Why,why,why?? are we so insecure that we have to call an apartment block The Manhattan?? Is there one in New York called the The Canberra or The Woden? Why not just call it The Downer and be done with it?

Wow! A long way to go from what they have now to what they’ll have in the future. That explains why they’ve blocked off the street so permanently though.

Because a name like “The Downer” won’t attract middle-aged divorcees and cashed-up sociopaths with dreams of living large. Give it a name like “Manhattan” and potential buyers are like moths to a flame.

What exactly are they “digging”?

gazmant said :

What exactly are they “digging”?

roof by the look of it!

willact said :

Why,why,why?? are we so insecure that we have to call an apartment block The Manhattan?? Is there one in New York called the The Canberra or The Woden? Why not just call it The Downer and be done with it?

Agreed. Wankiest name since the Waldorf.

willact said :

Why,why,why?? are we so insecure that we have to call an apartment block The Manhattan?? Is there one in New York called the The Canberra or The Woden? Why not just call it The Downer and be done with it?

Well I used to live in a manhatten apartmnet block called “The Gungahlin”. It was quite a nice place to live but people in other apartment blocks hated it.

rosscoact said :

Well I used to live in a manhatten apartmnet block called “The Gungahlin”. It was quite a nice place to live but people in other apartment blocks hated it.

Comedy Gold.

Why name it at all? I’ve never understood why we feel the need to name residential buildings.

I took a photo of a building called ‘the James Hird Building’ in the UK and my Essendon supporting friend was mightily impressed. I also took a photo of myself outside the ‘Haas Haus’ in Vienna.

In Melbourne they have SoHo, Tribeca etc. It makes me cringe. Is it any different to naming a pub after a monarch ?

You can never have too many blocks of flats.

rosscoact said :

willact said :

Why,why,why?? are we so insecure that we have to call an apartment block The Manhattan?? Is there one in New York called the The Canberra or The Woden? Why not just call it The Downer and be done with it?

Well I used to live in a manhatten apartmnet block called “The Gungahlin”. It was quite a nice place to live but people in other apartment blocks hated it.

Dig up, stupid!

Thats the building that used to have the camerashop near the casino isnt it? Since when does glebe park look like that? Just down the street from where the two school buses got burnt out.. Nice place to live!

The hilarious thing is that you can buy or rent a nice apartment in Manhattan for a similar or smaller amount to what one in this building will go for. Only it is a little easier to justify those sorts of prices in the financial centre of the universe and the most populous city in the Western world, where, you know, there are actual land constraints.

johnboy said :

gazmant said :

What exactly are they “digging”?

roof by the look of it!

Am I missing something though? If you’re going to rip apart a roof of something, surely there are more efficient ways???

gazmant said :

Am I missing something though? If you’re going to rip apart a roof of something, surely there are more efficient ways???

I guess it depends on how it was constructed, what it was constructed with, and what you want to do with it afterwards.

They will break each floor up and push it down the lift shafts for removal until the whole building is gone.

It’s an ACT Government funded perfomance art happening.

someone made a video about it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbnsYqb0yXc

That genius has done another one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qToDancyAoQ

I always thought “the sanctuary” took the biscuit.

Too obvious