:lol: :lol: Kyren's buildings are all bland but good ole Samaras seems to be the only one with any balls erecting towers. Wait 'til the student accommodation tower is built. It most probably will take the spotlight. As for Realm, that too is nothing special. Simple building with a wavy form thanks ...

I think we need some honesty and realism here. I get the vested interests as per this Advertiser article are out in force but let's get real. Tunnels or flyovers still require land acquisition (entries and exits, ventilation shafts, emergency accesses and for raised roads, supports - see the Superwa...

Two thoughts after looking at the most recent photos posted: 1. As someone else said, the articulation/step effect at the top of Adelaidean is truly necessary to give it some sort of break to the blandness; and 2. I'm not so fussed about the student apartment tower (now) being built in front of it b...

It's been almost a month since my last distance shot. Not a lot of outward progress, looks like formwork up about 2 levels and the core similarly up about 2 levels. The core is either at full height or has one to two floors to go before it's there.

"Last month, ACMA chair Nick Begakis told a council committee meeting the market would require extra financial assistance from the council during construction. He said 260 fewer car parks would be available for customers during that period." Sure, 260 fewer car parks out of how many in th...

The one thing that is missing here is an underground link to Victoria square tram stop - I know this has been talked about in the past. It would have been nice to improve CBD pedestrian access to that extent and also to have traffic light free pedestrian access to this new precinct. Agree fully. Ac...

Do we have any idea if there’s even demand for a chunky new office building? Forecasting the future based on the past is fool's game, but that said, the most recent public research from KnightFrank on the Adelaide office market (issued Sep 2019) highlights the following: - In the six months to July...

With both Realm and Adelaidean now topped out, this is to my mind the next most 'impactful' building underway (although the Casino is a close second given it's location and amazing glass). It's surprisingly long on the North-South axis which means it will really stand out from the west for those com...

Photo from today - formwork of Wingfold Tower almost equal to full height of Uno Apartments (to the right). Main core of Sofitel continues to rise in between the two. [click on pic to enlarge]

Fantastic. Amazing to think we had three buildings 100m+ (Westpac, Grenfell Centre and Telstra) for more or less 30 years from 1988 to 2018. With Kodo's recent completion, Adelaidean topped out and Realm presumably not far off topping out as well, we'll double our 100m+ count to six in the space of ...

The Australia Post site was listed for sale yesterday. At just under 18,000 sqm it is the largest CBD site to be offered to the market. This is a massive opportunity for Adelaide. Hopefully there is some grand thinking by whoever the purchaser ends up being. Interesting - only yesterday an article ...

It's another bait and switch, and hardly new to the development scene (propose a tower with decent materials and design elements, get approval, then dumb down the hell out of it) but to me this is - on the face of it - exceptionally egregious. This isn't a 15 storey high student tower wedged between...

Tractors have been busy this week digging out the empty block next to 60 South Terrace apartments but I'm not sure what development (if any) is planned - that block seems to go by a large range of street addresses. The planning alerts for that site are two months old and talk about a 6 level apartme...

Wingfold Tower core seems to have just pipped the top of neighbouring Uno Apartments. Looks like Sofitel core (or one of them) visible in the gap between.

Can't imagine these would be very tall at all given the location. I'd imagine airport height limits of whatever sort in that location would keep them well under 100m.