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Llessur2002
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by Llessur2002 » Mon Jan 20, 2025 3:07 pm
VinyTapestry849 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:22 am
Dude anything was better than this dilapidated heap of coloured concrete.
I think the plaza was pretty spectacular when it was new. The road cutting through the middle and the general lack of maintenance and foot traffic killed it.

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EBG
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by EBG » Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:46 am
The image shown by Llessur 2002 is not a real image but just a rendering of what the fesival plaza could have looked like . In real life the Pfestival plaza never had that many trees or garden beds it was just hectares of painted concrete. A bleak place in winter and a hot desert in summer.
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HiTouch
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by HiTouch » Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:53 am
EBG wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:46 am
The image shown by Llessur 2002 is not a real image but just a rendering of what the fesival plaza could have looked like . In real life the Pfestival plaza never had that many trees or garden beds it was just hectares of painted concrete. A bleak place in winter and a hot desert in summer.
Yeah it never was that crowded
This is one of the few times where I disagree with Viney. The signage looks tacky. In fact I will go further and say any physical signage and branding on a building is pretty outdated. Name a globally significant development that has signage in the past 5 years? LED panels are more the way of things.
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Waewick
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by Waewick » Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:39 am
Honestly the signage is just the cherry on top of what In think is an underwhelming design of the property given the location.
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Llessur2002
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by Llessur2002 » Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:43 pm
EBG wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:46 am
The image shown by Llessur 2002 is not a real image but just a rendering of what the fesival plaza could have looked like . In real life the Pfestival plaza never had that many trees or garden beds it was just hectares of painted concrete. A bleak place in winter and a hot desert in summer.
Cheers for the info, I didn't know this and I sadly wasn't here to see the original plaza before it was butchered. However whilst the trees in planters don't appear in any other photos I can find, a lot of the greenery in my original image was definitely real. I still think it was a pretty funky space for its time and arguably more practical for events etc than what we will end up with now - especially if a few extra dollars had been spent on more plantings as per the render.
However, whether or not the plaza had reached the end of its useful life in terms of materials degradation etc is another question - it could be that replacement was inevitable anyway.
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by abc » Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:32 pm
EBG wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:46 am
The image shown by Llessur 2002 is not a real image but just a rendering of what the fesival plaza could have looked like . In real life the Pfestival plaza never had that many trees or garden beds it was just hectares of painted concrete. A bleak place in winter and a hot desert in summer.
Maoists rewriting history
I was around when it was built and remember it in its original form
the amphitheatre is missed
tired of low IQ hacks
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VinyTapestry849
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by VinyTapestry849 » Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:15 pm
Ironically I feel nostalgic for that miserable concrete heap. Loved seeing druggies and needles everywhere while I walked past

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by HiTouch » Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:17 pm
abc wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:32 pm
EBG wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:46 am
The image shown by Llessur 2002 is not a real image but just a rendering of what the fesival plaza could have looked like . In real life the Pfestival plaza never had that many trees or garden beds it was just hectares of painted concrete. A bleak place in winter and a hot desert in summer.
Maoists rewriting history
I was around when it was built and remember it in its original form
the amphitheatre is missed
Yeah you definitely seem like you've been around for ages.
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Spotto
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by Spotto » Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:18 pm
abc wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:32 pm
EBG wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:46 am
The image shown by Llessur 2002 is not a real image but just a rendering of what the fesival plaza could have looked like . In real life the Pfestival plaza never had that many trees or garden beds it was just hectares of painted concrete. A bleak place in winter and a hot desert in summer.
Maoists rewriting history
I was around when it was built and remember it in its original form
the amphitheatre is missed
I must’ve missed the part where political buzz words are relevant to a brutalist slab of concrete
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by abc » Tue Jan 21, 2025 6:49 pm
Spotto wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:18 pm
abc wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:32 pm
EBG wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:46 am
The image shown by Llessur 2002 is not a real image but just a rendering of what the fesival plaza could have looked like . In real life the Pfestival plaza never had that many trees or garden beds it was just hectares of painted concrete. A bleak place in winter and a hot desert in summer.
Maoists rewriting history
I was around when it was built and remember it in its original form
the amphitheatre is missed
I must’ve missed the part where political buzz words are relevant to a brutalist slab of concrete
the shoe fits when you deliberately lie about history
tired of low IQ hacks
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Bobski
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by Bobski » Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:14 pm
Llessur2002 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 3:07 pm
VinyTapestry849 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:22 am
Dude anything was better than this dilapidated heap of coloured concrete.
I think the plaza was pretty spectacular when it was new. The road cutting through the middle and the general lack of maintenance and foot traffic killed it.
This looks like a real photo to me rather than a rendering.
There are other pics showing the same amount of greenery, e.g.
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by rev » Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:15 pm
I'm fairly certain EBG was having a bit of a laugh over how the plaza was meant to be, compared to how it turned out due to neglect...not trying to re-write history..geez
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Llessur2002
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by Llessur2002 » Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:36 am
rev wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:15 pm
I'm fairly certain EBG was having a bit of a laugh over how the plaza was meant to be, compared to how it turned out due to neglect...not trying to re-write history..geez
Sorry, completely missed that. I thought the image looked too realistic to be a render

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by Nort » Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:25 am
Bobski wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:14 pm
Llessur2002 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 3:07 pm
VinyTapestry849 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:22 am
Dude anything was better than this dilapidated heap of coloured concrete.
I think the plaza was pretty spectacular when it was new. The road cutting through the middle and the general lack of maintenance and foot traffic killed it.
This looks like a real photo to me rather than a rendering.
There are other pics showing the same amount of greenery, e.g.
Screen Shot 2025-01-21 at 7.09.42 pm.png
Source
The only reason the plaza didn't look like this until the present day is that it was intentionally neglected so that the land could be hawked off to a developer.
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SouthAussie94
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by SouthAussie94 » Wed Feb 05, 2025 6:43 pm
Llessur2002 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:36 am
rev wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:15 pm
I'm fairly certain EBG was having a bit of a laugh over how the plaza was meant to be, compared to how it turned out due to neglect...not trying to re-write history..geez
Sorry, completely missed that. I thought the image looked too realistic to be a render
Agreed, definitely looks like a real photo to me.
Were renders that realistic in the 80s? Weren't they more pencil draw sketches rather than photo realistic images? I'm thinking of renders of the LeCornu site in North Adelaide from the mid 00's, these were pencil draw sketches then. Surely they didn't regress so much in 20 years..
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