#UC (Basement only): 111+222 - 37st/160m & 90st/270m/mixed

[SoulvisionQ1]

Renders are up:







Amazing bright green pond:

[Levathian]

I am loving this already

Why isn't it 333m tall? That would be more logical imho (111+222). There should be a 222m one, a 333m one and perhaps a 111m little brother? or am I aiming too high? lol

[KJBrissy]

It looks like there is one floor above the plant rooms. Ballroom? Observation Deck? Penthouse?

[nathandavid88]

I'm hoping an observation deck-cum-ballroom/function room, and maybe even a bar to go with it. Similar to Q1's Skydeck. Imagine something like a school formal or a gala ball held up there with the incredible view, or just to go up there for a drink with your significant other...

Better stop daydreaming before I drool over my keyboard!

Also, the vision hole looks like it's filled with Nuclear Waste or something in that photo! Pumping it out will be an interesting exercise!

[CULWULLA]

well thats what i was thinking, seeing the out of place LMR which rises slightly asbove glass parapet? maybe lift core to observatory level? also whats with large seidler esqe windows near top? aka riparian?

[KJBrissy]

Don't get the Seidler comparison.

[t3x]

That looks like a cool tall tower, i was loosing hope of ever getting something descent in this spot.

So this has been approved? how long can we excpect to wait until it gets started?

[SoulvisionQ1]

lol, no its not even submitted yet.

I reckon there is a rooftop bar associated with the 5 star hotel. This has been done for the Peninsula in HK and repeated in a few other cities like Bangkok.

Why? Because judging by that render, SOMETHING will go there... It's two empy floors above the (possible) plant floors.

I have a feeling Billbergia will use this rooftop bar idea as a key element to attract a good hotel tenant... Like the Peninsula or Shangri la hotel.

It looks like it would be an open air bar too. The floor below that might be an observation floor for the public (like the skydeck in Eureka).

Hope it's not the penthouse like what vision did, wasn't a fan of that aspect of it.

[CULWULLA]

Originally Posted by KJBrissy

Don't get the Seidler comparison.

the large black window openings near roof?
seidler has that on most of his bldgs.


ps- ive noticed the 5 floors above the typical office floor.? would be cool if they were hotel of convention ob deck. then theres the 2 elevls above plantroom which look interesting?

[SoulvisionQ1]

Channel Seven just said approval could take a year!? Surely that is wrong given the history of tall proposals on this site?

[Wezza]

I'm hoping that glass is something like 111 Eagle St.

[brizguy]

Originally Posted by SoulvisionQ1

Channel Seven just said approval could take a year!? Surely that is wrong given the history of tall proposals on this site?

I doubt it, DAs rarely take that long,

Any ideas on construction?

Im guessing.....

Mid 2012- Carpark Complete
Late 2012 - 34 begins construction
Mid 2013 - 90 starts

[Oriolus]

The more pictures I see the more I realise how huge this thing is. It sooo f&%#ing huge. It just seems to go up and up for ages. Dwarfs everything else in the skyline. And I agree with the Seidler comparisons, I doubt its any coincidence that it complements Riverside Centre in shape and Riparian in plant structures quite well.

Lets hope Billgergia haven't been TOO ambitious with this - 790 apartments is a lot to sell. It just has to happen though. Imagine how crushing it would be for us for 111+222 ending up been scrapped as well.

[SkyBoy]

Originally Posted by Dimethyltryptamine

OMFG *drools*

[shuan]

Really hope this one goes ahead, better design than Vision IMO. Just don't like the roof design on the smaller tower. Let's keep our fingers crossed. Brisbane could be one of the greatest cities in the world in four our five years time. Too bad the flood happened, but we will recover from that. If we can get a few decent inner city developments as well as build first class infrasructure, then Brisbane will be a great place!

Guess I'm an eternal optimist. Brisbane could be very different in just three or four years time. And I agree with other posters here, quite a few wnkrs who write to the CM newspaper. Guess they would prefer endless urban sprawl everywhere.......lol!

[Locke]

Yeah the best thing about this tower is that it is a straight up vertical glass facade for 300m! I mean that is going to appear TALL, no matter how you look at it.

[ck5]

Originally Posted by SoulvisionQ1

Channel Seven just said approval could take a year!? Surely that is wrong given the history of tall proposals on this site?

There should be no shadowing issues in the approval process - according to the renders this tower does not have any..... :P

[Samuel77]

There is a disturbance in the force - i can feel the nimbys starting to get agitated - starting to coalesce into groups. Before long they will rise up to try and raze this building to the ground.

[finn]

Originally Posted by Oriolus

Lets hope Billgergia haven't been TOO ambitious with this - 790 apartments is a lot to sell. It just has to happen though. Imagine how crushing it would be for us for 111+222 ending up been scrapped as well.

Most of Billbergia developments are around that size (800+ apartments) however they are generally staged in numerous smaller (much smaller!) buildings. I wonder if this tower could be staged considering the three distinct sections of the tower? Which section will house the hotel I wonder?

[Locke]

Meh, it'll get approved, that's not a big deal, give it 6 months.