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recent pic by Melbournecity>

http://images.fotopic.net/?id=4994064&outx=480&oq=0

pic from lsswebcam today>
http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/culwulla/68eurejka.jpg

Floor pour today, western side. (June 8)

Nov 03
http://members.optusnet.com.au/lukekasper/Nov03.jpg

Jun 04 (today June 8)

http://members.optusnet.com.au/lukekasper/may04.jpg

WHOA ! holy shit !

what a difference between the photos ey !

Lozza :rock: :grouphug:

PUMP IT UP! :carrot: :banana: :pepper: :banana2:

Has anyone ever been on one of the flloors of the S Block building at Caulfield Monash?

I went there today, and was cursing I didn't take my cam with me :(

The most amazing oblique view of Melbourne I have -ever- seen. Forget the view from the North West & the ravine system, the elevated view from Caulfield is the shit! :)

Has anyone ever been on one of the flloors of the S Block building at Caulfield Monash?

I went there today, and was cursing I didn't take my cam with me :(

The most amazing oblique view of Melbourne I have -ever- seen. Forget the view from the North West & the ravine system, the elevated view from Caulfield is the shit! :)

yeap :) think so anyway!

in your dreams train-traveller, check this out, the second best view in town

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/uploads/483/skyline200406.jpg

the best, i must say is from my house, same distance but closer to the perpendicular, so eureka sits left of bourke place and freshwater sits between bourke place and rialto - a mass of glass

one thing about this pic, shows how desperately the skyline needs Cosmopolitan nest to Comm Bank. in due course there wont be too many gaps in this pic

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~wadad/mypic93.jpg

Pity the sun in that last pic did flare out the mistake in the glass panels. :wallbash:

If those two pieces of glass arnt swapped soon I'm going to have a complex looking at it.

LOL - please oh PLEASE don't bring that up again.

I think it lasted 100 - 150 posts in the last thread ;)

aah my eyes! lol

The sunlight reflections off this tower are gona be chronic, eispecially off the golden crown (Im absolutely dying to see how the top gold part turns out!)

I agree. The blue and white looks great, but I'm hanging out to see how the gold top compliments it and how the whole building sits in the skyline when its at full height. Renders just don't do it. >>>>>>>>>>>fast forward 2006

Gday

Yr not going to believe this guys , but i am almost certain that there is another core pour today ( Wednesday 9th )

This is a cracking pace ! :rock:

Cheers

Lozza :drunk:

Yeah it *just* looks like the pumping arm is out in the LSS webcam!! I thought I wasn't seeing things :)

Your right mate.. this *is* a cracking pace! It's been well over a year since we've seen an 8 working day turnaround between rise & next pour !!!

Bring it aaawwwnn.. :cheers: :drunk: :grouphug:

told you so! the "grocon" guy told me the upper 1/3 of Eureka will power along due to its small simple core! he actually said a rise every 2 weeks. not far off.

Yeah it *just* looks like the pumping arm is out in the LSS webcam!! I thought I wasn't seeing things :)

Gee you guys have great eye sight. I'm having a look at the LSS webcam and can't see anything up top apart from the crane!

On a downer, I don't think they're going to get much done today with the weather we've got rolling in :(

Yeah , a guy said to me that he just beat the "Rolling Clouds " in from the west when he arrived into the city !!

He said that a City Thunderstorm won't be far away !

Geez , u would hate to be up on top of Eureka during the pour core wouldn't you ! hehe ! :runaway:

cheers

Lozza :rock:

in your dreams train-traveller, check this out, the second best view in town

the best, i must say is from my house, same distance but closer to the perpendicular, so eureka sits left of bourke place and freshwater sits between bourke place and rialto - a mass of glass

one thing about this pic, shows how desperately the skyline needs Cosmopolitan nest to Comm Bank. in due course there wont be too many gaps in this pic

Attn: Silver & tays: Nah that's the third best view. The best view is from my balcony. You guys should know that. LOL

Cheers

Dean - Melbourne

Well the last pour was on a Tuesday and rose on the Saturday so lets hope with the quicker schedule we can see it rise this Saturday before the public holiday on Monday

If this pace keeps up we may still see it top out by the end of the year
It'll be pretty close anyway

This weekend is a loooong weekend, no work Saturday =:)

lol Dean, smartarse.

silvermb: you don't understand, although your view's great for the full stretch (CBD + Docklands), from Caulfield you get all that PLUS St. Kilda road, St. Kilda, East Melbourne & Richmond - all clearly visible. That north west view has better elevation though.

look at it this way, you've got a prime view of Minogue's great arse, however on the other side, we've got a prime view of the full package ;)

:rock:

the best view of the city i think is from behind fitzroy st up really high or crown towers!

in your dreams train-traveller, check this out, the second best view in town

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/uploads/483/skyline200406.jpg

the best, i must say is from my house, same distance but closer to the perpendicular, so eureka sits left of bourke place and freshwater sits between bourke place and rialto - a mass of glass

one thing about this pic, shows how desperately the skyline needs Cosmopolitan nest to Comm Bank. in due course there wont be too many gaps in this pic


Hey there,

May I please request a larger version of that pic if it exsists (If you took it yourself).. If not no matter.. Git yorself a camera and show us the view from your hosue.. twould be swoit..

I was in melb last weekend for the Nazxul gig at the Espy. Day after, recovering from the, um, nightly entertainments, I took a few photos around the city, and went up the ol' hunk o' glass again!

I think that's about the 6th time this year, not a bad effort for someone not living in melbourne! I'll post some pics when I get home for hell (work).

http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/7609/101577609ml1086264644.jpg

And we've had a floorplate rise to 48 exposed.

what happened to the booms of the two cranes on Eureka and the crane on fwp comm?? Maybe some photo magic going on??? Looks good anyway!

that photo is tweaked doesnt even look real lol

This was taken Sunday, a shot I'm sure I've posted before and probably a bit outdated after all the activity of the past few days. Anyways....

http://img38.photobucket.com/albums/v117/henrybal/south%20melbourne/DSCF0045.jpg

héhé, the Tasmanian tourism campaign's gold don't you think? ;)

yeah i noticed that a few days ago lol

Mega Eureka rendering:

http://www.aecbytes.com/feature/Eureka-images/fig1.jpg

Floorplans:

http://www.aecbytes.com/feature/Eureka-images/fig3a.jpg

Has anyone been to the Melbourne museum? there is a quick 3D movie that builds Eureka tower! It is mad! It only runs for 10 seconds or so though.

what is that red thingy on the top of eureka?

I went to melb last weekend.. IT'S A SEXAH CITY!

http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/SS/1.jpg
http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/SS/2.jpg
http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/SS/3.jpg
http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/SS/4.jpg

Love all the photo's thanx heaps!!!!!

what is that red thingy on the top of eureka?
an architectural feature :)

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~wadad/mypic99.jpg
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~wadad/mypic98.jpg

.....only to plought into Eureka due to the fog?

yeah it was very foggy on friday morning could not see anything :(

i wanted a photo similar to q1 where the top comes through the clouds

what is that red thingy on the top of eureka?
A Favelle M380D, diesel powered tower crane. LOL=:)

i wanted a photo similar to q1 where the top comes through the clouds

I was bored so I made you up this...

http://melbournephotos.gotdns.com/pics/Skyscraper%20Models/Eureka%20Renders/sunnyclouds.jpg

can u make it realistic?

Ahh yes she is progressing well now, just to remind people of where we have come from:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/paa836dff81520918c32153019545d89b/fc52ee79.jpg

can u make it realistic?

No.

Taken this afternoon:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid121/p4ca3249cd9a20e1eaf469c6b955a618b/f84e7055.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid121/pab22ab55291e660e4aec3bb75594fcb9/f84e705d.jpg

Just realised a few more floors and we are going to have a serious change of floorplates. IT's gonna be good to see something different after so long. Not that looking at Eureka is boring me at all, but yeah it's exciting to see it's not too far off reaching that first setback :D

I think someone mentioned that it should hopefully speed up the construction as the higher floors are much smaller.

Hey Everyone.

Long time reader, first time poster, in fact I just signed up as a member today.

I’ve been coming to the Melbourne forum here for around a year due to my insatiable interest in large infrastructure construction - you could even call it a fetish. But I haven't had the urge to post before now, I've been happy reading every second day or so.

In the last month I've been coming back every day to watch the big three, Eureka, Southern Cross Station and the MCG in particular. It's awesome to be living on the other side of the world now, Toronto, and still have such a great view of the city I know and love.

I wish I could be there to watch Eureka rise in real life and Southern Cross develop its beautiful wings, but this is just as good. I left in October last year, and won't be back for 4 years, so I'll have a vastly different skyline when I get back. At least because of this site, it won't be such a shock.

I guess what I'm saying is, I'll be starting to contribute now instead of just reading. After reading for so long, I feel I know most of you guys already.

That plotstyle and uewepuep conversation killed me. "can you make it realistic" - "No." absolute pisser.

Cheers.

welcome : P


That plotstyle and uewepuep conversation killed me. "can you make it realistic" - "No." absolute pisser.

yeah made me laugh aswell!

welcome mmm_free_wig to the forum, hope you have fun

/me bows

:D
Welcome to the forum.

here's hoping that we get that well awaited Core Rise tomorrow ! :rock:

Cheers

lozza :drunk:

awesome looking tower for an awesome looking city ! I am very excited about this and look forward to seeing it rising from southbank from a plane when I come back home in the next school holidays. It should be 230m+ by then.

Hey guys,

I'm new to this forum and I'd just like to say I'm doing photography and will be taking plenty of photos of the Eureka Tower as it is being built. So I was just letting you all know that I will be posting plenty of high res images of the tower from now until it's completed. I have a passion for skyscrapers so I'm going to do a photo essay on the tower.
Hopefully I will post my 1st lot of images within the next fortnight. If you have any angles of the tower that you might think would look great just let me know.

T for Tommy.........good work!

I cant really get any elevated shots of Eureka so anything above ground level would go well. apart from that, a fair pic can be had standing outside the aquarium, with Crown and Freshwater also in shot.

and dont limit your skills to Eureka, pics of anything with a tower crane goes well around here

Wow!! Two new members in the one day :guns1: Welcome to the scraper mad house guys. No doubt you'll get plenty of enjoyment!

Looking forward to seeing those pics T_Thayer :)

no worries guys, glad to be here, I have a few ideas on what sort of shots I'll take, hopefully they'll satisfy you all.

damn! the lss webcam has been playing up lately and is constantly 2-3 days late.
welcome new guys!

hmm i have a fasination with cores and slabs spiderman...

Yay! More Eureka photos.

The June set of photographs have been published on Eureka's website:
http://www.eurekatower.com.au/photos/jun04/jun04.asp

Eureka would have the highest floorplates on Southbank by now wouldn't it?

this is the best of the June pics from the site IMO:

http://www.eurekatower.com.au/photos/jun04/12.jpg

those images on the site are so lame and suck 2 yr old could do better :(

j/k

seriously though...

they should be at least be to the level of the spenecer st station site
and what about some core and slab action and the view would be great this is a....

couple hundred million dollar building

better yet they should pay us 5 buks a photo and we get access all areas....

anyone up for it?

hmm i have a fasination with cores and slabs spiderman...
Wtf are you talking about?

Spiderman?! what?!

Hey guys,

If you have any angles of the tower that you might think would look great just let me know.


guess suggesting what i want shots of hope he can make it up

This is another great shot from the site:

http://www.eurekatower.com.au/photos/jun04/10.jpg

They are gona have to zoom way out to take photos in the months coming up!

Hey Tommy great to see another KISS fan on the boards.. :rock:

No core rise today.. so should be Thursday.

Oh and welcome to the wig guy too..

still at 61

A-Brain, it's nice to know that I'm not the only Kiss fan on these boards.

I should be taking photos of Eureka on Tuesday, weather permitting.

Yeah i went to the concert at Rod Laver Arena last month as well. I mangaed to get right up the front which made it even better... and just as i was leaving to head home, who should i bump into but SSC's resident Eureka Freak - Adrian.

Cheers

Dean - Melbourne

SHIT SYDNEY-DUDE !

Eureka looks loke a " MONSTER " already from that picture above ! :rock:

Cheers

Lozza :rock:

Dean I was at the concert as well (Thursday night) and also went to the Palais theatre show on the Saturday and was 6 rows from the front.

This is another great shot from the site:

http://www.eurekatower.com.au/photos/jun04/10.jpg

They are gona have to zoom way out to take photos in the months coming up!

HOLY SHIT. What is the height to top of lift core right now ? Still less than 210m ?

No core rise today? I guess with the awful weather and the long weekend it could still be a couple of days off.

Crap! Eureka looks massive already...

the pic below looks odd cos it looks like theres nothing at all on the other side. but still.... FAARRRK!

cheers

has anyone been up there yet or is in the not to distant future?

http://www.eurekatower.com.au/photos/jun04/10.jpg

DAMN!! Look at this beautiful thing! Now picture another 30 floors on top :guns1:

BTW, any Pink Floyd fans amongst us? ;) (sorry, couldn't resist)

Yeah ,

I have become.........

" COMFORTABLY NUMB ! " hehehe ! :rock:

Great Song !

Come to think of it, Dark Side Of The Moon is an awesome album too !

Cheers

Lozza :drunk:

what are the chances of a core rise today :(

Not good now Plotstyle ! bloody bludgers ! hehe ! :rant: :rant:

Maybe tomorrow hopefully ! :rock:

Cheers :drunk:

Lozza :drunk:

http://webcam.omni.net.au/OmniCam/Images/t00/0B57DE6714/4/w.jpg http://webcam.omni.net.au/

^^ say bye bye to that image in ohhh about 10 minutes.

There's no point hotlinking omni-cam images.

just save image on your own host site and repost!
if you want to checkout Eureka & FWP. the cam number 4 (Port melbourne) is best!
pic taken 4;30 today! E is looking tall! , just think its 203m atm, which is approx height of what FWP1 will be!!! it sure will give Rialto some play friends! hehe

>http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/culwulla/omnicamjun19.jpg

I will be taking photos of Eureka on Tuesday so I hope to post them on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.

Floorplate rise to 49 exposed!

level 49 is 154m above grd! thats over 500ft! only 475ft of floors to go!

Check out this ARM proposal for the Eureka Tower site:

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~naharrison/sun tower.jpg

Interesting that it has the same gold crown as Eureka.

WTF????

That simply looks like someone has taken a mallet and sledgehammered the big E down 260m into the ground !!!

Don't know where you find em G-man ... that thing is bizzare in the extroime..

eeeiiii! that only looks 150m? "sun tower" lol

hmm you think they would have a better render for such a project

Wow, glad they didn't build that, would have been totally overshaddowed by FWP next door.

maybe this time next year?

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid123/pd59a054a5a349791cef31b9efe06ac55/f82be784.jpg

i'm new to the forum but have got quite addicted to discovering the vast range of threads and experts. don't have an avatar (actually I want Dean's) or a dig. camera, which i'm working on - but paid some dues by walking southbank to new quay today. some observations:
1. eureka - no core rise since May 28, must rise this week - but now looking spectacular with near full-length views from Docklands, particularly from out near the Victoria Harbour display suite.
2. btw that display-suite (Vic harbour) has excellent scale model of docklands and most of the city - a kind of small version of what cull. has done in Sydney (and btw i don't think prof. bill melbourne at monash has anything like that. talked to him when pursuing something similar for a mag. article lst year.
3. up-river towards city (or is is downriver there?) from Yarra Edge looks a lot like Chicago river view, with rialto and crown making big impacts either side, and will be even better when super-talls come up behind crown (its best aspect there).
4. Anyone know the fate of the last derelict dock warehouse on north wharf, end of the flinders street ext., with old mobile dock crane? looks ripe for smthing.
5. YE 5 is spectacular, but still puzzled abt its height relative to YE4. If latter is 129m then YE5 is much much taller than reported 134m - but pehaps YE4 is only 100m ???Anyway, great complex, but the river insert there is filthy, full of back-eddy plastic detrius, and it smells. Mirvac, whatever the board of works is called now, or someone shd be cleaning it up.
6. Docklands walking park is getting plenty of water features; decided i like the squat leggo-like nab headquarters, and it has already brought lots of lunchtime street life to the precinct. Watergate Place twins near finished, Victoria Point site very busy, with twin cores looking about level 6. The fifth New Quay bldg (forget its name) similarly steaming along. Looked like site preparation starting on the low-rise victoria point behind the nab hdqters and selling started for a Dock 5 tower which will come next to that. All still a bit half-formed, but will be grerat.Thats it from a casual observer Cheers Bronte

welcome to the board Bronte

- old derelict shed if I'm not mistaken is heritage listed (or about to be) OR it's the site for the automotive excellence research centre - not 100% sure, but there is something mooted for that area.

you seem to be a long time lurker, like The Collector once was, considered coming along to our next get-together (http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=109474) in 2 weeks?

cheers

5. YE 5 is spectacular, but still puzzled abt its height relative to YE4. If latter is 129m then YE5 is much much taller than reported 134m - but pehaps YE4 is only 100m ???

YE4 is only 100m high.

Thanks for that: I had intended to quietly show up at the get-together next week, but wasn't sure whether I'd declare myself (am good dealer older than your crew, but nobody has ever accused me of being old in the head).
Something else - interstate visitor - is pressing on next week, so if i don't make it I will certainly come to the next. Watching it all for a while, I do find the commitment and enthusiasm on the threads very infectious...and pretty funny sometimes, too.
To Eureka:the docklands vantage point (yestdy) gives near full-length on its narrowest profile, so it looks staggeringly tall but almst fragile compared to rialto. conversely, my daily view - from albert park tracks - gives its 'fattest' side. Looking forward to seeing how setbacks will cut in and modify that. altho its glass (good), I'm hoping it will have some of the presence of my own fav nyc skyscraper, 1 rockefeller center (now the GE bldg), as this broad-faced narrow-depth blg radiates immense power, and there's another analogy for both eureka and 1-fwp there too. 1rock's grace is hugely enhanced by the sunken 'prometheus' ice rink/summer garden cafe at its base. Uniquely in all of oz, i think, both E. and FWP1 will be framed by wonderful ground-level settings - the sculpture walk to the river steps in the case of big E, and the sandridge bridge-end plaza for FWP nearby if Delahunty/MCC get that right. For obvious reasons I liked the sunken ampitheatre in the bridge rendering posted. Cheers Bronte.

That old shed is Queen's Warehouse and is home to the Fox Car Museum. It will be part of a new Autombile TAFE currently under construction.

I also noticed this morning that I think the southern facade is now changing!

Aussie Steve i think Bronte is referring to the old shed right on the yarra next door to the church thing across the road from Village Docklands site, it has a large crane out front of it and it is looking pretty run down.

yes thanks, pixaus is correct. i was referring to the rundown last north wharf shed and maritime crane right on the water, beside the road bridge across the yarra there (and behind the old mission to seamen )

Oh!

BERTH NO. 5 NORTH WHARF
FLINDERS STREET MELBOURNE

What is significant?
Berth No 5 North Wharf consists of a shipping berth, a concrete and timber wharf apron, a steel framed cargo shed and an electric travelling crane. The area has been a wharf since 1855 dealing mainly with domestic cargo. The current built fabric dates from the immediate post war era but there appears to be earlier bluestone paving under later bitumen. The 1948 crane was locally designed and built by Malcolm Moore Limited. The steel work for the shed was fabricated by Melbourne firm Charles Ruwolt Pty Ltd. The berth was made redundant by the closure of the river below the Charles Grimes Bridge in 1975.

How is it significant?
Berth No 5 North Wharf is of historical and scientific (technological) significance to the State of Victoria.

Why is it significant?
Berth No 5 North Wharf is historically and technologically important as the most complete and intact cargo berth in the Port of Melbourne remaining from the pre-containerisation era. It remains essentially unchanged since its redundancy as a cargo berth. It is unusual for the retention of its original semi-portal electric crane. The berth is important for its ability to demonstrate the cargo handling methods of the pre-containerisation era.

http://www.doi.vic.gov.au/doi/hvolr.nsf/LUDL/H1798/$file/1_berth_5_north_wharf_jun01_pm1.jpg
http://www.doi.vic.gov.au/doi/hvolr.nsf/LUDL/H1798/$file/berth_5_north_wharf_plan.jpg

back to eureka any one seen it today?

Yeh, its still there. Still hasn't moved. Still, still still no action :(

But I did notice yesterday that the foor plates facing south have been reconfigured (I think).

Fuck, I'd hate to develop Batman's Hill as it was where Batman did SOMETHING. Is there no end to this heritage crap?

Fuck, I'd hate to develop Batman's Hill as it was where Batman did SOMETHING. Is there no end to this heritage crap?
thats where Batman met Robin!?

hey heritage rules!! without heritage you have no history and with no history you have no city!

What's the importance of a dock to an everyday person? There is no importance to everyday people. It really annoys me when old shitty rund down buildings are placed on the heritage listing because they were the first to use a technique or something. Granted there are some buildings that need to be placed on the registra, but really, that dock?

The shead has a heritage listing because attached to it is that way cool semi-portal electric crane. If you look at the picture you can see that the crane actually runs along rails on the shed itself, so demolish the building and the crane has to go with it.

I would love to see the crane restored, I wonder if it still works?

That shed only needs a creative person with money who could develop it into a reception centre, niteclub or even a car yard! Great position and potential for a Holden or Ford dealership!

Getting a little bit off topic there with Shed's in Docklands talk??

Anyways thought you guys might like to know that the Eternal Rise of the Spotless Core has finally occurred - Level 62 Exposed at 4:00PM and hopefully maybe 63 by evening..

Cheers..

A.

The consortium that built Flinders wharf tower plan to restore the crane, shed and Missions to Seamens building as well as build a new public promenade.

Cheers

Dean - Melbourne

Geez they're leaving it very late for a core rise... it'll be dark if they wanna expose 63 tonight...

So how high is E now? (assuming it rises to 63 tonight)

Gday Guys ,

Eureka will be about 211 metres to the top of the core box after tonites core rise , which is almost a milestone, as it will just about eclipse Melbourne Central's height ! :rock:

Its scary to think that it still has about 86 metres to go till top out time !!!!! :rock:

cheers :drunk:

Lozza :rock:

http://www.thehoddlegrid.net/dump/efromsilvermbsjoint.jpg

no idea if that was before or after any rise.

That first core rise for 27 days. I wonder if the next one will be as slow
Must be near the second setback, where i think they have to re-configure the core box again.
Thanks for heritage information and pics on both sheds Aussie Steve - you obviously it all yr fingertips. Love to see 5 north wharf cleaned up and something done with it anyway (weekend market, or a ship's chandlery for the docklands yachts, say). Bronte

no idea if that was before or after any rise.

What suburb is that pic from Tays? That's a nice view! I guess it's to the north, and obviously elevated, but the houses in picture look quite new while the infrastructure looks established?? :?

i wouldn't mind walking out the front door and seeing that view every day (he he he)

that's from Avondale Heights finn

i wouldn't mind walking out the front door and seeing that view every day (he he he)

that's from Avondale Heights finn

Thanks silvermb! :)

Avondale Heights...then you must look over the former Department of Defence site in Maribyrnong (soon to be housing and offices! ;)).

Must be near the second setback, where i think they have to re-configure the core box again

They've already done the 2nd set back around floor 55 I think, the first was at 26 or 27?
Disappointing at how long this core rise took considering how quickly they did the pour. I know its been rather average weather lately but that can't of been the only reason.

Sorry Dean, but the developers of Flinders Wharf do not have the rights to develop the old shed let alone the Mission to the Seamen (which is currently undergoing external restoration work). The last section of their development is the park between the old shed and the new apartment complex.

The consortium that built Flinders wharf tower plan to restore the crane, shed and Missions to Seamens building as well as build a new public promenade.

Cheers

Dean - Melbourne

They've already done the 2nd set back around floor 55 I think, the first was at 26 or 27?



You sure pisstake? The setbacks look about 50 (west) and 55 (east) to me - see Collin's (inspired by JayT post) 'Eureka with spires' on the general Victoria-Melbourne forum site today, with breathtaking render from the edge of Federatioin Square. There is a complete plan somewhere - in the archived thread i think.

no, think we're both wrong - setbacks at 559west) and 63 (east)??

You sure pisstake? The setbacks look about 50 (west) and 55 (east) to me - see Collin's (inspired by JayT post) 'Eureka with spires' on the general Victoria-Melbourne forum site today, with breathtaking render from the edge of Federatioin Square. There is a complete plan somewhere - in the archived thread i think.

Floor level 56 is the last level (the roof) of the western wing and floor level 65 is the last level (the roof) of the eastern wing.

Bronte: The exterior floor setbacks are different to the core setbacks.

The core has already narrowed (setback) twice - as pisstake has indicated correctly - and no more. The first was at Level 27 and the second & last was at Level 55, so there was no good reason for this delayed core rise.

The exterior setbacks - as you can visibly see from the renders - occur at Level 55 (West side, co-incident with the core) and Level 64 (East Side).

So - the bottom of the core box now is exactly where the upper exterior setback will occur.

BTW - This is assuming from LSS that the full core rise has indeed occured - which it appears to me.

cool, 210m? wow, nearly 700ft (213m). maybe next rise.
So if you count height to roofs in melb, its still no 5, just.

Rialto-251m
bourke pl-224m
120 collins-220m
melb central-211m
EUREKA-210m UC (June24)

THE ELITE 200M+ CLUB in Australia (TO ROOF)
rialto-251m
wt-230m
mlc-228m
gpt-227m
central park-226m
bourke pl-224m
120 collins-220m
chifley tw-216m
bankwest-214m
melb central-211m
EUREKA-210M UC (11TH) and climbing..........
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Bronte: The exterior floor setbacks are different to the core setbacks.

The core has already narrowed (setback) twice - as pisstake has indicated correctly - and no more. The first was at Level 27 and the second & last was at Level 55, so there was no good reason for this delayed core rise.


Aha, that explains. Thanks. Anyway i"m really looking forward to getting out and seeing it from Albert Park in the morning, because I object: daniel grollo has really frigged me around with 27 days for this last core rise. :cheers:

heres a pic of the 210m Eureka at 9am today!

from 101 collins spire

http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/culwulla/june25.jpg

just fits in webcam view.



http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/culwulla/75june25.jpg

Gday

After Eureka's next 3 rises ( 70 floors above ground ) , Eureka will shoot up to 231 metres , effectively making it the second highest point to the roof in Australia , overtaking Melbourne Central , Bankwest , Chifley Tower , 120 Collins Street, Bourke Place, Central Park, Governor Phillip Tower, MLC & World Tower. Then , the only one ahead of Eureka will be Rialto. :rock:

So there are some BIG Milestones happening over the next 2 months if they pull their finger out hopefully !!! :rock:

Cheers :drunk:

Lozza :rock:

Hey there I"m a newbie. IMHO eureka has now progressed to looking really tall. Interesting how a core rise of only 2 floors can change your perception of its height.

So true maka...maka...ummmmm, you. To the well-trained skyscraper nerd's eye that is.

BTW Welcome (a beautiful Maori name to be shortened to "maka" or "maccas" or...) you :)

....

quick diagram of progress

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid123/pa1aedc42b3b170535885b8558ca58bf6/f8205fd7.jpg

Gday

After Eureka's next 3 rises ( 70 floors above ground ) , Eureka will shoot up to 231 metres , effectively making it the second highest point to the roof in Australia , overtaking Melbourne Central , Bankwest , Chifley Tower , 120 Collins Street, Bourke Place, Central Park, Governor Phillip Tower, MLC & World Tower. Then , the only one ahead of Eureka will be Rialto.

So there are some BIG Milestones happening over the next 2 months if they pull their finger out hopefully !!!

Cheers

Lozza

Geezus Lozza, don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen. "2 Months????" You're optimistic. I heard that one of the cranes had broken down over the last 21 days and that they had been doing the core pour by wheel barrow.

Geezus Lozza, don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen. "2 Months????" You're optimistic. I heard that one of the cranes had broken down over the last 21 days and that they had been doing the core pour by wheel barrow.

Actually always wondered why grocon have only two cranes on such a big project. Assumed it was something to do with pneumatics in the "breakthrough technology" of the enclosed dual floorplate system, but the pace of construction there is certainly not matching the company's rhetoric. anyone know ? Cheers Bronte

but the pace of construction there is certainly not matching the company's rhetoric. anyone know ?

Hey, my money's on the wheelbarrow theory ... sure bet :okay: ;)

Eureka is looking very tall!

I heard that one of the cranes had broken down over the last 21 days and that they had been doing the core pour by wheel barrow. Both cranes could break down and the concrete will continue to flow at least until they run out of reo.Thats the beauty of concrete pumps not often you have to use the kibble anymore for cores or slabs,frees the crane up for all the other shit.

Eureka is looking very tall!

Eureka is very tall.

Hey, this new avatar looks alright, doesn't it ? :runaway:

Someone should get down to Kings Way and Sturt St/Road (whatever it is). Eureka is right in the middle and Melbourne looks HUUUGE.

do you think it will be this tall? or higher maybe?

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid124/pdad79788784a952710b0f17fca8ac42c/f81d5228.jpg

edited, i changed it, thinned it, added height and FWP.

In todays Age, Union Office has been "bugged" with listening devices by unknown parties. Ha Ha Ha, that certainly won't speed things along.
Hey Bronteboy, there is only two cranes there because it is a really small job in terms of footprint and there can only be so many cranes before they start to slow each other down by getting in each others way.
From my experience, there wouldn't be a wheelbarrow even on the top deck for concrete, why would there be with two cranes and a satelite pump???? The only time a wheelbarrow would be used for concrete is onto a loading bay to fill up stressing pockets or other penetrations below the reach of the pump and cranes on lower floors than the top deck.

Hey Bronteboy, there is only two cranes there because it is a really small job in terms of footprint and there can only be so many cranes before they start to slow each other down by getting in each others way.

I bow to experience Favco750: but I like cranes, and want to see more of 'em. And hey, look at the amount of excitement the core lift has generated on this and the project thread after the 27-day drought ! With E and FWP-1 et al, the next 18 months are going to be fantastic on the Melbourne forum. :dance:

ummm, this is the project thread. The other i meant was Collin's 'Eureka with Spires' on Melbourne forum: terrific 3rd-shot render there of E from Fed Square side of Princes Bridge. :cheers:

adapted from Cul's render

http://server4.vnpages.net/~one/misc/f81d5228.jpg

yep, that looks more natural: further to Favco's post, The Age reports that workers have walked out until Tuesday as a result of a bugging device being found in a union officials meeting room. :no:

I can still make out the You Yangs to the right, on the horizon from Eureka, although I dunno that we'll still be able to see the Jetstar planes taking off from Avalon :)

Taken today:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/haksoz/Images/27.06.04/EurekaPano2.jpg
http://members.optusnet.com.au/haksoz/Images/27.06.04/P6261337.JPG
http://members.optusnet.com.au/haksoz/Images/27.06.04/P6261356.JPG

Gee Cul,

Soon Eureka will be making core rises where Q1 never will.


:laugh:

Hi All, from long-term (since the very beginning of the first hole!) viewer. I've heard an interesting muttering that I trust is simply an urban myth. The story goes that there was an alignment problem with the lift shaft of between 9cm and .9m (depending on who's telling the story). This misalignment means that since lifts can't go around corners, some residents will have to take two lifts to get to their level, one to the level of misalignment and then a second to travel beyond. It all sounds like a load of twaddle to me but I thought I'd throw it out there and see if anyone else has heard the same or similar.

To my mind it goes into the same category as the one about how Rialto started to lean so they had to fill half of one level of carpark with concrete to balance it........wha???

Awesome pics Hacksaw love all three of them, gee Eureka is lookg HUUUUGE. With regards to Phantoms suggestions that the core is out of alignment, if this is the case wont they just make the lifts 9ml smaller so they done have to change, surely this problem can be easily overcome with new guiderails etc.

Phantom, if it was an urban myth, that might be the reason for the bug in the union office. The story you speak of was no urban myth. The outcome may not be as dramatic as two lift trips, but if you go back through this thread far enough, you will see reports of this from a fairly long time ago.

However, it is probably old news now and the problem will have been rectified ten times over and the current process of building looks good and you can guarantee the most pressing issue there at the moment is getting a good pest controller to get rid of all the bugs.

Will the misplaced white panel be removed?

Nagelxin ,

I would say that once Eureka Towers glass is fully fitted , then they will go back and swap the incorrect glass panels over so the pattern is rectified. :rock:

Cheers :cheers:

Lozza :rock:

Some freshies from a Darkalicious Melbourne today..

Isn't this first pic almost surreal?? Like Eureka has been cut and pasted in some silly over-sized render on top of those little buildings in the foreground.. ???

http://users.bigpond.net.au/speckled10/Eureka/DSC00804.jpg

Here's the Shiny Silvery Long bit on the podium - looks nice and steely up close!

http://users.bigpond.net.au/speckled10/Eureka/DSC00805.jpg

Not bad for a second skyline:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~naharrison/eureka web.jpg

Great Pics Grollo & A-Brain !

cheers

Lozza :rock:

Great pics gents, but the podium treatment is getting on my nerves - there's no sense of stability and permanence that we saw with Republic Tower - that metallic bit on the podium reminds me of corrugated iron sheeting FFS! It's no Fed Square, baby!

Blabby quote- 'its no Fed square"!!
thanks christ for that!!!!
lol

Quote: " Not bad for a second Skyline " :rock:

Hey CUL , its almost looking like North Sydney Ey ! hehehe ! :rock:

Well , maybe not quite that dense ! hehe ! :bash:

Cheers :drunk:

Lozza :rock:

Lozz,

When the E, PWC and FP are completed, Southbank will shit all over North Sydney.

Gday Richo ,

In height maybe , but sertainly not density ! I just got back from there 2 months ago and i tell ya , Nth Sydney is Dense !

Cheers :rock:

Lozza

Question: Do people really count Southbank a second skyline? I've always just considered it an expansion of the CBD.

Its not an expansion of the CBD as its not considered a business district where the core business operations of the day take place.

Thats a very interesting point Meldon. I don't know what people might think of Southbank. I guess the same coudl be said about St Kilda Rd.

I have never thought about it, but I would consider it seperate to the CBD as I do St Kilda Rd.

Maybe we have 3 CBDs!

I really mean just in terms of the skyline, rather than the activities taking place in each area. I see Southbank + CBD as the one mass of scrapers, hence the one skyline. St Kilda Rd on the other hand is quite distinct from the CBD/Southbank mass of scrapers.

Gday ,

I would class southbank as a seperate skyline actually. The Yarra River kind of makes it feel seperated fromthe actual CBD, which is good , as Melbourne appears to have 4 clusters of skyscrapers now . The CBD, Southbank , Docklands and St. Kilda Road :rock:

Cheers

Lozza

As far as clusters go I'd actually split it into CBD East, CBD West, Docklands & Southbank
Only from the north/west and from a decent distance do the two CBD skylines really become one

I know with a few of the new developments StKilda Rd will start making more of an impact but I don't think it really sticks out as a skyline from anywhere

Gday Richo ,

In height maybe , but sertainly not density ! I just got back from there 2 months ago and i tell ya , Nth Sydney is Dense !

Cheers :rock:

Lozza

In height, I'd say Southbank alone will be right up there with the major cities.

In regard to Sydney, I regard the whole of Sydney, Milsons Pt, Nth Sydney, Kings X, Eastern Sydney and Redfern as one single continous skyline, as there are no significant breaks. Same with the Melbourne skyline, i certainly do not regard southbank or St Kilda rd as separate skylines! They all are one continuous skyline! IMO the only city in Australia which has multiple skylines is Sydney, with Chatswood, St Leonards, Parramatta, Bondi Jctn etc... which are all geographically separated (by kilometers) from any other skyline.

In fact SydneyDude Melbourne attempted a bit of a separate sub-skyline in south yarra (ch 10 hqs), but the plan to build a canal city there went broke, as I recall.

There is now no significant seperation between the CBD, Southbank, St. Kilda Road and Docklands.

Between the CBD and Southbank is the Yarra River which isn't really that wide, only a line on the map divides Southbank from St. Kilda Road and there will be no gap at all between Docklands and the CBD.

When viewed from somewhere like Port Melbourne they all merge into one glorious skyline :-)

Crane Rise today so expect a pour mid next week..

And yeah - really your clutching at spanners calling Southbank a separate skyline - from virtually any angle it's pretty much continous (no more of a gap than say the East & West end of CBD).

St.Kilda Rd is a bit more of a grey area - though I'm just about willing to grant the RDT centered cluster a 'skyline' on it's own much as North Sydney is since there is a distinct gap between it and the CBD.

But the G makes a good point too!!

As lozza would say 'It's all a bit of carry on.. it's all good!!!'

i agree abrain, Southbank now is part of the CBD, as with Docklands. Melbourne is just expanding engulfing anything in its path!lol
Even St Kilda rd seems like a breakaway part of CBD.
Yarra is only 50m wide compared to Sydney harbour which is 500m at narrowest, so Sth bank really is close to the CBD, much more so then Sydney is to North Sydney.

Actually CuL I think the Yarra is more like 70 - 80m wide, I remember a few years back (I think it was on the footy show) a few players tried a couple of torps (if ya don't follow AFL don't worry...) to see if they could make it from one bank to another and they failed!

Anyhow, yeah I pretty much agree that Southbank has pretty much 'merged' with the CBD. As already said, it now looks like another cluster of scrapers in the CBD.

Howdy guys ..... I am new to this caper, and have finally decided to join in after enjoying reading your posts over the last year or so - just one query that you experts may be able to answer: In the Gold Coast forum on this site a courier mail news article has been posted re Q1. It talks about the Q1 height vs Eureka's height etc ... the reporter describes the Q1 as "Australia's highest structure' when completed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the Omega tower in Gippsland, Vic still hold that title? Thanks.

Howdy guys ..... I am new to this caper, and have finally decided to join in after enjoying reading your posts over the last year or so - just one query that you experts may be able to answer: In the Gold Coast forum on this site a courier mail news article has been posted re Q1. It talks about the Q1 height vs Eureka's height etc ... the reporter describes the Q1 as "Australia's highest structure' when completed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the Omega tower in Gippsland, Vic still hold that title? Thanks.

The Omega tower will be the tallest non self supporting sturcture. It is held up with guy ropes. Q1 will be the tallest 'self supporting' structure! However not the tallest building to roof!! :)

you want some core?

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~wadad/mypic113.JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~wadad/mypic114.JPG

hard core, baby! yeah!
amazing you can see right through to govt house!

thanks blabbyboy! i wish they had better optics in the observation deck any tips for taking shots through these things? they seem really white but i didnt touch em up

any one got close ups like this and fwp from the last year? this was my first time up rialto

Not sure what level the plates are up to on the western side but I saw what looked to be a bit of pouring going on from my vantage point in the city today (approx. 12.45pm)

cop that!

can't beat winter sunshine

http://silvermb.thehoddlegrid.net/eka200407.jpg

Looks like a core pour today.. the arm was raised anyway even though I didn't see any actual pouring during 11-1pm when going around city..

Now lets see if there isn't a 10-day bloody wait for the next rise!

^^^ stunning :)

^^^^

Great Snaps Silver MB ! :rock: :banana2: :rock: :banana2:

Lozza :lock:

PS~ Silver MB , Ladies And Gentleman ! Silver ....... MB ! :horse: :horse:

wow! hang on how come its only 210m and it looks SO TALL?? i can imagain when E reaches 300m!!!! it will look bloody awesome!
keep piccies coming guys!!

SilverMB you have made my day mate. I cannot think of any way that this tower could be made anymore intimidating and beautiful than what it is turning out to be like. I love the way the darker Melbourne light plays with the glass, makes it look like something out of Gotham city. This thing will be sending shivers down Sydney's spine in 6 months time !!!!!!!!

Nice shots Marko.

As Cul said earlier, it will look awesome and very tall when complete.

Can anyone photoshop these brilliant SilverMB pics so that we can get an idea of what the top part of the tower will look like WITHOUT the square bits on the sides? ie just leaving the "wedgie" bit in the centre...?

wow! hang on how come its only 210m and it looks SO TALL?? i can imagain when E reaches 300m!!!! it will look bloody awesome!


Re pics no 3,4, and 6 ...

Look. I've said it before and I'll say it again. When you look at this thing in 6 months time, you'll sit on your bum, your legs will stick out, your toes will curl up, and this big boy will knock ya FARKING SOCKS OFF!!!

We can see now what a "big bastard " the big E will be.

I reckon by Easter next year itll be just bout finished. Externally.

Based on past calcs it wont be topped out by Xmas.

Its got 25 floors to go and 25 weeks to go and its never been a 1 week per floor job. Last calcs where 1.7 weeks per floor.

Unless they hurry the fuck up of course.

Unless they hurry the fuck up of course.

maybe they get paid by the hr :)

How long before we see the change in the floor plates? Surely it's got to be soon, as the plates are almost up to the core reconfiguration point.

I came on today expecting news and fearing the worst: anyone know what the big flag flying off the Eureka crane cable is about ???Can't make out what it is from my distance, but hope there is not a big stoppage starting.

im guessing greek flag...

yes maybe. thought of that but didn't look blue and white. hope yr right

Bronte what 'news' were you expecting and what was the 'worse' you were fearing??

The flag is a big mother Grocon flag but not sure if it has anything to do with industrial issues - though I must say the QV site looked a bit dead today (but everything was active yesterday)..

It looks so narrow from certain angles. It will look so damn tall from these same angles when at it's completed height. Quite amazing.

It looks like the red concrete pouring arm is moving around in the core again today . I would say this is the official core pour. Although, it looks to me like it is only going to rise one level this time as the crane has only gone up half way. :rant: :bash:

cheers

lozza :lock:

still at 63

was in fed square again this morning, and that red pouring arm up top looked very connected, so we might get movement later today, but we've been let down before.
Almost certainly a pour going on at E&Y, anway.
may i just say that i look forward immensely to the outbursts of full moon frenzy that now accompanies each Eureka rise on this site, and will be listening out for any howling later tonight.

Fark, what a view:
http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/8212/101688212ml1088992128.jpg

Shit yeah!

Im guessing thats from one of the two Meburnian towers on St Kida Rd

Cheers

Dean - Melbourne

8 On Dorcas ;)

Oh dear. Just back from a quick trip around the world on SSC.com, which ended up in the Disneyland of Skyscrapers - Dubai ... bunch of arabs sitting around poster models of Burj Dubai stuck up in sand. And what do I find here? The night is silent, no howling to moon over another Eureka core rise .Still, there are compensations -a nice new Tayser skyline pic from a very comfy aparto, and its good to be back in dear old Melb., where it all makes sense at least. I make the last E rise to have been on June 24, so i hope they don't keep us all pent up too long...

heres a shot from yesterday

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~wadad/mypic117.jpg

SO many more levels to go, and its already so huge!

heres a shot from yesterday



oWwoooooooooooo !

That's a whole lotta pourin goin on...

Nice work plotty..

SHIT from grollo's shot its going to look so so big both way ie. tall and fat!!!

Is that the the actual concrete falling 5 or 6 metres from the top of the red thing into the core?

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~wadad/mypic117.jpg

or is that just a pipe?

Bloody hell, you're observant. That's a fair question.

Is that the the actual concrete falling 5 or 6 metres from the top of the red thing into the core?

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~wadad/mypic117.jpg

or is that just a pipe?
NO its about a 6in rubber hose

NO its about a 6in rubber hose
but it's pouring concrete, yeah?

but it's pouring concrete, yeah?
Yep!Not sure what model placement boom it is,schwing,putzmeister or 1 of the dozen or so other brands on the market but depending on the pump could be good for anything from 15 to 150 cubic meters an hour

whos betting on a rise on monday or tues???

What I find amazing is how they get the bloody concrete all the way up to the top! Can't imagine the amount of pressure it would take to get it up there! Anyways, took this pic while I was in the city today. Bit crappy but it's my daughters digicam and the zoom aint that crash hot :D

edit: oops sorry! wrong pic. Here's our big E

http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~ciaobella/Scott/bige110704.jpg

that ant big e!

that ant big e!

BHP HQ @ QV - a pissant 43 levels pffft.

BHP HQ @ QV - a pissant 43 levels pffft.
It's not that either, it's the new QV apartments (BHP is behind).

Nice line up:
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~naharrison/eureka fwp web.jpg

WHEN are they going to fix that misplaced panel on the eastern side of Eureka? Now i've noticed it, it's sooo distracting. The other day on the tram a passenger pointed it out to a friend as we were passing over the Princes Bridge, so it must be obvious even to the non-skyscraper fanatics.

I'll be in such a rutt if its just left there.

http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/6308/101706308bl1089522821.jpg

how good would it be to let CE do a 120-130m job in between those two "condo" towers in the foreground - along City Road.

however... CE... hrmm

:)

didnt you know that glass panel is staying there forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so give up its meant to be like that : P

^^ nooooooooo!

Core rise this arvo.. 64 was being exposed around 4pm .. hopefully they'll squeeze in 65 expose as well by evening..

Wait till tomorrow to find out final result but after full rise will be about 216.5m above ground!

glad to know abrain is on the ball as usual! but how?

Blast Abrain ! u beat me too it ! :banana2: :banana:

At least there wasn't the huge delay this time like there was last time WITH THE CORE RISE! :rock: :rant: :rock: :rant:

cheers

andy :lock:

Let me make this common, fun and predictable comment:
Gee!!! the Eureka is starting to look huge!!!!

wow that was quick! So now there will be a ten floor gap between the reconfig and the core box! Its gettin there, slowly but surely!

U know what the scary thing is.... there is 26 floors to go...

I could be wrong, but is the cladding going up slowly as well today? I thought that I saw some crane action at lunchtime...

since lsswebcam is now focused down on a boring intersection, we need photos!!!
this is only webcam left from omni cam atop 101 collins.
tken this morning!
http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/culwulla/eurekajuly14.jpg

It is now Melbournes 4th tallest (to roof)
Rialto-251m
Bourke Place-224m
120 Collins-220m
Eureka-216.5m (July14) UC
Melbourne Central-211m

On comparison to Australia's tallest its currently equal with Chifley Tower in Sydney (to roof) or 8th tallest!

Australia's tallest to roof-TOP 10

Rialto-251m
World Tower-230m
MLC-228m
GPT-227m
central park-226m
Bourke Place-224m
120 Collins-220m
EUREKA-216.5m (lev65,July14) UC
Chifley Tower-216m
Bankwest-214m

And after 2 more core rises , it will be pretty much equal with World Tower , (230 m) making it the 2nd highest to the roof in australia.

Then , there is still 10 core rises to go ! :banana2: :rock:

Cheers

Lozza :lock:

And after 2 more core rises , it will be pretty much equal with World Tower , (230 m) making it the 2nd highest to the roof in australia.

Then , there is still 10 core rises to go ! :banana2: :rock:

Cheers

Lozza :lock:
i think next rise will make it 222.9m and next rise after that 229.3m. So the rise after that, it will surpass WT at 235.7m. Eureka rises are equal to 6.4m.

I, along with the rest of the sydney forumers, are savouring the last few weeks of World Tower being number 1 resi! Coz in 3 rises time, that title will be lost forever :'(

3 rises = apprx 6 weeks or early Sept??

& In 6 rises time from now, it will reach 254.9 metres , eclipsing the Rialto and taking the crown of highest skyscraper to the roof in Australia ! :banana: :cucumber: :banana2: :horse: :rock:

Cheers :cheers:

Lozza :lock:

can't have everything Sydneydude.
cheers

6 rises , say 2-3 weeks each rise , or 12-18 weeks depending on speed or say 4months or Novemberish?

Yeah , it will be a big party when eureka eclipses rialto ! :banana: :banana2:

Cheers

Lozza :lock:

i was a richmond train station and its funny to here people say

"wow look at that tall building"

i think next rise will make it 222.9m and next rise after that 229.3m. So the rise after that, it will surpass WT at 235.7m. Eureka rises are equal to 6.4m.

6.5m cul - each floor in the resi section is 3.25m according to the plans.. but yeah small change..

Also wait for the big run home in the final stories where Level 82-88 are all 3.5m each (so 7m per rise!!) to really bring home the bacon..

Yeah It's been said but even at 216.5m it's starting to look scary tall from many angles such as South Eastern Fwy driving in at night tonight..

I used to park my car on that empty block that Eureka now stands. I remember thinking why don't they build something significant on that urine-stenched, muddy, god-forsaken piece of land! :bow:

Today.. A-brain's traffic light action :D

http://users.bigpond.net.au/speckled10/Eureka/DSC00822.jpg

A-brain has to take this bloody pic from further and further back after each rise.. only a year ago I was taking it from the next set of lights closer up!

Soon I'll be taking it from Port Phillip Bay !!

^^

You either have a sunroof or a very clean windscreen! How many round-the-blocks did you do before you got a red-light? Great shot A-brain!

wow eureka is starting to look tall!!!!

man.. have a look at all those fuck ups on PWC's glass. are they dumb or what??

lol. at the NSW number plates.

Cheers

Dean - Melbourne

man.. have a look at all those fuck ups on PWC's glass. are they dumb or what??

lol. at the NSW number plates.

Cheers

Dean - Melbourne

Its actually quite lucky that A-brain caught a NSW plate. When I was down in Melbourne I was actually looking for them and they were very rare to come across, compared to here in Sydney where Vic number plates are alot more common. Duno why? Maybe Syd is closer to the border

How many round-the-blocks did you do before you got a red-light? Great shot A-brain!None, if your on or around City Road....always a good vantage.

Poor old beige office building looking redundant against the new talls.

LOL @ Dean. Yeah, it's really noticeable (and strange).