Heres the article, can't wait for this one! :cheers: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/property/news/storey-tower-to-overshadow-city-church/story-e6frefgc-1226124013575 27-storey tower to overshadow city church Source: The Advertiser A CONTROVERSIAL expansion of the Grand Medina Treasury hotel, set to b...

heres another render I found after a quick google search.

each design is even less inspiring than the last Got a bad feeling that there will be a massive blank wall on the sides... and that this won't age to well...

I'm pretty sure they cancelled their Olympic bid a while ago, instead focussing on a bid for the Youth Olympics.

[Shuz] wrote:Amazing stuff for Brisbane, but I cannot understand why they would stop 300mm short of taking the title of Australia's tallest building to roof!
Eureka Tower in Melbourne's Southbank is 297.3m tall.

i've been following this project since May and I keep thinking the same thing

i was going to post this the other day , im pretty sure its been approved... plus its called the Kingdom Tower encase you wanted to change the name.

This was on most of the news reports earlier, where it also showed a nice fly-through :D They also interviewed a few people from the public, though i think they purposely interviewed more negative people then they did positive. One guy did point out that he thinks Adelaide needs to search in google ...

I was so shocked when I saw this I closed my laptop and came back ten minutes later to check if my computer was infested by a virus or something... :shock: Looks amazing! Hopefully it gets the go-ahead, got a strange feeling the council will put its height down to the traditional 72m :roll: As long ...

Alliance says it has also expanded into the tourism market, winning contracts to fly tourism charter flights to South Australian tourism destinations including Kangaroo Island , the Flinders Ranges, Lake Eyre and Coober Pedy. Wonder how long the flights to KI will last... seems to be a doomed route.

am i the only one who got excited about the one metre height increase?

looks pretty good, but i've got the strangest idea that it won't age well

... the architect i spoke to definitely told me they were making modifications... perhaps they meant small changes to the blueprints, landscaping, or interior. Anyway, definitely glad they're going ahead!

according to emporis this building is cancelled, then again I think we all worked that all out by now

Adelaide seems to like poorly restoring old buildings, for once a restoration would have looked good and instead they give us this

Here are some more renders, i'm not sure if they're up to date, but they were on the architects website...