a small facade.

[Nathan]

But if I had to choose my vote would've been for saving an entire building over a small facade.

Whole (or majority) of a building should always be the preference over a facade. One is genuinely preserving heritage, the other is skinning it and hanging the remains like a painting.

[citywatcher]

Cheers
The finished render looks more like it
I hope it looks like that in real life

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