27 May 2011

Digger in the sky! Rooftop excavations in Civic

27 May 2011 | johnboy

Something you don’t see every day is an excavator digging on a rooftop in the middle of Civic.

Skyscraper City has details of what they’re trying to get to on Akuna Street at what will become the Manhattan Apartments.

Here’s a wider angle for some perspective.

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Mumbucks12:04 am 26 Nov 11

Too obvious

Mumbucks12:02 am 26 Nov 11

I always thought “the sanctuary” took the biscuit.

BigTacoBandit11:22 pm 25 Nov 11

That genius has done another one

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

BigTacoBandit6:31 pm 09 Jul 11

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

PantsMan7:40 pm 28 May 11

It’s an ACT Government funded perfomance art happening.

Nameless2:58 pm 28 May 11

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

deye12:58 am 28 May 11

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.

gazmant11:14 pm 27 May 11

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???

arescarti429:56 pm 27 May 11

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.

gooterz6:55 pm 27 May 11

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!

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