I was able to take this photo of North Apartments under construction yesterday. It is about three levels above ground. For those in Sydney who want to monitor it's progress, it is in Goulburn Street between Pitt St and Castleragh Street.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid36/pceef4eb0023ef2bb8b94e1391851d561/fd1f7072.jpg

Pic....?

5,000 sq m, 49 apartments, 410 sq m of retail/commercial space and prestressed concrete.

The obligatory renderings....

................http://seidler.net.au/graphics/033_DT02.jpg

Showing the coloured glass end blades:

......http://seidler.net.au/graphics/033_DT01.jpg

I think its a brilliant little design for its site & location! for those who wana know its height its 55m! or 1metre lower than Darwins tallest.
:)

:puke:

Harry seems to love that curvy balcony design that he has used in virtually every residential tower since Horizion at Darlinghurst. These designs would have to make him unique from other architects.

My only real concern about this project is this.

On the western wall overlooking the Mandarin Club Building on the corner of Goulburn and Pitt Streets, the top 7 floors only have a few slivers for windows. The rest is (once again, re Aspect) a blank wall. You can juuuuuust begin to see it in the 2nd rendering above. :(

Maybe they're expecting The Mandarin Club, which is a rather large deco building, to be redeveloped at some stage. :(

...or maybe, it's just that brutalism that H***y just cannot shake! :(

Very cool to have a thread for the construction of this one! :)

As for the potential blank wall, it will only rise 7 levels above The Mandarin Club, so it won't be nearly as bad as the Aspect's 41 level blank wall I'm sure! ;)

And considering the size (or lack thereof) of the block, there is no option really. You really can't have anything but a blank wall there just in case the Mandarin Club does wanna develop!

Then I suppose the same could be said for Aspect, but once again the size of it's blank wall is crazy!!! That's something for a designer to work out, and I'm sure that with a bit of thought they could have managed it!

7 levels of (almost) blank wall too much :(

Redevelopment of The Mandarin Club :( . It's a large brick industrial style deco building i.e. the type of style brick-built deco factories have.

Originally posted by museumb
7 levels of (almost) blank wall too much :(


awwwww.... c'mon, it aint THAT much.
But then again.... :(

Blank walls are common in many building less than fifteen stories because they assume that the buildings next door to them will be of a similiar height.

Well, that's understood. Has somebody actually heard that the Mandarin Club is going?

...but it comes back to my main concern in North's case. I wouldn't like to see the Mandarin club site developed yet i don't want to see a large H***y wall if the Mandarin Club site is never developed. Damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of thing.

A 7 storey, 70 storey or 7,000 storey H***y wall is just not what i wanna see. :( There is already enough of that in this town.

pic taken today at lunchtime!!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid40/paeee3e1bc0b67b58eac2ed34fdff0b6c/fcff8f45.jpg

Comparing that photo with the one taken recently by me, it's increased only two floors in a month. That's a bit slow.

hey its harrrry's only colourred buiding!!!

Originally posted by Noonos
hey its harrrry's only colourred buiding!!!

That's quite a selective Seidler portfolio statement! What about Cove?

All the buildings in that neighbourhood look kind of muted in terms of their colour - the stark white and bright coloured balcony ends will be a welcome constrast I think!

I took a new picture today of it's progress.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid40/p593cae1253c6cbb660b520c3f111b75e/fcfd9914.jpg

Looks pretty similar to the stage it was at with Culwulla's last pic - but then again that was only 2 days ago!

The very cool thing is that its taken from the same angle as your original North construction pic Fabian, so its a very good comparison shot! :okay:

I always try to take Construction photo's from the same location if I can. It is for comparsion purposes too.

IMO This 16 floor above ground building is rising relatively quickly. The tower of the crane looks as if it's almost at the 16th level too, if it isn't already :) .

Seems north has risen a couple of floor plates. can any one confirm actual heights of core and floor plates:guns1:

Culwulla posted that North will be 55 metres tall.

I mean actual heights at the moment.:weirdo:

North is now sitting floor plate about 1 below the mandarin club if anyone has any new construction pics please post.:cheers:

i personally think the desing looks aweful!
but, i thik it may suit where it is fine..

Originally posted by WorldTowerWorker
North is now sitting floor plate about 1 below the mandarin club if anyone has any new construction pics please post.:cheers:

My photo of November 30 on page one of this thread clearly shows what you've just stated.

Originally posted by Fabian


My photo of November 30 on page one of this thread clearly shows what you've just stated.

All it shows is that the green mesh and scaffolding is at that height not the floor plate i saw it from level 39 of world tower and it is at least a floor or two under the mesh :finger:

It is within a floor of the top. Look up close.

New photo taken today. It has risen a floor since shot was last taken.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid43/pd25cc2d96dd39edac7dc3f534ab490b2/fcea8ca8.jpg

:okay:

Can't wait to see the Mondrian coloured glasswork on the finished "product".

A Mondrian Painting titled "Composition A" (1923):

____________http://witcombe.sbc.edu/modernism/images/mondrian-compositionA2.jpg

Just as a reminder, part of the balconies of the frontage:

___http://seidler.net.au/graphics/033_DT01.jpg

...and thank the heavens they have taken down that effigy of H***y off the hordings. Amen!

Now that's a fembot you won't see very often! :)

No doubt Seidler got his inpiration for North's balcony separators from Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitaion complex.

Click here (http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Unite_d_Habitation.html/cid_2464522.gbi) for a photo of what I'm talking about.

BACK IN BUSINESS PEOPLE!! SITE IN FULL SWING!! :okay:

I took a new photo today. I think it has gone up a level since my last visit.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid47/pafe85fd1365a56e6446ca9a1e56fe7af/fcc5d0c5.jpg

took this pic last week-23rd/Jan. its now up over height of mandarin club . approx level 11 or 33.5m high.

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/01/180094.jpg

Looks as if more scaffholding has been added. I hope it has risen by another floor when I visit the site on Thursday.

I took a new photo today. It has risen another storey in a just a week.

fabian, you put a pic of cassia gardens here, so i deleted it!

looks like its not far from topping out!t
here up to 14, so only 2 levels to go.
took these today.

the side panels are clearly seen now.

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/02/182803.jpg



http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/02/182804.jpg

Thanks for that update Culwulla!

I need to repost my picture as I was unaware that I posted the wrong one. Sorry. It has made some fairly good progress since January 30.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid49/pdebc07a023056fae59232dca8c4fece8/fcb5ab32.jpg

from today looing up Goulburn st

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid53/p29de04d684289a62a556780d7443bb5e/fc8e2676.jpg

Making good progress. How far to go until it top's out?

Looks like it's only got one more floor to go until topping out, as far as floorplates go, but then the roof after that of course, otherwise the penthousers would be very cold during winter indeed - hA hEE hA :| ).

This is what I was fearing!!.....

We loose sight of a few blank walls that come along with new developments such as:

1) With the construction of Civic, part of the huge southern blank wall of Museum Towers and the back of Ibis, World Square will be hidden.

1) With the construction of Cassia Garden, part of the southern wall of The Summit will be hidden.....

BUT

.......we gain another (7 storey) blank wall hanging over the Mandarin Club with the western wall of North!!!!! :bleep:

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This is what I was fearing!!.....

We loose sight of a few blank walls that come along with new developments such as:

1) With the construction of Civic, part of the huge southern blank wall of Museum Towers and the back of Ibis, World Square will be hidden.

1) With the construction of Cassia Garden, part of the southern wall of The Summit will be hidden.....

BUT

.......we gain another (7 storey) blank wall hanging over the Mandarin Club with the western wall of North!!!!! :bleep:</td></tr>
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Yes, that blank wall on North is more detrimental to the area than I would have thought at first! Especially so if they paint it the bright, glaring white that the rest of the building will sport!

It's funny how these blank wall things work, considering that as North presents us with this new blank wall, it also covers all the blank walls of the high-rise courts next door to it!

I'd be nice if they painted the wall white. It's looks so ugly being grey.

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Yes, but if its white it will very obvious and really glare badly when the western sun hits it after noon! I think it would be good with a billboard on it. :)

Well, this one has topped-out!

Think they are testing an undercoat of paint or actually starting to apply it, just above the Mandarin Club side on the blank wall.

I think it has according to the picture

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid55/p26e33613a2648eccdb3a37f8036ce7f1/fc7cc7fd.jpg

pic from today!

Painting has started on the west face!

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/03/184710.jpg


heres a pic thru the Latitude site

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid55/p16ed95ef8c5845b17d358718deeb2c29/fc7c74e9.jpg

It wasn't even painted when I took that photo yesterday.

realestate.com dont think it looks tall!!
lol

http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/2205/1602205ml1042956156.jpg

LOL @ the squished-up version CULWULLA!!! So funny!

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They were testing a little square in the bottom left hand corner of the western face on Tuesday - you can juuuuuuust see it in the last few pics.

Bloody hell! I must be walking around with my eyes closed. I had no idea North was this far into its construction. I guess I havn't been on this thread for a while! We'll be seeing lovely curved white balconies with primary colours in no time!

first coat of paint on west face done!

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/03/186141.jpg

Looking great. Cannot wait for the scaffholding to come off.

I think it looks great. Is it an Engelen Moore? It looks very Sydney...very Seidler-esque.

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it's a Seidler.

This morning I took a closer look. Scaffolding has been removed from a vertical section of the building, revealing the signature curves of our beloved Mr Harry Siedler ...

http://images2.fotki.com/v21/photos/2/22045/220204/0358north-vi.jpg

peek-a-boo! Now we see a strip of raw balcony ...

http://images2.fotki.com/v21/photos/2/22045/220204/0359north-or.jpg

http://images2.fotki.com/v20/photos/2/22045/220204/0360north-or.jpg

That has to be an undercoat on the western face - it's grey!

Did we really have to have that close-up of Seidler :tongue3: ? BTW We've been able to pek-a-boo @ the curved balconies for a couple of weeks now.

well, as I said earlier

I have been walking around with my eyes closed, and I havn't seen it on this thread (or is it?)

...also


if we must have Seidler creations in our fair city, we may as well be reminded of what the old bastard looks like!

Fair enough Mr B. & lol ..... but perhaps smaller pics of H***y would have been adequate.

As such - this is a nice one of him (but the Milsons Point apartment interior is nicer - reowwwww!!): This is now only the 2nd pic of him on this thread.

______________http://www.seidler.net.au/graphics/office/harry.jpg


...and yes, I did read that you hadn't been to the thread for yonks .... and quote: "Bloody Hell" - open those eyes > :sleepy: > :sly: > :eek: > :sleepy: ! ;) .


Some facts about North - 5,000 sq m, 49 apartments, 410 sq m retail/commerical space. Prestressed concrete. The apartments are designed following a split-level planning system. This results in a ceiling height of 2.85m over the living areas and 2.7m in the raised bedrooms.


...and typical 1/2 bedroom North apartment plans. The 2 elevator shafts are at the back.

_____http://www.seidler.net.au/graphics/033_DT03.jpg

Ok I've never noticed this building before but if it's the one just across from Civic then you might like to know that they took down the crane today.

It's across from Civic

I can say that the crane is now down?

What about the scaffholding? Is it still up?

Not sure Fabster. I think the building is all glass. If so it looks nothing like the renders I saw. Or maybe the all glass building was next to North. Like I said I've never paid attention to this site.

This "all glass" building your talking about is the Family Court Building. That was completed more than ten years ago. North is right next to this.

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heres a pic i took recently of family Courts. i love this bldg!

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2002/11/172075.jpg

That's not the one I was talking about. Looks kinda cute though. Nice curves.

Hmmm.... that is a nice building. I love the bottom half of it... that dark slate/marble look is very classy. I love it. It'll prove a nice contrast to the white curvyness of North.

Of all new buildings around this North one is the runt of the litter. I guess every litter needs a runt.

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Are you talking about the John Madison Tower (Civil Courts)? which is on the northern side of Castleraugh St.

Actually now that I think about it it was the one in the picture above. I reckon this runt will get bullied by all the bigger ones around:)

North yesterday

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/pa5b214d0d4591fb8996b6b0ae8d97cdc/fc530a8a.jpg

Now all we can really do as forumers with this one is wait for all the mesh to start coming down...."twiddles thumbs and hums*

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yeah its looked the same for the last 2 months! i think ill start taking pix again after harry has got his mixed paints out and painted the balcs!!

bumped so as thread wont get deleted

The scaffolding is coming down with the coloured partitions being exposed. Red, yellow, white.....as in the renderings.

Gouburn St will be the street of the massivley hung - along with the huge overhangs of Civic Tower and E & Y @ Latitude, the undulating curves of the balonies of North will only add to the affect.

I think North will compliment the curved corners of the diagonal transfer structure of Civic Tower opposite beautifully :okay:

Yesterday (Tuesday) I passed the site and the scaffolding is coming down relatively quickly. The top four floors were exposed.

I am hoping the developers will put a "North" sign on the 7 storey blank western wall. Here's hoping :master:.

Photos, please, forumners!
So that those of us who are out town can get a preview of the unveiled North before we return....

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as soon as it stops raining i was going to snap away. but it hasnt stopped raing in a bloody week!!!
:rant: hopefully this week?
:D

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as soon as it stops raining i was going to snap away. but it hasnt stopped raing in a bloody week!!!
:rant: hopefully this week?
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Thanks!
I've been following the rain on the web: parlty out of interest, partly because my own tiny bit of development (an extention) is being slowed down because the builders can't pour concrete or work on the roof. Now I have sympathy for those big projects that go frustratingly slowly!

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Don't worry DBM!!!

I was going to get one on Friday, but i'll have to move back a week.

pix from today! well rain didnt stop so i went anyway!lol
looks good up close!

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/05/193259.jpg

first coloured balc! 'red"

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/509/126closeup.jpg

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/509/126fromgeorgest.jpg



:)

I think it'll look terrific!

I thin one reason people accuse H***y of making his buildings all look the same is that he has a distinctive style that's not the fashion of the moment; whack up a glass tower and no-one complains that it looks like another glass tower. But the Horizon and beyond Seidler all looks very differnt from the mainstream, and so we concentrate on the similarities between them (which are what define their differences from the mainstream) rather than the diffences they have from each other.

Another point: are there any plans for something that will hide the blank wall??

agree!
the blank wall is there to stay! the cnr Mandarin club is heritage listed! which is good i think because if a bldg went up to same height all you would see are the balconies. this way you can see curved roof :)

heres a pic showing Miramar with mandarin club at left

http://www.sydney-rooms.com/images/miramar6a.jpg

Thanks for that Culwulla. That's a Seidler alright! :)

I'll have a looksie myself this afternoon. It should look a little more elegant when we see the full height of the fascade. Not bad, so far.

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I'm certainly glad the Mandarin club is listed. But that being the case why the blank wall? Why not some windows overlooking the roof?

Fire restrictions?
Harry likes the blank wall?
Overlooking issues?

The heritage listing of the Mandarin Club doesn't prevent a few more floors being added to the top of it - does it?

I'm talking an addition like the contemporary top portion that was added to Customs house, and the upper levels approved to be added to the Scots Church (Portico), or the Goldsborough Mort levels that were added...or something like that.

The Mandarin Club looks like a prime opportunity for a residential conversion, with about 5 or 6 new levels, designed in a contemporary but complementary style. This would block that blank wall of North.

Don't worry - if someone else doesn't do it first, I'll take care of that when I finish my Property Economics course, and I'm working for a big developer. ;)

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I'm talking an addition like the contemporary top portion that was added to Customs house, and the upper levels approved to be added to the Scots Church (Portico), or the Goldsborough Mort levels that were added...or something like that.
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I don't know, but these additions can be awful. The addition to the Goldsborough Mort building looks cheapjack and terrible, IMHO. And similarly the top of customs house ruins the integrity of the building.

While I agree that eh Mandarin club, while worth protecting, isn't in the class of those buildings, I still would be very anxious about how adding levels worked (it might work with enough setback, giving the impression of a taller building behind it rather than a dodgy extention)

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I'm talking an addition like the contemporary top portion that was added to Customs house, and the upper levels approved to be added to the Scots Church (Portico), or the Goldsborough Mort levels that were added...or something like that.
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I don't know, but these additions can be awful. The addition to the Goldsborough Mort building looks cheapjack and terrible, IMHO. And similarly the top of customs house ruins the integrity of the building.

While I agree that eh Mandarin club, while worth protecting, isn't in the class of those buildings, I still would be very anxious about how adding levels worked (it might work with enough setback, giving the impression of a taller building behind it rather than a dodgy extention)</td></tr>
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I agree on the Goldsborough additions...it just isn't worth trying to replicate the original structure (which their additions attempted to do), because it ends up looking like a cheap copy of the original, with mass produced modern-day materials and totally different structural techniques.

As for the Customs House addition, I really like it and dispute any ruining of integrity...I was already a bit of a mongrel building before the most recent additions, having been majorly added to or changed about 5 or 6 times throughout various decades since its original construction. So it's almost in the spirit of the building to keep adding, changing and updating! ;)

Personally, I don't think much of the Mandarin Club...but if it's heritage listed and needs to be retained then at least a couple of floors on top could do it wonders! Like the new apartment that was built on the roof of Droga House in Surry Hills - that couldn't be more different to the original brick warehouse it sits atop, but looks brilliant IMO!

I think I'd have to get a Melbourne architect in to design some sort of surprising/trendy/funky addition to the Mandarin. ;)

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As for the Customs House addition, I really like it and dispute any ruining of integrity...I was already a bit of a mongrel building before the most recent additions, having been majorly added to or changed about 5 or 6 times throughout various decades since its original construction. So it's almost in the spirit of the building to keep adding, changing and updating! ;)

Personally, I don't think much of the Mandarin Club...but if it's heritage listed and needs to be retained then at least a couple of floors on top could do it wonders! Like the new apartment that was built on the roof of Droga House in Surry Hills - that couldn't be more different to the original brick warehouse it sits atop, but looks brilliant IMO!

I think I'd have to get a Melbourne architect in to design some sort of surprising/trendy/funky addition to the Mandarin. ;)</td></tr>
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I agree that he Custosm house job is not as sad as Goldsborough, but indeed poor old CH has had a history of being messed around badly. The latest effort has me a bit worried too, though at least the outdoor space looks like it will be less desolate than it now is.

Yes Droga house is fun, though the original brick warehouse really is very undistinctive and the whole layered effect of the adddition is more interestign than either the warehosue alone or a new building. The Mandarin club, while not exciting, has a structue that I'm not sure will benefit froma wild addition. Though maybe it'd be fun...

Just on the issue of how great Mandarin Club is, I dont think that to preserve a building we need to claim it has huge architectural merit, or even that it is especially rare. I think it is a question of preserving the temporal layering - the sense of there being a deep and rich mix of buildings from all periods, with as rich a base of original ones as we can - which is what adds a feeling of reality, depth and history to a city. In Sydney we have lost so much of the built history that we need to preserve what there is wherever possible (even if that means sometimes resorting to facadism). So I guiess even if MC is not a building that you'd walk past and be impressed by, its presence adds to the impression of depth and richness of the built environment.

North apartments yesterday from George St. Not much more sacffholding is being removed.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid63/p9090509aabecf7fc63ae775fe69b1fff/fc17f10e.jpg

More pics, taken today

http://images3.fotki.com/v24/photos/2/22045/232274/north1-vi.jpg

http://images3.fotki.com/v25/photos/2/22045/232274/north2-vi.jpg

WOW! Looks really nice! Nicer than I thought! Top pics Bulwara!
I'll have to take another look at this one when I'm the city tomrrow!

Yeah, I had a look at North (as well as many others) on my walk around the southern CBD and I must say I was rather impressed with North. The blank wall on the western Side wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

Nice work Siedler. A really classy piece of work for sure.

I cant believe they would build a blank wall if it was never going to be built out.

A lost opportunity for the developers to make more cash:D

I've just come back from a southern CBD walk and was VERY IMPRESSED with North ! The wavy balconies look fantastic and give the Goulburn St 'canyon' a real point of difference !
Chalk this project up as a major success for Siedler- the project sold out in days with every apartment selling at absolute premium prices for the southern CBD !

from today!
7 balcs exposed!!

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/06/196433.jpg

The scaffholding is taking forever to come off.

from2day! 8 levels exposed!!

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/509/126northfromnorth.jpg

OMG!!!

Harry is such a knob:ohno:

This precinct is seriously going to be one of the most architecturally diverse around!

With everything from the Post-Modernist Federal Court next to North, to the Art Deco Civic Hotel across the street from North, to the Brutalist Masonic Centre/Civic Tower on the opposite corner, to North itself, and whatever style that is called! ;)

North yesterday

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid65/p020334fcbf4b52ea3a235d4957d9458d/fbe7e054.jpg

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it will also be the most confusing! you will have north apartments across from East apartments but it will be east of east ? lol

I actually thought that "North" was south of "East" ....... ;)

South of east the south CBD continues. East of east you have North. Therefore west of North you are back to east. Kapeet.:)

My pic of NORTH

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~edwin.robertson/mypic21.jpg

Nice picture there AR. I really, really like this Seidler work. It's quite nice really. And the blank wall isn't as bad as I tought it would be... tops!

I also note that there's still some scaffold to come down... Also, would I be right in saying that once Civic is built North will be deprived of a lot of sun?

I agree with you there fro. To me, NORTH seems to blend in well with its surroundings, the curved baloconies contrasting well with the straight lines and dark glass of the courts building next door.

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Shhhh! Don't tell all the people who bought into the development because of the "northerly aspect" (thus the name "North") of the property! ;)

Ooops I thought this was the Common thread. Bye bye.

all the balcs are showing now! just hoarding to be taken away!

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/509/126northbestfront.jpg

Marvellous. It's looking great.

Here is a pic I took just after 4.30PM today - Sunday arvo - 13 levels now exposed:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/509/379north2.jpg

I really like it, colours and all!

'On ya Harry ... you old bastard!

i lurv it! heres a pic from yesterday:

http://www.lewycomputing.com.au/andy/other/north1.jpg

todays pix!

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/509/126northup.jpg

Wow, Harry did a fantastic job with this one. How can the critics complain over this one.

A highly photographic building at that ...........

from Museum towers WOW!
http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/07/201362.jpg

North Yesterday

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid69/p4cd025a408230ba669b659f488e49db3/fbb8b468.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid69/p3cbae571ff7654d8a92f17a5f23d8b7d/fbb8b44f.jpg

The base now fully exposed and hoarding will be gone very soon!

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/07/201506.jpg
Ive also changed north's status on SS.com from UC to completed!!

NORTH, COVE & REX HOUSE are newest scrapers in Sydney!

KPMG has also been sprayed as complete too. It's time too move it in too.

from 2day. the ground floors granite facade was being put up today! looked good.

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/07/205326.jpg

Say, wouldn't it be really classy if Seidler & Assoc. adhered the word 'NORTH' running vertically down the blank western wall. Neoned for night of course. The colours to match the glass dividers - as such:

_________N
_____O
_____R
_____T
_____H

Originally posted by museumb
Say, wouldn't it be really classy if Seidler & Assoc. adhered the word 'NORTH' running vertically down the blank western wall. Neoned for night of course. The colours to match the glass dividers - as such:

_________N
_____O
_____R
_____T
_____H


lol

i need to buy either norths penthouse or horizon's pent house!

I like the idea, it would brighten up the building a bit.

Hey museumb, that would look good......

By the way that was a great Photo of north from Museum Towers

Great photos guys. Harry dun good !!!
I remember the render of this building got a bit of stick on this forum about 12-18 months ago- even I was a bit nervous about the final outcome....however it has all turned out just fine diddly ine. A real point of difference in the southern CBD. !! :cool:

It might of looked a bit strange back then, but it came out just fine.:)

I was walking down Goulburn St today so I just had to take some pics!

http://images4.fotki.com/v39/photos/2/22045/307766/178goulburnst-vi.jpg

http://images4.fotki.com/v38/photos/2/22045/307766/179north-vi.jpg

http://images4.fotki.com/v39/photos/2/22045/307766/181north-vi.jpg

http://images4.fotki.com/v38/photos/2/22045/307766/182north-vi.jpg

finally got the whole completed North in one shot without shade.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/126northsep22.jpg

I completely forgot about this one I snapped from the pool deck in WT back in November 2003. It was looking it's best.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid88/pdf0ffe17ff8ea2a4ab29db75ff116e4b/fa90a12c.jpg

Good Image there but the colours do need to be more
so that NORTH would help