PROJECT : SCStation - 664 Collins

[The Collector]

Lol Garmatt, how many shares do you have in DFO.
No offence there, I often agree with you.

[Mr. Maciek]

i agree, however a more street friendly design should have been chosen, perhaps a huge wall cladded in see through glass with modern steel support posts in a nice modern funky design. judging by the renders, it doesnt seem too inviting because of the bland colour scheme and defiantly not enough glass! - (comming from a melbournian but )

[Garmatt]

No offence taken!
I agree the design is pretty poor....but when you live overseas you often see things in a different light. There's plenty of worse developments going up in other cities in other countries and you never hear them complaining. I think Melbournians are a spoilt lot....but that's what happens when there is a relatively consistent level of good design in one city - something ordinary comes along and it's citizens are hopping mad about it! I think it's great Melbournians are passionate about good design. Who'd have thought that about ANY Aussie city 20 years ago!
I say - build it. It's shit, but it will anchor the area and can be improved upon later when Spencer St. is looking really schmick.
And please stop the complaining about SCS everybody - it's AWESOME!

[Mr. Maciek]

hey i luv scs!... just dont like the tag along building that takes up a whole dam street lol

fair enough you make a good point, we melbournians take pride in our city and what gets built in it. guess we are a lucky bunch

[Eureka!]

Yeah we are spoilt. Fed sq, SCS, Convention Centre, new stadium, eureka etc.etc.
but who cares!!! as if we want crap buildings popping up round the place.

[invincible]

IMO, there's always room for a few anonymous buildings to take up some space, to make sure that we don't just have a bunch of magnificent buildings all competing against each other, leaving buildings with less attention than they deserver.

It's like in a garden, you don't want to put your plants so close that they compete for nutrients.

But with Spencer St being what it is, it's already got its fair share of crapness. Still, I'd like to be optimistic - what's there now is better than what used to be there and it's not like the DFO is going to still be here in 100 years, although I'd expect the station to be.

I must say that the carpark entrance looks a bit weird - if you put the entrance lane on the right, I'd expect to see a lot of head-on collisions.

[Eureka!]

True. And you always need crap spots so people in the future can bulldoze them and make more great buildings.

[ciaobellaxo]

Originally Posted by Grollo

Looking good:

WOW!!

I must get into SCS for a more indepth look! Been a while since I've taken photos of anything in the CBD!!

[mugley]

Glassy bits going up over the carpark entrance

[RSG]

I would just like to say that I believe that this is now the best looking station in Australia.

[Eureka!]

I don't know every station in Australia but it's definatly one of the best!!!!!

[Drunkill]

It's good but the inside is too cluttred, and looks too patchwork. Ashphelt being laid down, then cut into and repoured (looks crap) Poles all over the place.

It could of been much better with a bit more planning/funding.
But i guess it's not finished yet.

[Yardmaster]

Walked through there today. Noticed two Japanese Girls taking photos of the interior. The lighting was poor, so I didn't follow suite.

Bus Terminal still seems far from complete. The edge of platform 15 was under construction, as was an access stairway/escalator to platforms 15/16 (well, the walkway at the top was, anyway). It seems like a glass wall is going to be constructed down the middle of platform 15/16 to keep out the sou-westerlies? Bad luck for platform 16!

Curiously- especially given the rapid rise of buildings in the Docklands Precipent- , the "campus style" office block over platforms 13-16 doesn't seem to have risen much at all, except that the glass roof connecting its base to the Bouke St. Footbridge is being completed.

[Eureka!]

It'll be betteronce all the construction people are gone and all their fences and portables. Also when the roofs green sheets are ogne. (I think all that stuff is still ther?)

[MelbourneCity]

Any chance we can knock down Melbourne Airport's terminals and replace them with a Southern Cross style design?

[Shumway]

Does anyone know about the subway in SCS? That walkways have been blocked off for months now with no signs of being opened up again...

[tayser]

probably private / station access only from now on.

[Shumway]

Really? I thought they were would always be opened back up, and that they were only closed beacause they were being revamped as well, hence the walkaways remaining there etc..

[BroadGauge]

With the subway from the other side of Spencer St into the station, there are sort of temporary boards in the floor that you walk over directly opposite the subway entry on the other side of the street, and they have a new sign on the Savoy side, so I dare say it may be re-opened.

As for the one to the platforms (which used to meet-up with that one), that is service access only now, but you see trespassers walking down there

Does anyone know when DFO & Coles are supposted to open?

[A r c h i]

According to the Atlantis tower website DFO's supposed to open in November.