AM30 Office Tower

Failed…

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/property/am30-project-site-on-market/story-fn9656lz-1226680925663

Yuck. Its the 1970s. Reminds me of Melbourne highrise flats.

Another super boring square box for Brisbane! For god sake BCC please do NOT approve this bland,cheap,safe ugly piece of rubbish from destroying more of our skyline.

Brisbane has so many mediocre buildings and non-architectural/anti-architectural buildings that it is a damn shame to hear some of the philistine views expressed on these pages. Wake Up!

Not only do people on these forums loathe anything under 45 stories, their opinions are weighted against anything that resembles tradition. There was a time when skyscrapers were built to represent emperial power. Into the 60’s 70’s they got really ugly and brutalist. In the eighties curtain wall was de rigueur, 90’s ushered in a lot of post-modernism, and now we are seeing a lot of “organic” and “post-post-modern” forms. This building will be perfect height, perfect enough form, and sit excellently next to Donovan/Hill’s other genius work. Just because Brisbane doesn’t have any Bilbao Guggenheims, doesn’s mean there is any need to build “a half conch shell floating on a scrambled sea of repressed surrealist jizz-patina”.

Well said Viv.

I like the proposed function, but am left disappointed by the form. It worries me that Brisbane’s built form style could be considered to be, ‘bland glassy box’, rather than some more befitting of BCC’s, ‘Next World City’! DH has designed some great Brisbane structures, State Library Redux is fantastic, love the verandah. However, there are a few DH disappointments, i.e. SL8 apartments, West End. But, although this isn’t a dud it does seem a shame to not step outside of the box and embrace both Brisbane’s climate and new found sense of adventure for architecture.

I agree with blacknganga, it is very nice for Brisbane, while other cities street ahead with design, let us not have Brisbane do anything that might attract attention. Another lovely box for Brisbane.

Are you by chance a cyclist blacknganga?

Anyway, the height doesnt bother me as much as the lack of any imagination being used for the design. Looks very… cost efficient?

ahhh, another box with no originality. Good to see the architects of brisbane are staying the safe path as always. Come on guys wheres the originality.