Since I see this construction every day, I can see that it's construction is well on it's way. Infact today there are 2 cranes on site and a heap of workers too.

Does anyone have any renders of this???

And now the cranes are gone????? They were big truck one's nothing too exciting I guess. There is still heaps of workers though

Where is this building? Details?

Kasey

Basically the old 13 level ETSA building in adelaide is being reconstructed into a 15 level apartment building, the most exclusive in Adelaide (each room has plasma screens and built in bose surround sound systems for starters!!)
It will be 55m tall and finished 2004, me thinks

I am looking for renders now!

Is this the old ETSA bldg on Glen Osmond Road? With 13 levels to 15, does this mean a rise of two, or are they doing it some other way?

Cheers,

Kasey

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dam it would be lound living next door if they have a bose sound system !! thats sure to create tension, it would bad enough with neighbours in the suburbs having good TV other than sharing the same walls !!!

It's the building on Greenhill road, they are going to add two penthouse levels to the top. Gordon Pickard who has now bought it want's to make it the most exclusive address in adelaide, bar none!!!

Sorry Pikey, but I only have a picture of the failed Grollo proposal from a few years back.

I don't think the new developers have released a rendering, of their vision for the old ETSA building.

any pix guys of its progress?? anything?

No progress so far. It's still a 12 level empty shell currently.

Haven't they been planning to convert the ETSA building into a residential building for 10 years now?

There is definatley progress hapening. More internal structuring is being added. I see this building every single day!

Will, I'd like to see a render of the failed grollo proposal!

They're now in the process of assembling a huge fuck off black crane as we speak!

Here's a picture of the failed Grollo proposal:


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid41/pf4b0bc8a75e5893a3f730e8669cf439c/fcf88199.jpg

The crane that has arrived is huuuuge! There are other smaller one's onsite now too

The site is a buzz of activity. There are trucks, cranes excavation equipment all on sire now. PT Building services are incharge of construction. At the moment a lot of debris is being cleared. I saw when I was walking back to work the other day a large structural piece was being raised to the roof. I was taling to a worker there and he said a tower crane will be placed at the back of the building.

I went past this building a few days ago, and it looks like a skeleton.

Most of the walls and internal structures have been removed, leaving only the structural skeleton.

Temporary fencing has been placed inside the building. Since the building is a skeleton, I'd hate to think of the vertigo you could get looking straight down from 13 levels with no barrier at all!!!

A smaller, second crane has arrived too

Update for youse. The southern side is getting a large "channel" dug into it. Judging by the width it almost looks like they are preparing for the life core to be placed there.
A temporary elevator is in place and it is all go!

You're right pikey. It made the 10 news today.

Here is some renderings I found off the official site of Air Apartments, there will be more coming as soon as I find more.
http://www.airapartments.com.au/images/shots/shotA_800.jpg
http://www.airapartments.com.au/images/shots/shotC_800.jpg

There is some extra information about Air Apartments as well. It will have 141 apartments, it will be completed by 2005, and apartments will be on sale from October in 2004.

The website is http://www.airapartments.com.au/ . There is a video which shows all 360 degrees of the building under the section named Air Apartments.

What a fucking awesome view of the skyline!!!!

It's taken 12 years to get this far
by Laura Anderson

Finally something is happening.

For more than 12 years, 220 Greenfill Road has been an empty shell.

Riddled by asbestos and the subject of several failed developments, an $83 million development of the Eastwood site is finally under way by South Australian developers the Pickard Group.

"It has had a bit of history and the timing has been perfect for us," Pickard Group spokesman Stephen Norris said.

"There is a lot of support from Adelaide people who are very glad to see that something is actually happening. It has been a shell for 12 years."

The former ETSA building has been a "white elephant" and was purchased by Pickard Group in August after the shareholders of previous shareholders went broke.

Price tags for the new AIR Apartments range from $275,000 for a two-storey home office apartment on the ground floor to more than $2 million for one of six two-storey luxury penthouses.

Described by the Pickard Group as "Jetsons-like", the AIR Apartments are fitted with all the latest technological features -
One Bang & Olufsen remote that controls all lighting, heating and cooling, curtains, security cameras and appliances.
Dial-in facilities so residents can use their mobile phone to operate appliances.
Fridges that reorder food when supplies run low.

"Much of the technology available has never been available before in Adelaide and in some cases Australia, and it is all being managed here from South Australia," Mr. Norris said.

Buyers - from Adelaide, Sydney and Perth - have placed holding deposits on 65 of the 141 apartments which are being released to the public today.

"It's the chance to swap a substantial home in Toorak Gardens or Leabrook and move closer to the city while maintaining the lifestyle," Mr. Norris said.

Completion is expected in early 2005 with sales through Brock Real Estate.

The picture that was included in today's Advertiser was stunning!

The new proposal is a million times better than the failed Grollo proposal of 1999.

The new design is extremelly modern in apperance whilst retaining some elegance.

I have another rendering of the building on my computer, and will upload as soon as tomorrow.

It looks very similar to 223 North Terrace!!!

I work right near the site and can see it all the time. They have placed 2 massive banners on the building. The place is buzzing! I think that these are the best designs for any apartment in Adelaide so far, judging by the renders

http://www.airapartments.com.au/views/11NW.jpg

With views like this.... who could resist?

Spoke to a guy on site today, and a tower crane will be on site soon. A big and angry bitch.........god I'm tired

Man are they stripping the hell out of it!! Most of the bricked walls are gone!!! It actually makes it look larger, surprisingly. New signage is up, and over 30 people are on site, according to the site manager

Construction photos on their way!!

heres construction pic numero uno

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid69/p741af102a88650c7dcec4120511a4639/fba505da.jpg

You can see how they are stipping back to bare structural, the brick work is going bye bye!!

More to come

Cul, you can whack this on SS.com if you wish!

More pics from lunch

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid70/p0baaad2922369f661859ee7990a87998/fba4cc2c.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid70/pcc6038db42a75363badc55ca973bc3f3/fba4cc32.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid70/p57a817ff5e8a153f4ebffef854e5ef4f/fba4cc37.jpg

It's all good. I'll keep the images coming once more major shit starts happening!!
Once again, Cul, you can use these on SS.com

:)

Should these go on SS.com??

Originally posted by pikey

Should these go on SS.com??


YES

Open plan living.

Pikey: In that first pic, are you levitating a few metres off the ground or are you just really tall? :)

Yeah, my nickname is shaq!!

I took that photo fom my office! Nice way to keep people updated!

great i put a couple on ss.com.
so i understand this is an existing bldg and its being converted?

Originally posted by CULWULLA
great i put a couple on ss.com.
so i understand this is an existing bldg and its being converted?

Yes, with an extra 2 levels built on top of it.

This isn't really noticeable from Greenhill Road, but they are also extending the back. This can be seen from Fullarton and Glen Osmond Roads.

Originally posted by CULWULLA
great i put a couple on ss.com.
so i understand this is an existing bldg and its being converted?

Thanks for putting these on SS.com Cul, but my name is Daniel Pike not Adam Pike!!!

Originally posted by pikey
Thanks for putting these on SS.com Cul, but my name is Daniel Pike not Adam Pike!!!

LOL!

This town ain't big enough for the two of us. :D

More pics to come - a shitload of scaffolding is being assembled as we speak

As promised!

Since these were taken that scaffolding has been completed on the eastern side.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid71/p6adaf92fb2d3f14c013762deb6aca61e/fb8e8ec8.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid71/p7804f59934f706e9461e76c9b3d0e945/fb8e8ec3.jpg

:)

The lift core is flying up!!! I'm going to go take a pic of it now

MORE PICS

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid71/pe5cdea46cad35e589152cf9c5285050a/fb8b7fca.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid71/p991c273a38028ab12a49651db451b067/fb8b7fd5.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid71/p74eb25fcccf295f59b5cdd132b7ce100/fb8b7fda.jpg

You can see the core being built

From today, 10 minutes ago!!!

As you can see the stripping is going along at a very rapid pace!!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid75/pfc8c58d4ce1a52e1fd8060570a70ecc2/fb4fc896.jpg

Bit of a close up

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid75/pca784f86d52505cfe62e541099199c57/fb4fc888.jpg

:)

Sparky sparky!!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid75/p5b24a45b62ecc0df4a59e14d4764bb75/fb4fa1d3.jpg

Am I the only one interested in this project???

Originally posted by pikey
Am I the only one interested in this project???

I'm sure as hell not interested in it :) sorry pikey lol

I guess cos it's so close to work and I see it all the time. Oh well!

I'm more interested in the plans for the water tower in Norwood at the moment as I'm still snooping around trying to find something about it (with no such luck). :D

Bump,

So my shots don't go down the same place skyscrapercity gets it's ememas', and no I'm talking about Fabian's place............

is that un upgrade of an old office building...

Originally posted by chrisaus
is that un upgrade of an old office building...

Yes, empty for a decade or so.

Her's an image of what Air Apartments will look like once work is complete:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid83/pa9011a9708b528fe49b11ccc0f152c94/fae60152.jpg

If anyone's interested at all (doubt it) but 3 levels of scaffolding have been assembled on the eastern side of the tower. Excavating for the carpark at the opposite side is going hard.

Originally posted by pikey
If anyone's interested at all (doubt it) but 3 levels of scaffolding have been assembled on the eastern side of the tower. Excavating for the carpark at the opposite side is going hard.

My interest will pick up once they start building the new facade.

Pikester, how's it coming along?

I'll get a pic tommorow, but basically........

The new sales/display office is just about finished, the new external structures are up to level 4, and the internal walls separating the apartments are taking shape. There is some deep excavations finishing up on the southern side of the building. Both of the transportable cranes are gone, does that mean a tower crane cannot be far away???

Okay pikey, i'm interested i'm interested! Pics!!!! :)

Yobster, I promise I'll get some shots for you tommorow!! I've got the old man's digi cam back and I'll take some snaps tommorow lunch time - promise!

Ok everyone (Yobster) here are some pic taken just then, 20 mintues ago!

Firstly the new info centre and the scaffolding, which is racing up, up to level 4 so far
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p36c3dcd78770da83a864c8ef5c0d3b60/fa85ef60.jpg
The before mentioned info centre - worth a looksy
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p3d77652ff3538624121a465fa3382ac9/fa85ef56.jpg
You can see in this pic how they are now dividing up the rooms, making walls and so forth, the aircon is also being put in too
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pd66475a45c9e75e24ec69cdb792a41f0/fa85ef4b.jpg
Yeah, more scaffolding, and preston bins - WOW
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p75f13dcf138f94c9155ad2c169aee5aa/fa85ef41.jpg
Talk about stripping the fuck out of it!!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p2c9805f3e48c20a60c8dcdd4b6f9c7ea/fa85ef38.jpg
Imagine another 2 levels on top, bit of a decent height
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p98bd0b015c77e96bfbcda5b28827f963/fa85ef32.jpg

There we go!! We are actually moving our offices in 2 weeks so getting shots of this won't be as easy, but, the new office, the view, my god! I can see the bad boy santos from my window!!!

Effort pikey, thanks :okay:

Adelaide United on top of the world

To celebrate the efforts of the Adelaide United Football Club this season, Club Patron Mr. Gordon Pickard has arranged for the Adelaide United players to attend the launch of the AIR Apartments.

The Air Apartments is one of Gordon Pickard’s new projects located at Greenhill road Eastwood.

The players will be photographed on the top floor of the highly successful luxury AIR Apartments building to celebrate the two stunning victories against Victorian opposing teams South Melbourne and Melbourne Knights. The two victories have set up United for a highly likely place in the NSL finals.

Coach John Kosmina will be joined by captain Aurelio Vidmar and Richie Alagich, David Terminello, Ross Aloisi, Michael Valkanis, Freddy Agius, Shane Thompson, Goran Lozanovski, Shane Smeltz and Michael Brooks.

The most recent pic by AtD:
http://www.photoadelaide.com/gal/2004/09/33_std.jpg

Has anyone else managed to take any other pics of the redevelopment going on?

No recent pics. I'll try and get one soon. The "blade" is being clad now. If you look at if from the back (southern side) the glass used is very reminicent of Q1. I think this one will turn out quite a looker!

Absolutely top photo mate :okay: Great vantage point to get a snap of the finished product in a few months (...nudge nudge wink wink)

Well, more and more of the scaffolding is coming off revealing some awesome coloured sections. This tower is turning out brilliantly, it will look awesome once finished. The blade and extra 2 levels really gives it some height. The glass cladding is very simular to Q1, an opaque green. Looking farken awesome!

this has been going on for ages, I remeber early last year being in Adelaide and seeing it starting and its still not completed. In Dubai we build on average 60 stories in a year and here they cant refurb 12 in 2 years. Seems odd or is it just me!!!!!

woo.

http://smicik.customer.netspace.net.au/air15december2004-1.jpg

woo.

http://smicik.customer.netspace.net.au/air15december2004-2.jpg

That looks cool as.

http://smicik.customer.netspace.net.au/air15december2004-3.jpg

It looks Yarra's Edgish. It's also pretty sizable when you look at it. And I must be fucken crazy, because I walked from North Terrace to look at... a building. Those fluro things are giving me the shits, but the rest of the building rubs me the right way. The AGL office next door has bloody hotties everywhere.

I'm completely with you, the building looks very nice apart from those fluoro bits, especially the yellow-green. Hopefully some more colour will play it down a bit
thanks for the pics

I was going to say the same thing Yob, very Melbournish...

Easily the best development at the mo, in my opinion. How refreshing to see a hi-rise in Adelaide with some fucking colour!!

I think when those large box things are constructed on the top, it'll balance out the colourful bits in the middle of it. HEre's hoping the glass inside those yellow square things is a nice deep blue.

This thing looks friggin rad.

Absolutely love it.

Think it will be the best new building in the city when complete.

I agree guys very melbournish....

definitely I think the fluoro bits will look far better when the rest of the colour is added

http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/5051/102045051ml1100840413.jpg

...nice view. I'll nab that penthouse at the top right thankyou very much

http://smicik.customer.netspace.net.au/13.jpg

I also agree with everyone, this is definately the most sylish development in Adelaide at the moment. This development has turned one of Adelaide's most bland/ugly buildings into a modern, stylish apartment complex, Adelaide can be proud of.

this is my first visit to this forum and i have to say it's great to see some energy and money being put into the redesigning of such an ugly eyesore, notwithstanding its on again, off again construction history.

Still loving this one:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/Air1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/Air2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/Air3.jpg

starting to look very slick. To think this was an eyesore for so long...

i love the building and the cube top sections although i do detest the colours of the walls, could do with some more earthy natural colours than all that pink blue green shit.

good work adelaide, oh and i do agree with that uy saying how it takes dubai ppl 1 year to do 60 floors and us adelaidians 2 years to do 12... gotta speed up people or does everyone really have athritis here... oooowwww i know i do.

Great photos! this is turning into a great looking building, it reminds of the modern buildings of Melbourne.

From yesterday:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/8-5-05017.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/8-5-05018.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/8-5-05019.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/8-5-05020.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/8-5-05021.jpg

LOVE THIS BUILDING!!!

LOVE THIS BUILDING!!!

Me too mate, but I'm surprised that you love this one, but think Place on Brougham's putrid.

Do you reckon they're all that different?

The context of the building means as much to its design as the design itself. Place on Brougham isn't a building for North Adelaide, although it is an improvement on what is there. My opinion will vary over the next couple of years, and i'm expecting the final product to be much better than what we see in the render, owing to how badly over saturated the colours are.

This part of the city (air apartments) offers a lot more potential freedom in future designs. I sure hope something really happens here, it would make a much more interesting gateway to Adelaide from the south east. Perhaps fitting that the route to Melbourne has its own Melbourne like building.

Very Melbourne!

Gotta wonder down there some time.

The context of the building means as much to its design as the design itself. Place on Brougham isn't a building for North Adelaide, although it is an improvement on what is there. My opinion will vary over the next couple of years, and i'm expecting the final product to be much better than what we see in the render, owing to how badly over saturated the colours are.

This part of the city (air apartments) offers a lot more potential freedom in future designs. I sure hope something really happens here, it would make a much more interesting gateway to Adelaide from the south east. Perhaps fitting that the route to Melbourne has its own Melbourne like building.

Can't argue with that.

I'd agree with that too. The Brougham Pl design just doesn't do it for me but Air is looking great :)
great photos too thnx mate

Havent been past it for a while, looking very nice indeed! Certainly much improved on what it used to look like.... :D

Great photos Pants, thanks for sharing.

The buildings looking great, a 1000% improvement over the abandoned ETSA building!

From this morning:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/IMG_0374.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/IMG_0375.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/IMG_0376.jpg

Great job Pants. I hope you get past the airport this weekend for an update on drop off/arrival level ramp.

Thanks Pants. Love this building.

No problem mate. Love it too. Best resi being built at the moment by far.

Kota, I was at the airport on Thursday but without a camera mate. Will be back this week though.

The ramp's well on its way but to be honest, it's a big lump of concrete that detracts from the rest of the building. I'm not sure exactly how funky you can get with ramps, but I think they've taken the cheap and nasty way out with this one and unfortunately it's had a negative effect.

The worst part is the side of the ramp above road level. Surely they could have had it as a mixture of glass and steel (in any possible way that would prevent cars etc going straight over) to allow for some sort of site line to the main building, but they're just dull concrete slabs.

Maybe they'll sex the whole thing up a bit through landscaping...

Sheer brilliance. Hopefully this helps to kickstart some further inner city activity rather than watching all the activity occurring in one or two parts of the city.

this is one of my fav buildings in the city.... i love the square boxes at the top... so innovative

article in the paper today about the completion of the Air Apartments.
first tenants have moved in.

brief description.

- renjuvenation of the former ETSA tower on greenhill road
- 50m tall apartment block of some 300+ apartments
- modern look
- took a long time to redevelop
- first people have moved in in recent days

very funky unit block
pix by pants
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/8-5-05020.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/IMG_0375.jpg

Merge this thread with the other Air Apartments thread and delete this post once done.

Merge this thread with the other Air Apartments thread and delete this post once done.

Yes I know. :)

Seriously people, please don't start new threads when old ones exist.

I was reading in the Saturday Advertiser that this building is actually two separate buildings. The two towers are joind by a glass walkway. I am wondering if someone (Culwulla) could clarify whether Air Apartments is actually one tower or two separate towers?

i apologise for the inconvience, but isnt this building COMPLETED now??? why not change its name to #COMPLETED: Air Apartments......

and its to towers, theres another one at the back of the front one. joined by a number of walkways.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/260805001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/260805003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/260805002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/260805004.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/michaelchristhomas/260805005.jpg

great photos. real inspiration to the city.

whats in that red thing above the drive through? a restaurant?

That is a massive improvement on what it previously was. It reminds me of the Scene Apartments here in Auckland. I think i like it.