Below is the Trianglular Queensland Place site with the Magistrates Court under construction.

http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/1098/1541098ml1037689509.jpg

JayT

great
i hated that massive carpark
actually all that part of town looked shit and cut of from the main part of the city
also do you have any renderings, cause thats one big mumma of a site, and should be filled with several towers
also the ugly escalator to the transit centre needs to go
and also the foodhall area of the trasit centre needs doing up
the roma parklands looked nice but

That Suncorp Metway building with the clock on the top is the ugliest building. That whole side is just concrete and when you are standing at the bottom looking up it looks like the concrete just never stops.

Who in their right mind would design a building where one whole side is concrete. I understand it if another building was going to block the facade, there would be no use to build a facade with detail. But the FACES THE ROAD.

Nice photo, construction is coming along nicely there. It would be so great to see a big tower on that site in the future.

Originally posted by brissyThomas
That Suncorp Metway building with the clock on the top is the ugliest building. That whole side is just concrete and when you are standing at the bottom looking up it looks like the concrete just never stops.

Who in their right mind would design a building where one whole side is concrete. I understand it if another building was going to block the facade, there would be no use to build a facade with detail. But the FACES THE ROAD.

Hey, at least the building has a clock so we know what time the photo was taken! ;)

Seriously though, I hate digital clocks on towers!

Does anyone have a rendering of the Magistrates Court? I don't think I've seen it.

no i love that clock, when i used to go to school at south brisbane i always got the time off that clock

Hey the clock is fine, I was talking about the concrete stump the clock sits on.

Just to refresh everybody's memory......here are the renderings posted originally in the approved / proposed section, the architects are COX Rayner with Ainsley Bell Murchison:
http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/news/images/romast.jpg
http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/news/images/georgeturbot.jpg
http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/news/images/longtitude.jpg

I don't mind it.......pretty clean design, similar in many ways to the 10 year old commonwealth law courts on North Quay, but a bit sharper looking, nice to see some attention to the roof on one of these things:)

My only objection to the design is another bloody pedestrian bridge over roma street (it is cut off in the Roma Street illustration - the pedestrian plaza that ends suddenly on the right side of the pic, but was a full bridge on the model of the Georgian display).......it seems to be a very narrow minded solution to the rest of Queensland Place masterplan (obvoiusly, not much thought has gone into how the rest of the site relates to this - but maybe Brisbane2 can enlighten us??). It is a very 1960's type solution. I would prefer to see a full plaza built out over the road, or pedestrianize roma street more and make it a decent street with lots of crossing opportunities, instead of a service road / freeway that it is at the moment

Bring on the rest of Queensland Place!!!!!!!!

yay, another piece of shit thread for Brisbane.. really this city tries to hard

The back of the MLC building is way fuglier than that Suncorp building.
Concrete, nothing more, nothing less.

Thanks for the pics Fountainhead!

I quite like it - looks like a good quality building built with some nice materials. :)

wow that takes up most the site

though it looks okay, its abit of a waste of such a big site....

well there be another development on the tip of the site near roma station ?

Density Density Density!!!

The way Brisbane is going with all these medium rise buildings throughout the city and suburbs we are going to end up looking like Tokyo or Sao Paulo.

jt

hahahaha:D
your almost there !

I am pretty sure the magistrates building itself only takes up about 1/3 of the site area......it is not a huge building

Actually I remember reading it would actually only take up 25% of the site. It would be nice if Chrisaus knew what he was talking about before he blurted out his statement.s

Why is the site called "Queensland Place"? Was there a tower proposed there years ago that was going to be called Queensland Place or was there a building previously there that was called Queensland Place?

Also, what is going to happen to the old magistrates courts building once this new one is complete? Will it be put to use or be cleared and put up for sale for a potential site for a future scraper?

I believe there were origionally Markets on the site similar the Queen Vic markets in Melbourne. If you look at old pictures you can see the buildings.

Personally I would rather the markets were still there - they are in Rocklea now.

JayT

Thanks JayT for so consistantly putting pictures of Brisbane onto this forum. For a Brisbane boy living overseas it's really great to keep up to date with what is going on. I appreciate it!

I think the Clock tower on the old SGIO is great, but then I like the MLC weather thing as well. There also used to be a big digital clock near the Customs House that you could see along the length of Queens St (pre-Mall days).

Yeah Thanks so much JayT you put so many great pictures on this forum its just so great.....

Anyway hopefully something tall get proposed for Qld Place in a couple of years. It's such a huge site, hopefully its mixed use or office, I would hate another 40-storey residential tower going up here. I'm over residential 40-storey towers.

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That side of the building contains toliets. The line up the middle is the windows in the elevator lobbies.

i know its too late, but, wouldn't it be great if they put in a damn huge square that rivalled the one in moscow and bejing? and build skyscrapers around. It's just such a picturesque site

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Yes it would. And of course sink Turbot and Anne Streets and demolish everything on that block except the State Law Building (Gotham City) - Then we could have a vista to city hall too.
jt

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid53/p8f87e82e67d6f0526d69413db6eae525/fc92cade.jpg.orig.jpg

this is an early proposal for the roma street forum / qld place site....this is about 3 years old I think, and shows the law courts development in a different location, but it does show that they once had a very grand plan for the area

still waiting to see what the government is actually thinking about here!!

I asked my boss about the status of the QLD Place masterplan that we drew up in late 2001. Im happy to say that our masterplan is still being processed and evaluated along with other planning considerations for the whole city west precinct.

This picture was taken on the 16.12.02 so a while ago. It seems to be coming laong really slowly.

http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/news/images/bne_crane.jpg

Finally somthing is being done with the ugly car park.

If the courts only take 25% of the site thouhg, what is to be done with the rest...until development later on (hopefully some huge soaring tower)

Where is the escape route in those pretty renderings:D

Early works have commenced this week for the walk way to link the courts to Roma Street Parklands. The bridge will join the footpath which sits over Roma Street Station.

Do Roma St Parklands exist, or is it still being planned/under construction?

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Roma Street Parklands have been open for about three years now. Queen Elizabeth visited there in 2001

Its a pretty good parkland, holds itself together well, although its connections to the urban fabric are woeful. Its a hard task to reach them

how much is it going to cost to build [$$] ?

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Ignore my earlier comments. The work which they (later on found out it was QR) was work for track replacement....

:mad:

http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/3923/1633923al1052879370.jpg

Sorry about the quality - its all i could find.
jt

Taken today, 13 July

http://home.iprimus.com.au/sdlennon/magistrates1307031.JPG

http://home.iprimus.com.au/sdlennon/magistrates1307032.JPG

Is anyone wondering why there are so many separate circulation cores in the building?

Its because in court buildings there has to be three totally independant circulation systems. One for court staff, one for the public and one for the alleged criminals. Obviously to avoid any potential trouble caused by the chance meeting of perpetrators and victims in the same lift or corridor.

I'll try and get some pics from my the top of Suncorp Plaza, I just have to sweet talk a friend in Property... I'll keep you posted.:D

Second tower crane has been erected on site

Taken 6 September 2003

http://home.iprimus.com.au/sdlennon/magistrate0609031.jpg

What an absolute waste of a great site! I think a park would have been better use. What is the obsession in Brisbane with building Toowoomba grade buildings in the CBD?

i dont mind the design of the building, and quite like the idea of creating a 'legal precinct' on the western edge of the cbd... there are a few great sites left in this area for 150m' ish buildings, so has great potential of what is yet to come... the gorgian would have complemented the area great - ie state law building, hopefully this will be the sort of standard to expect in the future...

This project is really coming along. Far better than Id imagined. Sorry no pics.

The George Street facade is being clad in silver metallic sheeting

Bump!

Another tower that has been serisouly neglected in recent discussions. Haven't seen this one since November. It must be pushing on quite well now. Anyone know what level they are up to?

They have almost topped out...

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid104/p4e294a4ad9a9e1b382abf52ef631ca5b/f99c4f74.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid104/p67bad688f915933183843018b4ec82c2/f99c53c3.jpg


These pics are about two weeks old. Its taken me that long to work out how to get them on here. Thanks CULWULLA, your a legend!!

thanks GMAC:okay:

Yeah good stuff GMAC, it would be great to have an update picture from this angle again, from JayT's original post in this thread.

Are the courts going to be the only building in the traingle, or are there still development places left? Maybe the end bit will become a park?

http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/1098/1541098ml1037689509.jpg

For the moment I think that the courts are the only building on the site, I think at this stage the rest of the site is going to be a carpark (as it was before - just better) - anyone know whether or not that's right?? (You might be right about the park suggestion).

By the way - Great Photos GMAC - the buildings looking quite good!

I think this building looks like a piece of shit now. I had high hopes, but in my opinion, it isn't turning out too well. Hopefully my thoughts will change when it is fully completed.

The cooling towers are now up on the roof. Still no signs of the footbridge to Roma Street...

Originally posted by nagelixin
The cooling towers are now up on the roof. Still no signs of the footbridge to Roma Street...

if you drive by site on roma street side, you can see where the bridge is going to come out of the building, about 2 or third floor.... it looks like it will be quite wide...

Is the contruction of the footbridge part of the project? Or will that area of the building be closed for X amount of months/years until it is built. ??

It can be seen through the taller tower from West End now. Has it topped out?

It can be seen through the taller tower from West End now. Has it topped out?

Drove past there today. Has certainly toppeed out and looks very close to complete.

Here's a couple of photos taken yesterday from the Roma Street/Albert Street side.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/johnthay2/13may04magis1.JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/johnthay2/13may04magis2.JPG

Almost finished. Does anyone know whats happening with the site across the block from this on George street? I think they were going to build the 'Georgian' a few years back and that got canned, Then i think they were going to do some other development, I think that got canned as well. Whats happening with that site? I havent been in bris for a couple of years now so I dont have any clue.

@andy77aus

I posted this two weeks ago in the Brisbane News thread:

Today's City News reports that Ross Neilson Properties are considering options for the old Georgian site. Could include one or two towers on the George Street side with ground level retail and offices or units. Expected total value is $150 million and decision will be made in the next 12 months (!)

They have put the back half of the 5000 square metre block on the market and are expecting its river views will attract a residential developer.

Sounds good, I think 2 towers is the way to go, Its quite a big site and they could maximise profits that way. Its just a question of how much height 150 million can buy?

I remember 5 or 10 years ago they had a proposal for the rennaisance towers on the george street sight, they were going to be high 30 stories or so.

Not much... Austcorp is spending $400 mil on their site...

But then again, Riparian is only around the $150-200 million mark.

hmm... excellent point!

is this due to be put into the completed pile yet?

not just yet. Its still being finished up.

Heres a shot i took not too long ago (a week or 2)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/Blend/brismagistrates.jpg

So its finished hey? Can anyone get any other angles of it? like looking from the Roma street station or something? Id do it myself, but my zoom dosent reach from Asia.
cheers if you can.

Was out and about getting photos yesterday (will start posting soon) - But I forgot to get this one - sorry andy77aus! Will have to do it next time...

Anyone got new pics/news?

Looking at the roof line, if Brisbane ever hosts the olympics they can shove a tub of water out the front and call it the 50 metre platform.

from the 19th of september...

they were finishing it all up, making the garden and public art out the front.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/Blend/courthouse.jpg

hehe I remember dragging JayT (willfully) to the windows of of the lobby @ The State Law Court Building to have a look at some renders of this over 2 years ago.

Even tho' not tall, it has turned out very nicely. Looks cool.

What's it like in the flesh, I mean cladding?

What ever happened to the air bridge to link to Roma Street Parklands?? Was this scrapped from the development?

from the 19th of september...

they were finishing it all up, making the garden and public art out the front.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/Blend/courthouse.jpg

i wonder what that lovely peice of artwork at the front of the courts means..

.. perhaps representative of the hypocricy of law and the way the whole process can be hyjacted by the backlog of paperwork...

^It looks like a roll of toilet paper ready to collect all the shit coming out of lawmakers mouths....

http://www.sayhey.co.uk/invboard/html/emoticons/huh.gif Errr, mmmkay....

...anyway...What's it like in the flesh, I mean cladding?Well, I can see by the big rush that it musn't be much chop. Oh well, looks nice from the pics.

its been 5 months since a photo! lol
is it finished?

it has not been 5 months lol. i gave u one from a month ago.

As i stated, the building is completed as far as i know.. they were planting gardens and doing all that stuff out the front last month.

I would assume you could change it to completed now.

oh ok. your photo isnt showing.photobucket are being silly.
can you post some other way?

i will try now..

http://tinypic.com/enamt

i will try now..

http://tinypic.com/enamt

So thats the piece of art they are calling the "tapeworm", interesting.

Think I'll take the long way home to look at this.
jt

There is a liftout about the Court building in the business section of the Courier Mail today. I think the official opening is this Thursday.

So the Magistrates Court is now done.. so what's going up beside it now.. there is movement with a construction de-mountables going up etc.