It will now be called East West Apartments. :) They also seem to have changed the design for the roof section. Somehow I think this will actually be the same height or taller than 223 North Terrace judging by the rendering. Apartments are being released onto the market soon.

Here is the official website: http://www.eastwestapartments.com.au/

And the rendering:
http://www.eastwestapartments.com.au/downloads/ew_wallpaper_800x600.jpg

One thing I like about the design was that they angled the balconies so that every apartment has an equal view out onto the terrace, even after 223NT goes up. Does anybody know what the wall we can't see is going to look like? Just a blank wall?

Also surprised to see it's actually underwritten by UniSA. More student housing maybe? Or are they just trying to bum some bucks off the housing markets to build their own student accomodation somewhere else in the future?

With Horizon out the way, this is definitely my favourite development in Adelaide/Glenelg right now!

It sure looks horn allright!! Can't wait for the sight of this plus 223 all finito, should look schmik!

To me, the design looks the same as what was in the City Messenger a few months ago (here (http://home.iprimus.com.au/adamtre/227NorthTce.jpg)), but the colour rendering makes it look a lot nicer.

What are they going to put on the eastern wall? I hope they don't leave it blank, unless they plan to put another high-rise there.

they look pretty tacky

I like it. Adelaide is loving the skinning buildings at the moment!

That's a great rendering.

I dont know what the art gallery guy was talking about, but that's a very nice looking building!

But the height remains at 38m.

Will, them museum guys still think we live in an era known as the early 20th century. :( Bloody NIMBYs.

It's a good looking building. Lucky that 223NT is going up though, otherwise it would stick out like a sore thumb.

I think the old 227NT thread got its ass deleted, so let's continue this thread as the construction thread.

Construction doesn't look too close :( A few weeks ago I saw workmen in there and bags of cement/plaster, and I assumed this was because they were sealling off the building for demolition. However, it now looks as if the ground floor is being converted into a display room, which you'd think they'd keep around for a few months yet to get enough sales to justify beginning construction. Meh :(

Yeah the door handles are in the shape of that EW 3D logo - definitely a display centre.

Should be unreal in a couple of months, we'll have duelling tower cranes!! Bring it on, I cannot wait.

I cannot believe I am sitting here infront of my computer at 1:15 on a saturday night. Oh well, home from AAMI stadium, very happy and wide awake!

fixed thread as per request

There's a model in the (now open) display centre. From the quick look I had, it seems the eastern wall will be blank. :(

Maybe there will be another high-rise to go next door. ;)

I have heard rumors of such, but, I won't say anything for fear of backlash by fellow forumers!

Originally posted by AG
Maybe there will be another high-rise to go next door. ;)

That's a good idea, because the 2 buildings next to 227 North Terrace are definately past their use by date...

The model on display:
http://www.urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/MiscDates/picture%20013_std.jpg
The site (as posted in the 223 North Terrace thread):
here (http://www.urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/MiscDates/picture%20012.shtml)

Finally, new photos!!! :D

The model on display makes the building appear taller than what it really will be like.:)

Does anyone know when things will start here??? Or does there have to be a certain amount of pre-commitment?. I'm getting a bit carried away with all this construction coming up at the moment

http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/3237/101093237ml1065860887.jpg

35/39 apartments sold as of last Friday, like most of the projects in this city now it's waiting for a builder!

EDIT - the approval for the display center was granted in August for a 6 month period, so maybe we'll see demolition start in February-March.

Good time's ahead fellas, I spoke to a dude in the display centre, and demolition work will start very soon with proper construction "hopefully started by the end of the year."
Man they must be going to rip the fuck out of the little jobbie there now! What's the bet this thing beats 223NT in construction speed. BTW I think they have placed another piece of scaffold on.......slow it down fellas..........don't want to break anything...........:bash:

A salvage mob is starting their work on the building now. So the guts are coming out and soon the rest should start to come down

Went past today, the building is just a shell now.

Demo work progressing nicely - won't be too much longer. I don't think there was any underground parking on this job, so I guess once the building is down, foundation work and a crane should not be too far away

The front of the building is now gone - not much longer to wait till things start to get really interesting here!

The site's been cleared.

Doesn't look all that deep - the building behind it is getting 'dozed aswell, right?

*edit* just looked at the model pic again. hrmmm, i always imagined it'd be longer..... gutted :(

I thought the one behind was going too Yob??? Surely the building cannot be that shallow??? 39 apartments on 14 levels, must be pretty small residences, I guess it's student accomodation anyhow, they should be just taking their pick ups back there after a few jars at the uni bar anyhow!

Had a look today, excavations are starting and the building behind is still intact. Maybe they are building ontop of it and recladding or something. :?

Has anybody seen the signage painted onto that really old building that is now visible after the ugly pile of junk in front was demolished? Check out the phone number on it - from memory, 5 digits long :D

Yeah I've seen it. Now let's wait and see for this building to be placed as heritage listed and this project be stopped........

BTW Yob how was Metallica??? I saw 'em in 1993 at the Ent Cent and they were farking mad then. The entire floor area was one massive mosh! I was up the front at the 2000 BDO for the Chilli Peppers - best live show ever. Couldn't imagine the RHCP being as crazy as the Metal Lickers though - would've gone orf!

Originally posted by pikey
Yeah I've seen it. Now let's wait and see for this building to be placed as heritage listed and this project be stopped........

BTW Yob how was Metallica??? I saw 'em in 1993 at the Ent Cent and they were farking mad then. The entire floor area was one massive mosh! I was up the front at the 2000 BDO for the Chilli Peppers - best live show ever. Couldn't imagine the RHCP being as crazy as the Metal Lickers though - would've gone orf!

Mate.

Metallica destroyed the city of Adelaide last night. Words can't describe how loud it was. Fuck a decibel meter, you'd need a richter scale. I've never as comprehensively gotten my ass kicke in my entire life. 5 rows from the front in the mosh :D

Dude.

I gotta show respect. Talk about staying power for the entire mosh. I guess James Hetfield was his usual, get the fuck outta my way self! I just couldn't get the day off for it, but the boss told me I'm off to Melbourne in a coupla weeks so I guess that makes up for it.
Oh yeah, did they sound much differenct without Jason Newstead, their previous bassist?? What song did they open with??

Oh yeah, um East west apartments are cool - back on track!

Fuck the aprtments for the time being :D

They opened with.... BLACKENED! Fuck, when they opened up, I knew I was going to die. After one song the temperature in there was at least 60 degrees, everyone covered in sweat and going crazy, beating the crap out of each other. People landing on my head left right and center. My ears are still ringing after the pyrotecnics display exploded 5 metres in front of me. They played so much old shit it's not funny. Kirk fucked up during Fade To Black but it's all good.

Some 500 pound fat fuck nearly died behind us, and security were trying frantically to get him out. Of course they tried crowd surfing him to the front, and I had 500 pounds of lard land right on my head.

It was pure violence, it kicked ass.

Jaymz stoped 3 times during the show asking us if we were okay, saying "if one of your brothers fall down you pick him up" , "we want the same number of people leaving that came here" and kirk just laughed at us all night. Trujillo has a lot of energy on stage, and the sound was just as it used to be - the new shit sounded better live though, but that's prolly because the mixing in the last cd is shite.

I remember the last time I saw 'em Lars split his middle finger open and just played through the reso of the show. You should've seen the drumskins after the show, looked like someone fucking exploded on them!!! It's wasn't the first time he had done it though!

Tell me they played "Don't tread on me" - My absolute most thrashed out song - it rocks!!!

alright this is my last off topic post i swear :D

i'll try and remember the setlist (not in order)

blackened
enter sandman
fade to black
sweet amber
saint anger
harvester of sorrow
one
master of puppets
battery (i think, i serioulsy can't remember haha)
nothing else matters
creeping motherfucking death!
frantic
saaanitarium
for whom the bell tolls

*edit - could've been sad but true aswell, can't quite remember. I know jaymz was doing a mini jam on it then launched into a song, but can't remember if they launched in to the actual song itself...... i've got *very* slight concussion from last night when I headbanged myself to pieces during master of puppets, but that's okay, because it was the poor guy behind me that copped it and had his nose mashed :O

Fuck. Awesome.

I guess I should get this thing back on topic.

How long do we think till a crane gets' on site???

If anyone is interested a white tower crane base is on site now. Saw it this morning.

Originally posted by pikey
If anyone is interested a white tower crane base is on site now. Saw it this morning.

Yeah I saw it too, this means that in a few days we'll have another tower crane on the skyline.

:banana2:

The crane base seems to be in a weird spot, in the middle of what will be the building.

As of 11am this morning most of the bulk of the tower part of the crane was in place, soaring to just about equal height of the JM's carpark. I'd say now that the cabing would just about be in place now, you'd think.

Any recent pics of the site?

I'll try and get a pic tommorow if I have time. Anyone else in town soon???

I went past yesterday and another section of crane was sitting upright next to the main section. Once this is whacked ontop the top of the tower section would be around 40m high, by my guestimation....

wow.

I have uni at 5 tomorrow, so i'll have a pic of it at the end of the working day.

Originally posted by pikey
I went past yesterday and another section of crane was sitting upright next to the main section.

Hey I saw that. I thought it was another crane for a while; I was behind the barricades set up for the North Tce development and could only see the top of the piece next to it.

I was going to take a photo to day but left my cam at home. Tomorrow, gents.

Pics :? lol

Some pics of the site and the facade which is being assembled on site now. BTW these pics were taken from my car, thank god for the fucked traffic on North Terrace giving me time to get 'em!!!

Here you go Muse!

http://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/49194230.jpg
http://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/49194207.jpg
http://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/49194221.jpg
http://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/49194197.jpg

:D

Thanks for the pics pikester.

The ground level facade is nothing like the poo colour in the renders.

:) :okay:

Thanks for the photos Pikey, the construction site is TINY!

The cabin of the crane is up now (Saturday), and the base of the arm.

The cabin of the crane is up now (Saturday), and the base of the arm.

As of Sunday, the rest of the crane is now complete.

Distance, and not so crash hot pic of said crane.

http://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/51627151.jpg

It's interesting that they have the crane hanging over North Terrace during the night. It would be cool if during the day the crane plucked a car off the street and flung it into the art gallery.

Some more shots of the site, a little old, but still shots.

http://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/51792271.jpghttp://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/51792263.jpghttp://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/51792254.jpghttp://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/51792244.jpg

I'll get some more pics on saturday.


Level 4 is underway. And the old building behind is now having work done to it.

Top stuff Pikeman. :okay:

Thanks for the update - the charcoal coloured cladding is very nice IMO

Does anyone know why they don't put coloured lights on the tower cranes anymore?

I remember the crane that built the convention centre was decorated with green lights at night. I reckon it looked really good.

Up to the 4th level already. This thing is hooning along. Or probably not, but compared to next door it is.

I got some shots on Sat. I'll post em tommorow

Here's my shots. Level 4 and counting. You can see the first 2 balconies are being buildt. I had to use image shrinker to due to picture trail playing funny buggers.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid116/p83ea5385bcc3337dccf177f02b213990/f8b3e3b1.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid116/p61db5642ad2f2c9744614fb751ea8e95/f8b3e3be.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid116/p0b16ece6dcfc67825cca0a5ecb511de7/f8b3e3c6.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid116/p557d48e969e52695103253f4b282cdeb/f8b3e3d1.jpg

This thing is flying. The lift core (well not really a core) rose again today.

It really is amazing how quick this thing is flying up!
http://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/56445572.jpg

Level 8, I believe???

It is now equal height with the JM's carpark, the core is a little higher

http://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/60131073.jpg
http://pic10.picturetrail.com:80/VOL343/2004633/3879099/60131105.jpg

Wow, I hadn't realised how fast this thing was going up!

In Pikey's photos from May, the building was only at the third floor, now it appears to be around the 10-11 level mark.

Jesus it's tiny!

http://urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2004-07-22/picture%20077_std.jpg

http://urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2004-07-22/picture%20078_std.jpg

http://urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2004-07-22/picture%20079_std.jpg

http://urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2004-07-22/picture%20091_std.jpg

Coupla pics

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid133/pfe0e5e163a7fa7703e242eaa1af70aba/f784bff0.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid133/p8ba85c1fb4b623cc844a6c3abe94eea6/f784bfed.jpg

Gee it's shot up quickly, though I guess there wasn't really much of a building to construct. Is this thing close to topping out or has it topped out yet?

AG, the lift shaft is either at 13 or 14, can't tell.

My estimate: 14 core 12 level.

The size of the building has surprised me a bit, it's really small and thin, however the design is very nice, especially when viewed from the museum. But at 38m we really shouldn't be expecting much...

Some more exterior walls were being whacked up today. Just about must have topped out, because if you look at the top of the lift core there is an angled section that has been added, and if my memory is correct, the roof is angeld downwards towards the mall. It's been interesting watching this one grow though, prefab construction is bullshit quick! Nearly 6 months from nothing to topped out!

Does anyone know why they don't put coloured lights on the tower cranes anymore?

I remember the crane that built the convention centre was decorated with green lights at night. I reckon it looked really good.

$$$$$$$$$$$$

If it suits, they would be lit up like christmas trees. From recall, about $10,000 just to set up the lights, switchboards and install on a crane!

Today:

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

The final level will be where the top level of scaffolding is now, so we've got a clear indication for how tall she will be.

All in all it ended up being a small little bastard, but... at the same time it's bigger than I thought it would be when I saw the first render.

They should knock down those two ugly 50-60's
building next to it used by the Uni of Adelaide
and should expand the building. Then it would
look really good.

Nice pic yob
I thought the render was a bit crap, but I've got a hunch that when the wraps come off this may be a swankier little number than I was expecting

http://www.photoadelaide.com/gal/2004/09/44_std.jpg

Great photo ATD - from that angle the building looks pretty tall, plus now that it's almost complete, I reckon that it will be one of the few buildings that actually look like the picture published in the Advertiser.

I'm not entirely sure about any of my memories from last night, but I think the scafolding is off right to the top on the laneway side, and that the only real exterior work to go is attaching those coloured tacky things and yoinking the crane out! (that'll be fun to watch)

That wierd slanty roof thingy is being built.

http://smicik.customer.netspace.net.au/eastwest2609.jpg

This thing really needed to be 35 storeys. :(

...Just imagine how anorexic that thing would look at 35 levels on that site... :D

Just think how bloody cool it would look as a result though.

35 storeys is totally inappropriate - but damn it would look cool. Adelaide needs to be daring. It needs to have some planning fuckups, just to bring a little chaos to the sickening order. I'm sick of hearing how perfectly planned the city is. Build a monstrous mistake somewhere!

*edit* - oh yeah the crane's gone btw.

Yob, f*ckups aren't supposed to be planned as f*ckups. They are normally planned buildings that become f*ckups over time.

Well when i'm doing development assessments in 1.5 years, i'll be insisting that applicants revise their plans until they meet my set criteria of fuckups.

180m scraper rising out of the ashes of Tandanya. Just you wait for it :)

That wierd slanty roof thingy is being built.

http://smicik.customer.netspace.net.au/eastwest2609.jpg

This thing really needed to be 35 storeys. :(

Lookin good but. liking the weird slanty roof thingy

They should tear down Elizabeth House and that building behind the Art
Gallery sign (also a Uni of Adelaide building) and extend EastWest. They
its size would look great.

http://www.photoadelaide.com/gal/2004/10/18/19_std.jpg

http://www.photoadelaide.com/gal/2004/10/18/24_std.jpg

great pix. just about there. looks ok.

any recent pix. been a month .
should be about there. next one to go to completed thread?
top piccies

The terrace side is still covered head to toe with scafolds.

Not yet, the construction elevators and green mesh are still up on the front.

http://smicik.customer.netspace.net.au/227nt22nov.jpg

http://smicik.customer.netspace.net.au/227nt22nov2.jpg

http://smicik.customer.netspace.net.au/227nt26nov.jpg

Great photos Yob - thanks for keeping us up to date with this development.

I'm really starting to like it.

Much better than I thought it would be.

Great use of glass at the top of the western facade.

It was done by the same architect that does most of Urban Construct's work and I think I like it better than their other buildings.

wow, what a sophisticated looking resi - well and truly a cut above average. Also its surely gotta rank among the 'thinnest' scrapers in Oz judging by the front elevation shot.

Can't wait for it's big brother to be finished next door.

top notch photos Yob! :)

http://smicik.customer.netspace.net.au/eastwest15december2004.jpg

Move this thread to the completed section. This thing is well and truly completed.

Yeah well, I count 4 parts of the facade that haven't been attached yet.

People are living in it now. I'd call it complete. It doesn't look half bad either.

http://photoadelaide.com/JunkPile/23-03-2005/picture%20003_std.jpg

any totally finished pics?