Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Doctor Feel]

A lot of the great and famous cities of Europe don't have a tall skyline.

**** europe

 

[Lagooner]

Adelaide is not the place for supertall skyscrapers, especially with the airport being so close to town.

I reckon it should try and separate itself from the herd by going down the "interesting" architecture path, as opposed to gunning for out and out size. Maybe have a bit of a theme for all new developments, whether that be a certain material or colour or style.

I like the way AO combines the red brick with the white canopies, a bit of old and new mixed together. It looks mint and the white really lends itself to those coloured light projections. The Entertainment Centre dome thingo has a similar vibe and I've seen them do it on the Festival Centre as well.

Maybe that could be Adelaide's thing. Build a shitload of white buildings and then colonel light them up at night.

 

[Portia]

If there is anything that makes Adelaide not a real city, its having so much low density housing so close to the CBD.

eg. Kent Town is OK, but add the proposed tram line and change the zoning regs, it could be the sort of high density residential/light commercial area that every real city has at least one of.

 

[Papa G]

If there is anything that makes Adelaide not a real city, its having so much low density housing so close to the CBD.

eg. Kent Town is OK, but add the proposed tram line and change the zoning regs, it could be the sort of high density residential/light commercial area that every real city has at least one of.

The ****ing Parklands have always been a hinderance to that inner city/higher density inner suburbs.

 

[Portia]

Yeah true. The southern parklands are a complete waste. There are no views and just far too much of the traditional boring grass fields with occasional tree

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Malcolm Turnbull waxing on about his father "we were all each other had" nonsense really sums up campaigning doesn't it

 

[Dylan8]

There are no views and just far too much of the traditional boring grass fields with occasional tree

Would you stop giving England so much shit damn

 

[Lagooner]

Yeah true. The southern parklands are a complete waste. There are no views and just far too much of the traditional boring grass fields with occasional tree

They have almost no public utility, same goes for the western parklands. Apart from the odd game of school sport there is no reason for anyone to go there.

It's nice to have some green space in the city to break things up but an open field doesn't really do much for anyone.

 

[Papa G]

They have almost no public utility, same goes for the western parklands. Apart from the odd game of school sport there is no reason for anyone to go there.

It's nice to have some green space in the city to break things up but an open field doesn't really do much for anyone.

Parts of the south and west parklands are barren wastelands and an enormous misuse of prime realestate that serves virtually no pupose. But try doing anything with them and the naysayers will shit their pantaloons.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Lol the parklands are bizarre. We could transform a big patch into a central park type thing if we wanted to, and build on the rest. There is genuinely no reason for so much unused parklands. It all looks like a featureless wasteland anyway. If we had a bigger city we could possibly do more to attract big business here. I don't think we make the best use of our central location whatsoever, so much untapped potential as we are ruled by anne moran the ****ing queen shedevil NIMBY.

 

[I Dont Care]

1.2 million people by any world standard is a big city. The whole US super city thing blurs people's perspective a bit. Adelaide also possibly cops the "country town" thing a bit due (currently) to the lack of a freeway system and decent rail network.

Anything over 10,000 is a city

 

[Big Dix]

Adelaide doesn't have the demand for skyscrapers anyway. Sure, in a few years time we'll see a building taller than the Westpac tower, but don't expect any giants like the Eureka to be popping up here.

 

[edgie]

The parklands in Adelaide look shit when it's in drought anyway. If I wanted endless plains of brown I'd go back to where I came from.

The Adelaide is just like a big country town herp derp annoys me, anywhere that's big enough to get lost in is not a "big country town" get ******

*May or may not have got lost in Canberra once

When my uncle moved back to town with his new partner who had lived in Radelaide his whole life, he manged to get lost in Broken Hill continuously for the first few weeks! Not since some teacher from the city game out and gambled away all his money in a game of two-up has a bloke gotten lost so badly here.

 

[Andre]

Lol the parklands are bizarre. We could transform a big patch into a central park type thing if we wanted to, and build on the rest. There is genuinely no reason for so much unused parklands. It all looks like a featureless wasteland anyway. If we had a bigger city we could possibly do more to attract big business here. I don't think we make the best use of our central location whatsoever, so much untapped potential as we are ruled by anne moran the ******* queen shedevil NIMBY.

The only bit of the parklands that 'works' is between the CBD / North Adelaide / AO etc., because it's between used areas. The West and South (and to a lesser extent the East as their are facilities there), are just a division between the city and suburbs. The complete opposite of useful, except when the occasional use of an otherwise spartan field takes place. If they are going to have them, at least have a bloody exemption from the 'no water rules', so it doesn't mimic a desert. If it all actually looked decent and had decent facilities it'd be a start. It's the cheap arse, not good at anything right now.

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Yea I think we need a few hideous gigantic glass tower type things to get in on the modern western uber great city scene.

Needs an Adelaide Eye as part of the Riverbank precinct

 

[Steve Dore]

Lol the parklands are bizarre. We could transform a big patch into a central park type thing if we wanted to, and build on the rest. There is genuinely no reason for so much unused parklands. It all looks like a featureless wasteland anyway. If we had a bigger city we could possibly do more to attract big business here. I don't think we make the best use of our central location whatsoever, so much untapped potential as we are ruled by anne moran the ******* queen shedevil NIMBY.

I agree that much of the parklands is an underutilised wasteland but to claim that not being able to build on the parklands is somehow holding back Adelaide economically is fanciful.

 

[Papa G]

The only bit of the parklands that 'works' is between the CBD / North Adelaide / AO etc., because it's between used areas. The West and South (and to a lesser extent the East as their are facilities there), are just a division between the city and suburbs. The complete opposite of useful, except when the occasional use of an otherwise spartan field takes place. If they are going to have them, at least have a bloody exemption from the 'no water rules', so it doesn't mimic a desert. If it all actually looked decent and had decent facilities it'd be a start. It's the cheap arse, not good at anything right now.

The vast area east of La Fevre Terrace and Medindie Road that has about 4 horses roaming on it is the definition of stupidity and I shake my head at it daily.

 

[chiwigi]

If there is anything that makes Adelaide not a real city, its having so much low density housing so close to the CBD.

eg. Kent Town is OK, but add the proposed tram line and change the zoning regs, it could be the sort of high density residential/light commercial area that every real city has at least one of.

There is a lot going up in and around the city, there are also stamp duty concessions encouraging people to buy them. Unfortunately they will just turn into student dives.
We don't want the situation of Sydney and Melbourne, whereby half of them are empty 'investments.

 

[chiwigi]

Lol the parklands are bizarre. We could transform a big patch into a central park type thing if we wanted to, and build on the rest. There is genuinely no reason for so much unused parklands. It all looks like a featureless wasteland anyway. If we had a bigger city we could possibly do more to attract big business here. I don't think we make the best use of our central location whatsoever, so much untapped potential as we are ruled by anne moran the ******* queen shedevil NIMBY.

This is not true.
The parklands don't stop growth, there is plenty of empty office space in the city already.

 

[Steve Dore]

There is a lot going up in and around the city, there are also stamp duty concessions encouraging people to buy them. Unfortunately they will just turn into student dives.
We don't want the situation of Sydney and Melbourne, whereby half of them are empty 'investments.

Apartment oversupply in Australia reaches 70,000

 

[Eddie Dingle]

There is a lot going up in and around the city, there are also stamp duty concessions encouraging people to buy them. Unfortunately they will just turn into student dives.
We don't want the situation of Sydney and Melbourne, whereby half of them are empty 'investments.

Mine are all fully rented.

Zakk Wylde oh mighty slumlord how are yours going?

 

[Papa G]

Anybody that buys a high rise apartment in Adelaide is silly for the following reasons:
Adelaide is not a high rise city.
Adelaide is not a congested city.
There is and never has been an appetite for high rise living in Adelaide as Adelaide house prices, even 5km from the city are still reasonable.
Outside an hour of peak twice a day, traffic isn't that bad.
Strata fees are usually exorbitant.
Resale is shit because there's always a new one being built, and there will be an over supply.

If any of you get conned into a one of those property spruiking seminars, just do not do it.

I'm all for making the city more densely populated, vibrant, blah blah, but these high rise apartments are a very poor investment.

 

[Portia]

There is a lot going up in and around the city, there are also stamp duty concessions encouraging people to buy them. Unfortunately they will just turn into student dives.
We don't want the situation of Sydney and Melbourne, whereby half of them are empty 'investments.

Well yeah, it won't work if there keep being new land releases and expensive highways to make living 50k from the CBD doable.

 

[finbarr]

The parklands were originally bought up by Anne Moran's forebears to be turned into a moat in order to prevent the great unwashed from the suburbs coming into their puritan city centre*.






*may not be true.

 

[NoddyHolder]

parklands are great. What's wrong with you people?