View Full Version : ACT / DICKSON - #U/C: Block 8, Section 1 - 9L? / 30m? / Hotel?


Canberraphil
December 2nd, 2009, 01:57 AM
This one seems to have slipped under the radar (although I remember a couple of people on this forum asking about what's going on there).

It's some sort of (hotel?) development on Dooring Street, Dickson (just behind the ABC building at Northbourne/Wakefield intersection).
I remember seeing the original plans ages ago and I 'think' it's going to be 9 levels and a hotel, but can't remember properly.
At the moment it looks like the core is up to about level 7 or 8.
Here's some pictures I took this morning (hopefully this works as it's the first time I've tried to post pictures on this forum :dunno:)

View From Dooring Street, looking south-west
http://i901.photobucket.com/albums/ac219/urbanman_2009/DSC00770_small.jpg

View from Angas Street (Ainslie) looking west
http://i901.photobucket.com/albums/ac219/urbanman_2009/Block8Section1DicksonFromAinslie.jpg

View from Wakefield Avenue
http://i901.photobucket.com/albums/ac219/urbanman_2009/DSC00769.jpg

View from Northbourne Avenue with ABC in foreground
http://i901.photobucket.com/albums/ac219/urbanman_2009/DSC00771_small.jpg

ross_the_man
December 2nd, 2009, 04:23 AM
Yeah, someone brought this up a while ago. Thanks for the updates! there is a large block fenced off in Kingston, was just a park I think. Do you have any idea what is going on there?

Canberraphil
December 4th, 2009, 02:04 AM
Yeah, someone brought this up a while ago. Thanks for the updates! there is a large block fenced off in Kingston, was just a park I think. Do you have any idea what is going on there?

At the risk of going off-topic.... :)
where abouts in Kingston do you mean? there's quite a bit going on (and planned) in that area atm. would be interesting to see if one of the proposed developments has started kicking off.

PS: when i was taking those photos of Block 8, Section 1, I couldn't see any signs saying what this building actually is. (new secret ASIS HQ? :lol:)

ross_the_man
December 4th, 2009, 04:34 AM
Its nearly opposite the main section in Kingston (where green square and that are but on the other side). The big fences say Kingston Place? I thought it was more Griffith than Kingston.

How do you know the Dickson site is 9 levels? Be nice to see a render, strange they didn't have one at the site.

abc
December 22nd, 2009, 10:52 PM
Yes this is a hotel.. Being built by same group that owns the Pavilion or international hotel in front... They also own another down Northbourne at the Phoenix Building.. Clifton I think...

ross_the_man
December 23rd, 2009, 01:14 PM
Do they have a website for this development?

abc
May 20th, 2010, 07:25 AM
It's going to be called the Aria motel.. crane is down

Canberra Raiders
July 4th, 2010, 09:23 AM
This one looks finished to me. Would've post a pic.....if I had been bothered to take one.

abc
July 16th, 2010, 09:38 AM
http://www.nearmap.com/