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Pikey wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 27, 2018 3:45 pm

Personally, I like it. Also, I think the tower that will have the biggest impact skyline wise is Luminesque. From our traditional skyline viewing perspective, it'll be a game changer. Viewing it from Light's view, it'll almost look as tall as Westpac

Jaymz wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 27, 2018 1:57 pm

I'm hardly the skyline police, I believe that developers should be able to build wherever the rules allow them.

BUT.... it's kinda a shame that our 4th tallest building is being built only metres from our new tallest. This building on say, Grenfell Street, would've been perfect.

A good problem I guess, but hoping it doesn't look too lopsided when completed. Hopefully though it's just the start of big change for our outdated skyline.

Pikey wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 27, 2018 3:45 pm

Personally, I like it. Also, I think the tower that will have the biggest impact skyline wise is Luminesque. From our traditional skyline viewing perspective, it'll be a game changer. Viewing it from Light's view, it'll almost look as tall as Westpac.

Pikey wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 27, 2018 3:45 pm

Personally, I like it. Also, I think the tower that will have the biggest impact skyline wise is Luminesque.

Brando wrote:

Pikey wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 27, 2018 3:45 pm

Personally, I like it. Also, I think the tower that will have the biggest impact skyline wise is Luminesque.

Out of all of them, this has to be the one for me that I am most excited about.

Maybe it's our previous let downs with Currie St .

Adelaidean tower developer Theo Samaras in legal action against proposed neighbouring student tower
Renato Castello, Exclusive, The Advertiser
an hour ago

THE developer of what will be Adelaide’s tallest building has launched court action claiming the public should have a say on the design of a neighbouring student tower.

Theo Samaras, who is building the 135m-tall Adelaidean hotel and apartment complex on Frome Street, claims the state’s planning authority erred in classifying a proposed 118m-tall student building on the corner of North Tce and Frome St a Category 1 development, preventing public comment on the plans.

Mr Samaras, in an application lodged with the Environment Resources and Development Court, wants an order forcing Global Student Accommodation Australia to resubmit its project as a Category 3 development — triggering the highest level of community consultation and giving opponents the right to appeal any approval.

The court application was lodged on April 9, three days before the State Commission Assessment Panel approved the $60 million tower, which would partially obscure northern views from the Adelaidean once built.

Mr Samaras — whose Adelaidean development is under development and was classified a Category 1 when approved in December 2016 — is joined in the legal action by oral and maxillofacial surgeon Dr Davor Hribar whose practice occupies 264 North Tce, to the immediate west of the proposed GSA Australia building.

In the application Botten Levinson’s George Manos states Mr Samaras became aware of SCAP’s decision to classify the project as Category 1 “on or about” March 2 upon reading the commission’s agenda item relating to the GSA Australia application.

In an outline of the grounds for a review Mr Manos said his clients did not “take issue with the description of the proposed development”.

However they argued that the Adelaide City Council’s development plan did not assign the proposed development as a Category 1 or 2 development.

“Further, the proposed development could not be regarded as involving a development that is ‘of a minor nature only’ and/or nor could it be regarded as being ‘unlikely to be the subject of reasonable objection from the owners or occupiers of land’, the application states.

“Accordingly it could not be treated as a Category 1 development.”

GSA’s lawyer James Hilditch told a directions hearing last Thursday that his client had received planning consent for the development and that they were now “prejudiced by the uncertainty these proceedings bring”.

“So my client just wants to get on with it,” he told Judge Susanne Cole, who listed the matter for a hearing on June 21.

Mr Hilditch declined to comment on the matter when contacted stating he had not been instructed by his clients to speak to the media.

GSA Australia head of real estate John Whittle and Mr Samaras declined to comment.

The GSA Australia building will require the demolition of the existing Church of Science Building, which was the subject of a failed heritage-listing bid in June 2016.

Mr Samaras has refused to say if he had sought the heritage listing.