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[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:15 pm
by SBD
Pikey wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 3:52 pm
Painted fibre cement sheeting.... really???
Inspired by 1950s suburban residential?
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:19 pm
by Pikey
Presumably this is the look they're going for? But these are "raw" CFC sheets.
It can look, ok. This is on Whitmore Square, and doesn't look too bad in a low rise form. Not sure about 14 levels of it. Unless the CFC are lobby elements only? We'll wait and see.
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:06 am
by baytram366
Personally I think the "raw / unfinished" look on any building is disgusting. That development on Whitmore Square to me has always looked unfinished and almost "third world-ish" in comparison to older and well finished buildings. It just looks cheap and nasty and the less we have of this the better.
Also, I noticed in that amendment that it states "fins deleted" - what were these supposed to look like?
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:11 am
by rhino
baytram366 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:06 am
Personally I think the "raw / unfinished" look on any building is disgusting. That development on Whitmore Square to me has always looked unfinished and almost "third world-ish" in comparison to older and well finished buildings. It just looks cheap and nasty and the less we have of this the better.
Also, I noticed in that amendment that it states "fins deleted" - what were these supposed to look like?
I have to agree. This Whitmore Square development is not a look we should be aiming for. Anywhere.
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:34 am
by Mpol03
Lol if they take the fins finishing off the front then what does this have left?
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:02 pm
by Algernon
SRW wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:17 pm
Was curious what this will look like now and noticed this amendment from April last year that we appear to have missed. The prospects are not great:
Variations include - changes to heritage entrance (main entrance), facade cladding changed to painted CFC sheet, painted precast to low & unfinished precast with feature grooves to upper, green wall extent deleted, balcony screening deleted, aluminum fins deleted, glazing extent reduced from 2.7m to 2.1, contextual colour scheme adopted, fire pump and tanks relocated to ground floor, community services/heritage interpretation extent reduced, updated external materials board and details to satisfy conditions 10 and 11 (heritage)
It reads like the architect yelled "I fkn QUIT"
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:00 am
by floplo
Algernon wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:02 pm
SRW wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:17 pm
Was curious what this will look like now and noticed this amendment from April last year that we appear to have missed. The prospects are not great:
Variations include - changes to heritage entrance (main entrance), facade cladding changed to painted CFC sheet, painted precast to low & unfinished precast with feature grooves to upper, green wall extent deleted, balcony screening deleted, aluminum fins deleted, glazing extent reduced from 2.7m to 2.1, contextual colour scheme adopted, fire pump and tanks relocated to ground floor, community services/heritage interpretation extent reduced, updated external materials board and details to satisfy conditions 10 and 11 (heritage)
It reads like the architect yelled "I fkn QUIT"
Or "They turn it into student housing, let the intern do it...."
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:07 pm
by Smithy85
Piling underway.
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:14 pm
by timtam20292
So SWP now?
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:43 pm
by bm7500
Fair chance this is going to look like shit now.
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 2:09 pm
by Pikey
If piling is underway, yep, it's SWP
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 2:19 pm
by Jaymz
Only taken just shy of 7 years
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:43 pm
by EBG
Piling has begun on the southern side at the rear. picture 4/2/2019
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:15 am
by Ben
Apparently this is called “Spence on light” now but I can’t find any new renders or info.
[COM] Re: 69-71 Light Square | ~55m | 14lvls | Residential
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 6:02 pm
by Algernon
Ben wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:15 am
Apparently this is called “Spence on light” now but I can’t find any new renders or info.
Yeah
"Spence" a shitload less money on the design