We'll keep you updated with some photos of this 19 level building ASAP. Currently, facade work is proceeding on the lower floors, while the upper floors are being constructed.

This is good that we now have a thread to discuss all things Horizon.

I remember taking a pic or two recently of the Horizon from Light's Vision. It's not very celar though, so you can only point out the crane. I'll post it when I find it.

http://www.urbanconstruct.com.au/images/H_NightCad.jpg

http://www.urbanconstruct.com.au/images/horizonmap.jpg

The building can now be seen from the lookout on Montefiore Hill.

It has been for ages, I took a photo recently from there, about two months ago.

The photo is the one I'm still trying to find on Tripod.

*COUGH* Who said Adelaide's not seeing some action ??? (http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6641) *COUGH*

:D

tays

Thanks a lot tays. :D

Here's the pic I took of the crane up on Horizon Apartments a few months ago, more pics coming soon:
(be warned, file is quite large)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid36/p0d7ad1fd2e5a09f318fc2d45228bbb7e/fd1ee4b3.jpg.orig.jpg

finally some pics:D

The building is currently halfway up, compared to the wall of the Embassy. The facade of the lower part of the building is currently going up, while a special barrier has been put up, as well as temporary elevators going up to the 7th or 8th floors. Still about 10 floors to go.

Update: The floors plates are starting to rise again, and the facade work on the lower floors is in place.

More updates and pics soon.

Who said that Adelaides not getting some action, because if you would have taken that same photo a few years ago, half of the buildings on it didn't exist.

*Allegra Hotel
*Embassy
*EDS office block
*Convention Centre

BTW I believe that the Horizon will be as tall as the crane when its completed.

no one says adelaide isn't getting any construction, it just not getting anything thats going to have a significant effect on the streetscape

Oh you'll be surprised chrisaus, especially with North Terrace, where the buildings have had a major effect of how the street looks. Has turned it from the quietest part of town to one of the most bustling.

Anyway, new pic, thanks Adam:
http://home.iprimus.com.au/adamtre/pics/22-11-2002/picture%20020_std.jpg

Not to mention the redevelopment of the East End, David Jones, Rundle Mall Plaza, the Convention Centre and the apartment complex they're building on Hindmarsh Square.

They are also starting on the construction of the new Majestics Hotel on Frome Street, as well as Alpha Apartments also on Frome next to the Imax Carpark.

Here are the buildings that have had a major effect on the western end of North Terrace since 1995:
EDS Centre (left)
Horizon Apartments (u/c and centre)
The Embassy (right)
Convention Centre (extended)
TAFE Buildings (on the other side of Morphett Street)

Also coming in soon is a new proposed 17 level hotel to be squeezed in the middle of Horizon and The Embassy. Look carefully, and there is a very narrow gap.

That's a good photo to destroy the stereotype that nothing happens in Adelaide, coz if Adam had taken that same photo 5 years ago, none of that existed.

@ AG- add these to your list for western North Tce-

Playford Hotel- built in 1995 ( replaced old Adelaide News bldng)
Fairmont Homes HQ- built in 2001 ( next to Newmarket Hotel)

Originally posted by spazpecker
@ AG- add these to your list for western North Tce-

Playford Hotel- built in 1995 ( replaced old Adelaide News bldng)
Fairmont Homes HQ- built in 2001 ( next to Newmarket Hotel)

Now that you tell me, there are probably heaps of buildings that have been built in Northwestern Adelaide cbd that I have forgotten.

I watched the cricket today from Adelaide of corss..and I saw a huge crane in the skyline in the city shots (better than watching the grass grow if u know what i mean) and i thought Hey Adelaide is going places!!!TRUE! ..was that the Horizon Apartments?.....I was so proud for u guys when I saw that construction..seriously.. i know all the hard times u guys have had...not to mention me "basin river"all joking of corss!:D...

Well Done the Aussies hey!!!

Yeah, Glenn McGrath's catch is going to be replayed over and over again for many years to come- and the added bonus is that the camera took in the entire western skyline in following the arc of the ball, including the Horizon crane !!!!

Originally posted by spazpecker
Yeah, Glenn McGrath's catch is going to be replayed over and over again for many years to come- and the added bonus is that the camera took in the entire western skyline in following the arc of the ball, including the Horizon crane !!!!

LOL! i find when i watch cricket now, im constantly looking at skylne in background! i thought i was the only weirdo? thank god im not alone!lol

in the words doen in the vice of Richie Beunard- "WHAT A CATCH"!!!YESSSSSSS

That would have probably been Horizon RocStar, it's just across the lake from Adelaide Oval.

It's not just cricket you watch for the skyline pictures, motor racing is really good because you get streetscapes as well as skylines!

Seriously, I found myself watching some Chinese News on SBS this morning just for the city-shots of Beijing. Didn't understand a word they were saying, but who cares?

Time to Revive this thread.


Quick News:


Horizon is just as tall as it's neighbouring EDS building.

It's now around 14-15 stories high, a few more to go.

is this horizon ?
if so doesen't look 19 levels ?
http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/2599/1622599ml1046409521.jpg

Chrisaus - that's a very stretched picture of Horizon. If you don't think that's 19 stories, you should go back to preschool and learn to count.

ROFL! I don't blame chrisaus for not knowing that it is 19 levels. :D It does look about 16 levels if you only count the windows, but the floors are only about 2.7m tall, compared to the average 3m, and some of the floors are hidden.

I don't blame Chris for not being able to count 19 stories, because the building will never have 19 stories.

The building is officialy 18 stories.

Will, thats the count NOT including the ground floor. Liberty Towers is actually 13 levels as shown in a model of it on display at Holdfast Shores. The ground floor is almost never counted.

Doesn't 18 storeys = 19 levels?

AG - I include the ground floor when i do my floor count, and every time I only get 18 stories/floors.

Unless you're counting that big windowless area above the ground floor as 2 separate floors?

I saw horizon today and the scaffolding and everything is just about the same height as embassy now!

Will, mechanical floors count as floors you know. :) Every building has one.

AG: Mechanical floors don't count in SS.com floor counts IIRC - otherwise Adelaide would have several more high-rises, eg the Napier building at the Uni of Adelaide.

BTW Pikey: Love you avatar! :rock:

Not another Power fan!!! Go da crows!!! :D

Anyway, back on topic. Mechanical floors DO count as floors of a building. The WTC in NYC actually only had 107 occupiable floors, even though the figure of total floors was 110.

Cheers Adam, thought you might like it!

can someone take some upto date UC pix of Horizon?be good to see its progress!

Once it has topped out, it should be a fair bit taller than Embassy shouldn't it?
North terrace will look cool once that 17 level hotel is plonked in there too!!

If I remember, I'll take my camera with me tomorrow and wonder down in the 4-hour gap I have between tutorials. I wish I took my camera today - there was a great photo op when a 7 News helicopter (doing a report on the war protests I guess) flew low over Santos. :)

Edit: Its actually a 3-hour gap - too short to go home for. :rant:

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Those damn protests - my bus was stuck on north terrace for 5 minutes longer than it should have been because of the traffic - luckily we were right next to Horizon so I just sat there gawking at it :) Alot of the facade is done, there is still scafolding on the top 3 levels, lower levels have windows installed etc etc so there has been significant progress.

As promised:

<a href="http://216.194.93.157/~atrevorrow/index.php?file=2003-03-06/picture001.txt" target="_blank"><img src="http://216.194.93.157/~atrevorrow/2003-03-06/picture001_thm.jpg" width="90" border="0" alt="Horizon Apartments - Facade being completed"></a>

Enjoy.

Cul: As I said in the Law Courts thread, in the unlikely event you read this while SS.com is up; feel free to add these photos.

It was only last week that the facade was hardly started, now look at it, a lot of the glass panels have been placed compared to none last week, and many of those square braces on the outside have also been placed.

Judging from Adam's latest photos, Horizon only has 3 floors till it tops out.

It is a bit dissapointing, because that means Horizon will probably be just as tall as the Embassy.
I had always believed that Horizon was going to be slightly taller than Embassy.

But remember, the object on it's roof needs to be added on as well, which is included in it's height figure.

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Isn't the thingy on the top the roof of the penthouse?

Look at this rendering and you can see the ornament of the roof much more clearly.

http://www.urbanconstruct.com.au/images/horizon_front.jpg

AG - Despite the decorative metal thing on the roof, there's no way Horizon is going to reach 60m.

Because at the moment the building is on the 16th floor, and it's only the height of the neighbouring 44.25m EDS Building.

WTF????

There is a tree on top of Horizon! I just saw it with my own eyes. What the hell is it a tradition or something???

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There is a tree on top of Horizon! I just saw it with my own eyes. What the hell is it a tradition or something???</td></tr>
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yeah its a italian tradition. It means its topped out and gives the bldg good luck and gets rid of bad spirits..

heres a pic of Australia square topping out with the tradition of tree topping.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid53/p1dfbf4b5f8f7f1521596a6153c0d6a70/fc8ccb09.jpg

The tree means that Horizon's structural construction phrase is completed, and the building has topped out, though there is still an ornament to add to the top. Half of the caging that used to be on Horizon has been taken off, and once the crane has delivered all the parts of the facade to their place, the crane will be taken down, leaving only the inside to be finished.

If Horizon has topped out, then it is a real dissapointment.

I saw Horizon today, and it's still not even the height of the Embassy.

Maybe with that decorative thing on the roof, it might just reach the height of the Embassy.

<a href="http://216.194.93.157/~atrevorrow/index.php?file=2003-04-02/picture001.txt" target="_blank"><img src="http://216.194.93.157/~atrevorrow/2003-04-02/picture001_thm.jpg" width="90" border="0" alt="Horison Apartments topped out"></a>

Taken on the 2nd but only uploaded today.

Looks like the glass panels are being fitted very quickly. Last week, only several glass panles and balconies had been placed.

Facade (minus windows) is completed on 2 sides, dunno about the side facingEDS, and there's just the top couple of levels on the soutehrn side left.

Nearly there!

Nearly at the stage where the inside is ready to be done up. :)

AG made me post this - I know you've probably already seen it, I didn't want to spam, but AG said if I didn't, he would.

Blame him.

<a href="http://www.urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2003-05-20/picture061.shtml"><img src="http://www.urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2003-05-20/picture061_thm.jpg" width="90" border="0" alt="Horizon Apartments nears completion"></a>

Apparently Horizon is going to be managed by Embassy apartments.

look really nice but small......

It looks nice. The white/cream 'grid' surrounding the dark glass reminds me of the fascade of World Tower in Sydney. A great addition to Adelaide in my opinion.

For those people who think it's too short, the tree on top, technically isn't a communications structure, let's just call it a 'live' spire. ;)

Bye bye crane, nice knowing you....... :guns1:

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Any idea how long until the new building starts next-door?

Funny you should say that, in the Developments registers page on the ACC, in one of the PDFs for april I think, a DA has been lodged and approved, so it is all good for a go, I guess!!

I'll go look for it now

Horizon is such a big dissapointment for me, I was expecting a building that was going to be taller than the Embassy, but instead we get a building that is actually shorter than the Embassy.

I have actually discovered that Horizon is only 49.5m tall.

Compared with the Embassy, which is 52m in height.

To me, Horizon and The Embassy look exactly the same height. :?

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AG - They're not the same height, the Embassy is 2.5m taller than the Horizon.

2.5m isn't a great height, so maybe that's why they appear the same height to you, but I gurantee you that they are not the same height.

Where did you get your height statistics from, Will? Even judging by AtD's most recent Hyatt panorama they look EXACTLY the same height. Even from Morphett Street they look the same.

Update: The outside of Horizon is now completely finished, the last windows have been placed on, the facade is complete. The inside needs some work before it's done.

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The windows on the side facing the Embassy still are not complete (1 floor to go). I'd know, I parked my ass on the median strip at lunch today :p

Maybe time for a photo Adam??!!!!?? :D

I'll see how depressed I am after my exam tomorrow morning. I'm sure they chose Wayville Pavilion to torture us.

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<tr><td align=left valign=top>Where did you get your height statistics from, Will? Even judging by AtD's most recent Hyatt panorama they look EXACTLY the same height. Even from Morphett Street they look the same.

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AG - I got my heights from the ACC; I doubt they would make things up;)

hows this one going guys? is it completed? if so it would be good to have a completed pic.!
cheers

I think you can well add this one to the completed list now. The windows and the facade are now all in place, with work inside the building commencing.

How do you define completed? If completed means its ready for tenants to move in, than this is still under construction. The exterior isn't completed anyway.

Last time I was down that part of the city (11/7)with my camera, I took this:
http://urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2003-07-11/picture%20033_std.jpg

As you can see, it's still got scaffolding around it

Had a look today, a lot of the roof ornament is now completed.

According to ss.com, building are listed as complete when all structural and outside work on the building is complete, not when the building is ready to be occupied. If it's not complete by those standards, it's very close to it anyway.

i define completed as -all exterior work is completed! crane has been removed! who gives a fuck about interior finishes.lol
were all here to see BIG skyscrapers not how nice timber knobs on bedroom walkins look like! :)
ps, im very impressed with how Horizon turned out!
is this the tallest res tower in SA?

It is for now, but the Hinmarsh Square apartments (20 Levels 68m) will take the title once it gets completed (2007). But I wouldn't be surprised if a much taller one is announced by that stage, hopefully over 100m. The SA Government has stopped any more land developments in an attempt to ush up Adelaide CBD population. So more new towers are needed to fill this goal!! 115m tower anyone??!! ;)

By the way how cool does that section of north terrace look??

Originally posted by pikey
By the way how cool does that section of north terrace look??

Wait until 104 North Terrace gets built. There'd be a nice little wall then. :)

Originally posted by CULWULLA
i define completed as -all exterior work is completed! crane has been removed! who gives a fuck about interior finishes.lol
were all here to see BIG skyscrapers not how nice timber knobs on bedroom walkins look like! :)
ps, im very impressed with how Horizon turned out!
is this the tallest res tower in SA?

Culwulla,

The Embassy still retains its title as Adelaide's tallest residential building at 52m

I'm not making this up, I swear; Horizon is only 49.5m tall

And now it has signage for stamford hotels..... wtf? I thought it was a 100% apartment building?

Originally posted by yob
And now it has signage for stamford hotels..... wtf? I thought it was a 100% apartment building?

Doesn't it have signage for the Ramada Chain of Hotels?

Could Horizon be the mystery hotel project at 104 North Terrace?

It's probably serviced apartments like The Embassy. Sort of half hotel, half residential thing.

Great to see that this building is completed externally. Work on the foyer is well underway.

Originally posted by Will
Doesn't it have signage for the Ramada Chain of Hotels?

Could Horizon be the mystery hotel project at 104 North Terrace?

Yeah I think it's Ramada, hell I get those 2 mixed up all the time :)

The thing about the mystery tower is that 104 North Terrace... actually is Horizon I think? Isn't the gap in between 110-116?

Originally posted by yob
Yeah I think it's Ramada, hell I get those 2 mixed up all the time :)

The thing about the mystery tower is that 104 North Terrace... actually is Horizon I think? Isn't the gap in between 110-116?

Yes it is. We're just dumb.

Originally posted by Will
Culwulla,

The Embassy still retains its title as Adelaide's tallest residential building at 52m

I'm not making this up, I swear; Horizon is only 49.5m tall lol thats hell small!

Originally posted by Westside4life 91
lol thats hell small!

nice contribution:nono:

Originally posted by chrisaus
nice contribution:nono:

This from you of all people. :D

yeah fuck being nice ITS AN UGLY SHIT BOX:D

Great developments for a bloody great part of town ! If Chris reckons they're ugly then....bring on the uglies !!!! :guns1:

http://urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2003-07-11/picture%20033_std.jpg

Originally posted by spazpecker
If Chris reckons they're ugly then....bring on the uglies !!!! :guns1:


to quote myself..from the last page of the thread
Originally posted by chrisaus
looks really nice but small......

For comparison:

12/2002
http://www.urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2002-12-18/picture004_std.jpg


02/2003
http://www.urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2003-02-04/picture004_std.jpg


03/2003
http://www.urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2003-03-06/picture001_std.jpg


04/2003
http://www.urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2003-04-02/picture001_std.jpg


05/2003
http://www.urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2003-05-20/picture061_std.jpg


10/2003
http://www.urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2003-10-17/picture%20013_std.jpg

Horizon has turned out really nice!

Has anyone noticed how the roof decoration is lit up at night?

Looks really nice from Light's Lookout.

Well, i'm dead certain that our 17 level hotel all along was horizon. I'm thinking that the DA was just an ammendment to the original Horizon DA. I saw people entering the building from the left, it appears the apartments entrance is on the left while the nearly completed hotel lobby for Ramada hotels is the right entrance.

Originally posted by yob
Well, i'm dead certain that our 17 level hotel all along was horizon. I'm thinking that the DA was just an ammendment to the original Horizon DA. I saw people entering the building from the left, it appears the apartments entrance is on the left while the nearly completed hotel lobby for Ramada hotels is the right entrance.


I completely agree with you.

Next time we ask Culwulla to make some changes on SS.com, we should ask him to erase the proposed North Terrace hotel, because I am now also 100% sure, that it's the same building as Horizon.