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Some pics from last week:

Steelwork is being erected on the western side of the site & Samaras was assembling a truck mounted jib crane on the eastern side
yesterday, the aircraft hangar will disappear behind the new entrance & theatres ...

WOW I didn't realise its going to be that big very impressive

i hope it will be a attractive distraction from the drab Ent Centre

It will be quite a transformation from the present "ugly duckling" - that new venue on the western side will get a large LED banner screen
for graphics, text & video ...

http://www.hansenyuncken.com.au/__files ... cument.pdf
1 GENERAL
Hansen Yuncken has been appointed Managing Contractor for the Adelaide Entertainment Centre Facility
Enhancements Upgrade at Port Road, Hindmarsh SA. The project is currently in construction with an
anticipated completion in February 2010. The proposed construction involves both new building works and
refurbishment.
As part of this project, a LED banner screen is proposed to be installed to the front of the new Performance
Venue. The screen faces both public spaces and Port Road. The LED screen will display:
Graphics
Text
Full motion video
The screen will have a length of 67.2 metres and have a height of 2.4 metres.
Registrations of Interest are sought from suitable organisations for Supply and Installation of the LED Screen.
REGISTRATIONS CLOSE ON: 13th May 2009
This document outlines the details of the project and the information required in Registrations

(renders & plans at bottom of PDF)

* Some clearer renders here: http://www.hansenyuncken.com.au/our-pro ... 1&id=32878

Thanks for all the progress photos. It is going to look much better when its finished. I didn't know it was originally built for basketball - very interesting.
But I agree it looks like an Aircraft hanger. Will the view from Adam / Manton Street change? Any cladding or anything to be applied?

More pics from Thursday - looks like a warehouse being built in front of the hangar for now:

And whats the new centre going to be called "THE WAREHOUSE". I am sick of Adelaide doing things
on the cheap. It has always been evident that the Entertainment Centre was a piecemeal design
and approach once Basketball went its own way. We thus ended up with another set of sub-standard
stadiums etc.

i might be wrong, but i think this 'warehouse' part of the development is not facing port rd - right? the port road side has no new 'building components' apart from the snazzy parachute-like glass canopy.

I really can't fathom why the gov would like a airplane hanger on Port Road... I hope they can manage to put some nice trees or something around the "Warehouse" to disguise it a little.

All new works are facing Port Rd. The "warehouse" element is the new 2500 person venue.

Cheers for the update Xaragmata, making quite an impact.

Some pics from Monday - the warehouse shell is nearing completion...

From what I understand is that boxy grey thing won't even be visble from Port Road as it will be covered by the big glass parts of the building that will extend to the road. That warehouse part is a big distance from the road leaving lots of room for things in front of it.

It's actually not that far from the road.

Honey, what's this, what's happening?