:colgate: so is his just another excuse to build another foot bridge??? lol
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Here is how the site used to look:
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This will easily be the largest and the best convention centre in Australia and will be fully intergrated with the largest and the best exhibition centre in Austrlia.
It is not supposed to be an iconic building for the arts, it is a money making machine for Melbourne and will look better than every other convention centre/exhibition centre in Australia.
If you want to see iconic architecture all you will have to do it take a short walk across to southabnk and you will come across this:
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and this:
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It is not supposed to be an iconic building for the arts, it is a money making machine for Melbourne and will look better than every other convention centre/exhibition centre in Australia.
If you want to see iconic architecture all you will have to do it take a short walk across to southabnk and you will come across this:
and this:
I will freely admit that:
-I had a premature bitch session about how the Bracks government was going to delay and diminish from and probably hamstring this development through indecision and timidity.
-I also wanted to see an 'iconic' globally memorable structure go up, more out of my remaining vestige of parochial sentimentality than anything else.
I was wrong on both counts. Government ministers have taken a ballsy decision on the much more substantial proposal, and took far less time doing it than I thought they would. (Some of you that have pilloried me for being a Bracks bashing whinger should note that down for posterity. I credited the Bracks government with something; good heavens the end must be nigh!
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I agree with the prevailing sentiment that this building did not need to be iconic more than it needed to pursue more worthwhile objectives:
-the fantastic river frontage and interaction between promenade and building; if a building like this doesn't work at ground level it doesn't work at all. By the looks of it the manner in which the CC interacts with the riverside is its finest selling point.
-the six star energy rating which, from an economic-viability standpoint
is bloody difficult to comply with.
Melbourne is not and never will be known for a singular iconic structure or structures, but rather for the originality and class that pervades all of the better designed public buildings. Just because a building screams 'look at me' does not make it a good building; nor a kind of building that should be sought after by a city seeking to aspire to more substantial ideals than appearance.
Melbourne always has.
Question: the word was earlier that the entire development was going to go up at about the same time; surely this does not include the residential towers?
Blabby, the interaction between Jeff's Shed and the CC will probably work better at ground level and in practise than it does in the renders.
Blue
-I had a premature bitch session about how the Bracks government was going to delay and diminish from and probably hamstring this development through indecision and timidity.
-I also wanted to see an 'iconic' globally memorable structure go up, more out of my remaining vestige of parochial sentimentality than anything else.
I was wrong on both counts. Government ministers have taken a ballsy decision on the much more substantial proposal, and took far less time doing it than I thought they would. (Some of you that have pilloried me for being a Bracks bashing whinger should note that down for posterity. I credited the Bracks government with something; good heavens the end must be nigh!
) I agree with the prevailing sentiment that this building did not need to be iconic more than it needed to pursue more worthwhile objectives:
-the fantastic river frontage and interaction between promenade and building; if a building like this doesn't work at ground level it doesn't work at all. By the looks of it the manner in which the CC interacts with the riverside is its finest selling point.
-the six star energy rating which, from an economic-viability standpoint
is bloody difficult to comply with.
Melbourne is not and never will be known for a singular iconic structure or structures, but rather for the originality and class that pervades all of the better designed public buildings. Just because a building screams 'look at me' does not make it a good building; nor a kind of building that should be sought after by a city seeking to aspire to more substantial ideals than appearance.
Melbourne always has.
Question: the word was earlier that the entire development was going to go up at about the same time; surely this does not include the residential towers?
Blabby, the interaction between Jeff's Shed and the CC will probably work better at ground level and in practise than it does in the renders.
Blue
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