Proposals & UC- 35m-99m skyscrapers (lowrise)

[PD]

If it is 90m - 100m it will be the tallest building outside of the CBD/East Perth.

[Ben1985]

50 shades of bland anyone

Originally Posted by CULWULLA

packers ccrown hotel and casino for perth
looks about 90m. nice
dilaz

[Citystyle]

^ Pretty crude concept render.

[invincible]

If it's anything like the finish they've got on Crown Metropol then it will still turn out great.

[Meldon]

I love it.

[Brizer]

Sydney: Green Square Town Centre - urban renewal area.

After years of planning, since 1997!, the first actual, concrete proposal for a building for the new town centre has finally been lodged and its DA is now on exhibition at the Sydney Council website.

301 Botany Road, corner of Bourke Street, Zetland; the former Newell site, now occupied by Nissan, but, you can only hope, not for much longer.

Architect: Stanisic Associates Architects.

Rising to 18 storeys & 60.7m. Two towers on 8 & 10 storey podium, giving total 18 storeys.
Retail on lower floors (5000m²) and 346 apartments.
$114m.
The site is across the Botany Road from the Green Square Railway Station.


View shows Botany Road crossing left to centre right with the future Green Square plaza on the right with the row of trees.
NB. the blank blocks indicate future buildings, not part of this proposal.


View of Bourke Street front with future Ebsworth Street front on the left. Here you can see the two towers.
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[Alphaville]

Was visiting a friend in Zetland last week and they have a flyer on their kitchen table (from junk mail) regarding a protest against the "overdevelopment" of the Green Square/Waterloo/Zetland area. Hilarious. Same old rubbish "INCREASED TRAFFIC" "OVERSHADOWING" "NOT ENOUGH INFRASTRUCTURE", seriously frustrating shit. If that part of Sydney isn't ripe for high density development, then fuck knows where in the world is? It's right on a higher frequency underground railway hub, near the Eastern Distributor, dozens of bus routes directly into the city, it has shops and public services at Redfern and Waterloo....

[Extare]

Not to mention the planned light rail, automatic waste collection, green energy generation etc.

[Brizer]

And around 40,000m² of retail planned and under construction plus a huge amount of commercial space.
Those objecting are often in the couple of pockets of relatively intact Victorian house blocks around Portman, Elizabeth and Hansard streets though the quality of the surviving stock is patchy, and there would barely be 100 houses all told isolated amid hectares and hectares of largely derelict industrial land.
Up until the 1990s, the area was a smelly, noisy, traffic-ridden industrial slum!
Some objectors live across the 6 to 7 lane South Dowling Street/ED in Kensington or down in Rosebery a good kilometre and more away.
They just don't want change as change seems to fill them with some sort of primordial fear.
Tough titties, scaredy cats. Get used to it, and assorted other dismissive phrases. It is truly pathetic hearing them banging on, their voices choked with emotion and all you want to do is smack them to bring them to their senses. I think they spend their life watching reruns of 'The Castle' sobbing all the while.
Can you tell I've run out of sympathy for them?

[Fabian]

Originally Posted by Alphaville

Was visiting a friend in Zetland last week and they have a flyer on their kitchen table (from junk mail) regarding a protest against the "overdevelopment" of the Green Square/Waterloo/Zetland area. Hilarious. Same old rubbish "INCREASED TRAFFIC" "OVERSHADOWING" "NOT ENOUGH INFRASTRUCTURE", seriously frustrating shit. If that part of Sydney isn't ripe for high density development, then fuck knows where in the world is? It's right on a higher frequency underground railway hub, near the Eastern Distributor, dozens of bus routes directly into the city, it has shops and public services at Redfern and Waterloo....

It should be ignored. When you look at that area, you notice how underdeveloped it actually is. Green Square Station even with the development and removal of station access fees is somewhat underutilised.

[Alphaville]

Originally Posted by Fabian

It should be ignored. When you look at that area, you notice how underdeveloped it actually is. Green Square Station even with the development and removal of station access fees is somewhat underutilised.

Ive always been slightly perplexed at the fact that Green Square was opened when it was. It would have seemed more "responsible" to build the shell of the station back in the late 90's, but not actually opened it until the area had densified more substantially.

[Brizer]

It would make matters much worse if the station were not operating. More people are using it & patronage has gone up considerably. It was built to cater for the town centre and surrounding areas in an unusually foresightful action on the part of the powers that be.

Although progress on the town centre at Green Square is painfully slow labouring under a relentless load of bureaucracy, it is finally stirring to life and having the station open and operating is a major catalyst.

Most planning here is done backwards; in this case it is getting it right, but commercial greed in both enforcing the extra fees for so long and the GFC have hindered progress despite the station being there. Now things are happening and there will be something like 7000 workers and 5000 residents working and living in just the small area of the town centre by 2030, which doesn't account for all the other new residents and workers coming in to all the other developments within a 1-2km radius of the station.

[Fabian]

Originally Posted by Alphaville

Ive always been slightly perplexed at the fact that Green Square was opened when it was. It would have seemed more "responsible" to build the shell of the station back in the late 90's, but not actually opened it until the area had densified more substantially.

If ypou want to get people in the habit of using public transport, its always better to have the station built in the early stages of development of an area or in this case early stages of redevelopment. It will help foster the habit of using public transport.

[crawf]

Couple from Adelaide

58-76 Franklin Street
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20120731-IMGP8782 by Buildings of..., on Flickr

Uno Apartments
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Palladio Apartments are now on public notification


Gives you an idea of what kind of impact it will make on this part of the city. Cheers to Ben @ SA

[Alphaville]

Go Adelaide! You dense little beast!

[Citystyle]

That second one is stunning. How precast should be done.

[crawf]

Adelaide - taken by phenom @ Sen Adel

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

APPROVED - 150 Epping Road, Lane Cove West

Originally Posted by upwards

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This document suggests the final design will be similar to the renders shown above.

https://majorprojects.affinitylive.c...20Part%203.pdf

The taller tower will be ~78.6m to top of roof (and taller to top of architectural feature). The shorter tower will be ~32m to top of roof (and taller to top of architectural feature).

In total;
- 400 residential apartments
- 800 sq m commercial
- 742 sq m retail

[PD]

That looks cool, futuristic.

[Mornnb]

And it's just a bushwalk away from employment. This tower is actually surrounded by bush. There's a thin national park that runs through this area, and Macquarie Park is rather close too, where Microsoft, Optus and others have their HQ. I love this areas bizarre mix. Wild bushland, a university, suburban houses, and corporate headquarters.
The site is here.