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New multi-level childcare centre to go between the train line and Second St, bordering Park Tce. Ground floor leased to EFM health clubs, plus "two other businesses" (council development application says one will be a laundromat). Not sold on the design. The street level and even level one have a ba...

Name a single public transport project that got delivered in the 1970s anywhere in the world. I can think of a few: San Francisco opened the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in 1972 Munich, for the Olympics they delivered a big suburban rail renewal and expansion by 1972. London Underground extended t...

Renown Park (and the older bits of Brompton/Bowden/Ovingham that front Torrens Rd) is filled with hipsters and “yuppy wankers” now? [emoji849]

I think it's time to close Bank Street to cars. It's feeling a bit dingy. I don't know whether the council has cut cleaning shifts, but the entire city has been rather dingy for the last few months. There's far more litter about than usual, both because there's not enough bins (in the right places)...

The Scooter Guy wrote:What happened to Embellish Flowers & Gifts on Grenfell St?
Another victim of COVID?

Saw the response to your speculation on Facebook. Maybe next time do the smallest bit of research before you stick your foot in it.

28/12/2020 Update for project on the corner along Gibson and Fourth Street and is now at full height (apart from roof). (Correction to my last report on 31/10/2020 - this project is 8 stories not 6). Please click on pictures for bigger, Still not full height. It will have the same 3-level setback a...

I guess the idea is they're trying to soften the harsher geometry of the Festival Centre and the future office tower with a more organic pattern. Architects designing the new plaza probably took one look at the old design and the Hajek sculptures and went "heck no!" Will have to wait and see how it...

I hope they can book a better class of advertising for the entrance of our premier retail district. At the moment it's rotating between government PSAs, and a suburban chicken and chip shop (seriously).

It was voted down, but for very much the wrong reasons. It's laughable that the ones that voted it down, were the ones that pushed for the compromised dog leg in the first place. Their interest isn't in doing it right, it's in fucking with the project enough that it ends up never happening. The stat...

Disappointingly the bicycle interest groups are encouraging members to offer vocal support for the proposal (the fatally compromised design they've come up with isn't even guaranteed to pass at council). What a terrible precedent to establish, as if ACC wasn't already beholden to on street car park...

The lobby for the new MH Hotel at Dock One, Port Adelaide✨ The interior will entirely honour the 1970s Brutalist architecture in design. https://scontent.fmel3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/129843819_3004906716278472_2465949632243229349_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=2&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=SqzK3tchBEsAX-VTec0&...

So council is pressing ahead with the bike lane dogleg route, and I was correct that it's to avoid pissing off someone, namely a bunch of law firms on Flinders St who threatened to sue the council if they lost street parking spaces outside their properties. The council needs to grow a backbone and t...

I'm not sold on the paving. It's in that weird middle ground where it's trying to reference the Festival Centre geometry, but it's neither adhering to it close enough nor clearly differentiating itself (organic hexagon pattern vs strictly geometric octagon pattern).

Owner of Coca-Cola factory site at Thebarton plans to build a $350m biomedical precinct The former Coca-Cola bottling plant at Thebarton would be transformed into a state-of-the-art biomedical precinct under a $350m plan to breathe new life into the site. Adelaide company Australasian Property Deve...

I didn't mind that it was a bit harder to "pop in for drinks", since that wasn't the focus (unlike the previous VicSq version). I think the programming was excellent, but perhaps that's because I'm on a similar wavelength to the kind of shows David Sefton likes to curate. I only went to one show on ...