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ghs wrote:Is this building going up at 2 levels per week ?

It seems like they’re building modules off site and lifting them up with the crane.

Also surely the budget is more than $35 million.

Ozbear73 wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:17 am

Jaymz I agree with you re your list of the outcomes of all the new Adelaide talls. But I still have one criticism of Realm; although it’s a very unique design (for Adelaide) and it looks great up to its full height, I still think the rooftop plant area could have been better shielded off, and the roof fascias/parapets be better designed to finish off the top of the building better.

It’s one criticism (of many) that I also have with Adelaidean, so I only hope that with 269 North Tce that we finally get a decent finish to the top, which we should, as there is scope to fit something better under the height limit ceiling with this building.

A $30m student tower rising above Adelaide’s premier cultural boulevard is being described as “hideous” and an “eyesore”. Do you agree?

A student tower rising above Adelaide’s premier cultural boulevard has raised the ire of heritage supporters who have attacked the design of the $30m building.

The 35-storey property, being built behind a state heritage listed former warehouse at 203 North Tce, will reach 115m tall when completed.

But the architectural merit of the tower has been slammed on pro-heritage facebook page Help Save South Australia’s History From Demolition.

Mario Dreosti managing director of the building’s architect Brown Falconer declined to comment on the criticism of the building.

The Advertiser has sought comment from the property’s Adelaide developer Accord Property.

Members have described the building as a “travesty”, “hideous”, “revolting” and an “eyesore”.

Back in 2017 another student tower came under fire for its design, this time off Waymouth St.

And in January this year we asked 12 of the city’s leading architects to share their most hated buildings.
So does this one beat them all for title of ‘ugliest’?

“One of the ugliest buildings on North Terrace. And that’s being generous,” wrote member, Damian Hill.

Joanna Wells said the building “looks worse than even the most hyperactive imagination would have thought”.

The facebook page has 7000 followers including several Adelaide identities SA Heritage Council chair Keith Conlon and head of the History Trust and Adelaide City Councillor Greg Mackie.

The sandstone-coloured building will have 367 beds and is expected to be topped out in the second half of this year and completed in 2022.
The State Commission Assessment Panel (SCAP) approved the building in September 2019.

Work includes retaining and restoring the facade of an existing historic 1878 warehouse associated with merchant firm G & R Wills and Co.

According to a planning report put to the SCAP the tower was designed to “to achieve a singular, monolithic and sculptured built form outcome”.

The report, which recommended the project be approved, also said Adelaide City Council raised no objection to the project, which went through a design review process with the Office for Design and Archiceture SA in April 2019.

Mario Dreosti managing director of the building’s architect Brown Falconer declined to comment on the criticism of the building.

cmet wrote: ↑

Fri May 14, 2021 12:13 am

This gets worse every time I look at it


Its good bro, wdym. Its better-having something there then nothing at all.