Grey Street Tower – Aria’s latest proposal

Like the design but this building looks like it took forever to build.Friend of mine bought into the development and has had to find temporary accommodation for 6 months before he can move it – very inconvenient.

just love the name…. sounds nice… reminiscent…

a full third of the site lies in the flood plain. And it was isolated by the 2011 floods. Some say ‘no development is an island’, but this one will be, every time we have a major rain/flood event.
Plus the state govt pulled this site from two previous sale processes.
Any suggestion that Sth Brisbane’s multi-billion dollar cultural and social investments havent ‘revitalised’ the suburb are fanciful in the extreme.
Aria’s track record is to over-promise and underwhelm in delivery.
Being a little more pragmatic, does anyone want to explain the future traffic impacts onto one of the state’s most dangerous intersections right next door at Grey St & Melb St?

I’m almost 100% certain that retention of the external facade is a requirement due to it’s ‘commercial character’ although it’s not on the heratige register Aria would stuggle to secure DA without it’s incorporation.

I disagree with you guys stating that building look crap with white paint. It look fantastic, especially by the fact that it blends so well with other contract colour paintings and it goes very well with historical building down at the ground floor. It also signifies on how modern it is and how well designed it is.

This will revolutionise South Brisbane.

Oh.. yes,you’re right; a resi tower, not commercial… You’re right about the building looking crap with the white paint; without the paint, everyone would see how fine the building is and might protest it’s virtual demolition. It deservers to stand as an internally integral structure, I think. Maybe the proposal would be more attractive if the tower part above our old building was left out and instead the tower wrapped around the back/right of it. The proposed building is a little too heavily stacked for my liking, anyway

Well, Eric, if you are a fan of “artifice within architecture”, then this is your cup of tea. I like it when the facade is maintained, gutted, and then made to look as if it was still functional as designed, but here we see what is obviously an historic facade with an unrelated modern building above; they may as well knock the whole thing down, and then knock every early 1900s building in the area down, because this new building ruins the character of that side of the street. There are many better sites for commercial towers.

blacknganga, Aria are giving this building an injection of life by restoring the original external brick and creating a vibrant retail environment below. Most developers would simply knock it down, Aria should be congratulated for enhancing the character of the current site. This is a very very good proposal.

Developers often have disdain for old buildings, exemplified here.

The contemporary looking facadism is fantastic. Love that it preserves what was previously there and incorporates it into something new. There should be (and should have been) a lot more of it in development in this city.