Towers of Belconnen advertising Belconnen Towers

neanderthalsis said :

20 stories? It’s an outrage….

It will no doubt be an eyesore much like the single “high-rise” out at Woden that sticks out like dogs balls on a cat in an otherwise lowrise setting.

how can anyone be so conservative, so resistant to change?

Kerryhemsley said :

God forbid that you have an eyesore in Belco.

Can only improve what is one ugly burb.

+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 :

Any links to ‘artists impressions’? Can’t find much about this.

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.

AsparagusSyndrome said :

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

We actually do have Seidler buildings in Canberra.

Edmund Barton Building for one.

When I was a kid I used to call it “the building with the studs on it”.

AsparagusSyndrome said :

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

We actually do have Seidler buildings in Canberra.

Edmund Barton Building for one.

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 :

I understand thant psychiatrists generally refer to this type of building as a ‘suicide tower’

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.

And even less parking in Belconnen…….