27 May 2011

Digger in the sky! Rooftop excavations in Civic

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rooftop digger

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.

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Here’s a wider angle for some perspective.

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Too obvious

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

It’s an ACT Government funded perfomance art happening.

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

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.

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???

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.

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!

Dig up, stupid!

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.

😀

You can never have too many blocks of flats.

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 ?

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

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.

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.

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.

gazmant said :

What exactly are they “digging”?

roof by the look of it!

What exactly are they “digging”?

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.

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.

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?

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