SkyPlaza - the location! the colour scheme!

Getting off cars, and back to ugly architecture…
Is there ANY nice architecture in Canberra?
When it comes to ugly houses and flats, the town seems to have the nation-wide monopoly!
And like: what the hell is happening at Gungahlin??? The 80s equivalents of the Northbourne Ave flats, being built in the noughties…
Is there anywhere we can move to that has attractive housing?

Don’t get me wrong lads, I’ve no dramas with utes. They have a special spot in Australia’s cultural heart.

Mael and Ralph, don’t take this personally (as I didn’t know you drove or were buying a ute and I think you both have a fair grip on reality), but anyone who buys a ute because they’re fashionable is a poser. If the tray is utilised; even if it’s a weekend load to the tip then your safe (barely).

It’s just the brigade of ‘soul-bogan’ thirty something IT geeks driving around an SS or Pursuit ute that get my goat. Pack of posing wankers who bring disrepute to the institution that is utility vehicles in this fair country.

I would have thought the prominence of the twin cab ute would be the answer to your prayers

Careful Bulldog, I’ve been slowly manipulating my wife for years in order to persuade her that a ute is our next logical vehicle purchase, for instance, what better than a utility to take the gardenwaste to the dump on a weekend !

Obviously the hidden agenda for me is seeing just how many cartons of beer I can fit in the back without actually killing myself with over consumption.

Anyway, you’re tipping the balance by not supporting the ute…

It’s not just the colour of those flats that’s offensive, it’s the fact they seem to have been thought up in the Harry Triguboff (Meriton) School of Architecture.

It’s possible to make interesting designs for high-rise apartments, but you wouldn’t think that when looking at the boring cookie-cutter boxes piled on top of each other at Woden.

It’s the old three-storey walk up style from the ’50s and ’60s built on a larger scale.

Anything that is a Sportsy Magna or Camry qualifies as well.

Fuck they are gay. Go the front wheel drives! Definately cars for the cardigan wearers.

Alos, anyone driving a ute that doesn’t see tools or soil in the tray would have to qualify.

I already know I’m a bogan, but I guess I can add wanker to the list too now.

Completely untrue Ralph, but I think I left myself wide open for that one

Anything that is a Sportsy Magna or Camry qualifies as well. Just becasue it says ‘VRX’ or ‘Sportivo’ doesn’t change the fact that it’s a Public Servant’s weapon of choice.

Alos, anyone driving a ute that doesn’t see tools or soil in the tray would have to qualify. Why buy a ute if you don’t need one? Wankers, that’s why.

That’d be XR6Ts vg.

Dunno dude, I’m not that into cars.

Just so I can clarify it in my own mind, what sort of cars are soul-bogans driving? WRXs, SS Utes?

RE: The views…. Actually, the views from there would extend over the lake to Civic & lots of things in between. Of course, you’d have to have one of the top (or close to) level apartments.

soul-bogan. nice.

In the spirit of not having seen it yet I’d like to add that it can’t be that bad. Unless of course you are in a position where you can’t not look at it. Doubtful.

I’m fairly certain that the purple you refer to is just undercoat.

well we need to build homes for cashed up garish soul-bogans somewhere

Woden feels about right

My hand is way way up.

In any case, just count your lucky stars it wasn’t built twenty years ago, becasue like everything in Canberra at the time (and even still), it would be mission brown.

Besides, since the NMA we really haven’t had enough monumental eye-sores to complain about.

I think someone will come up with a witty nickname for it before it’s even finished.

I hope to be that person 🙂

I’m reserving my judgement until it’s closer to finished. So far it hasn’t offended me.