Last month the world marvelled at mysterious towering structures adorning the Belconnen skyline.
What were they for?
Today Kazza The Blank One has sent in pictures to solve the mystery.
It seems they’re advertising the whopping 20 storey Sentinel Apartments soon to be constructued.
But we don’t have billboards in the ACT. Nosiree.
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neanderthalsis said :
how can anyone be so conservative, so resistant to change?
Kerryhemsley said :
+1
It really is. I’d love to see Belco used as a training ground for bulldozer drivers and demolition experts.
God forbid that you have an eyesore in Belco.
Can only improve what is one ugly burb.
cubicle01 said :
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1477798
Don’t know how accurate it is. But sure is a shocker.
That’s one of the nicest pieces of public art that I have seen so far anywhere in Canberra.
Obviously it represent the despised glass-ceiling that women constantly face in the workplacee – with the ribbed sections near he bottom representing the points at which a woman can ascend to, only to be stopped by the cruel and vile vinyl clad sides which stifle any future upward motion and travel.
The only thing this particular work lacks is a shopping trolley on the top – to represent the pouring of scorn and hateful words down upon the women trapped below the glass-ceiling, by their more successful males colleagues.
Thumper said :
When I was a kid I used to call it “the building with the studs on it”.
Thumper said :
There was a modest and quite lovely Seidler house in Yapunyah Street O’Connor which was knocked down in 2007:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canberrahouse/1900928502/
It sold for $650,000.
I haven’t gone back to see what is there instead.
Any links to ‘artists impressions’? Can’t find much about this.
colourful sydney racing identity said :
Not quite, suicide towers are ones with the corridors on the outside. IIRC the only example in Canberra are the Currong flats. Or if I’ve got the name wrong the high rise part of the ABC flats between Ballumbir and Currong Sts in Braddon.
AsparagusSyndrome said :
We actually do have Seidler buildings in Canberra.
Edmund Barton Building for one.
And even less parking in Belconnen…….
I wonder if the name is intended to evoke memories of the C64 game which featured somewhat similar architecture?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_(video_game)
Sky Plaza really is a terrible looking building, like a gargantuan cross between a prefab concrete warehouse somewhere in Fyshwick and a multi story car park.
Hopefully the developers of Sentinel will employ architects.
If it’s ugly enough, we might be lucky enough to get it heritage listed, like the Seidler designed Blues Point Tower in Sydney
http://www.flickr.com/photos/graemegillmerimages/5946035350/
But lacking our own Seidler, we may have to settle for a building looking more like a big owl…
http://the-riotact.com/ok-the-owl-might-be-a-teensy-bit-phallic-from-the-right-angle/45131
If we had light rail i wouldnt mind the loss of car parks as much!
There goes another 100-or-so car parks….
So this is Sentinel Park. Better than Sydney’s…
colourful sydney racing identity said :
I think they have a more Freudian interpretation.
I just hope the resulting building isn’t painted pale yellow with a hole in it. Still marvelling at how that pile o crap won an award. Sometimes I suspect that it’s an elaborate “work of art” from Mr Stanhope’s gang of art buddies.
Maybe the building will be like a very large shipping container, up-ended.
I think building up in city centres makes a lot more sense than building out. I just hope it doesn’t look as awful as Sky Plaza. That building is disgustingly coloured.