Tag: North Adelaide
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‘Unsaveable’: Council to fund demolition of ‘hideous’ Adelaide Aquatic Centre
The Malinauskas Government earlier this month released concept designs for its election pledge to build a new Adelaide Aquatic Centre in North Adelaide. The plan will require the existing council-owned Adelaide Aquatic Centre to close in August 2024 for demolition. The indoor swim facility opened in 1985 and now costs council more than $1m each…
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‘Underwhelming’ $300k North Adelaide artwork benched
The council last night discussed concept designs from South Australian artist Sam Songalio for two permanent glass fibre reinforced concrete sculptures to be installed on the western corner of the Melbourne and Jerningham Street intersection in North Adelaide, opposite the Lion Hotel. The public art proposal includes a 2.5-metre diameter circular structure and a 3.7-metre-long…
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Then and now: Piccadilly Cinema enters a new era
The Piccadilly harks back to Hollywood’s golden age – a time when old-style glamour was embraced and going to the movies was a special occasion for which patrons frocked up in their finest attire. Original owner Dan Clifford opened the art deco cinema in 1940, just a year after the release of Gone With the…
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Big spenders Illuminate Adelaide coffers
The Illuminate Adelaide festival delivered the heightened economic activity through a spectacle of art, light and sound in the drearier winter month of July, with numbers showing the statewide event drew 9863 interstate and overseas visitors to ticketed shows. Tourism Minister Zoe Bettison said it led to businesses in Adelaide’s CBD and North Adelaide recording…
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Developer calls on council to release Le Cornu site contract
Council administration came under fire last month for refusing a Freedom of Information request from North Adelaide residents group leader Robert Farnan. He had sought access to the “Executed Land Facilitation Agreement” signed between developers Commercial & General and the City of Adelaide for the $250m old Le Cornu site project in North Adelaide. The…
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Rex Patrick takes aim at old Le Cornu site secrecy
Patrick, who is weighing up a run for Lord Mayor at November’s council election, has taken up the case of North Adelaide residents group leader Robert Farnan, who filed a freedom of information request to the council in May asking for “all contracts and contractual arrangements pertaining to the current development at 62-100 O’Connell Street”.…
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Decision to bulldoze 150-year-old bluestone deferred
Council Assessment Panel members voted last night in favour of deferring the approval to demolish the single-storey 266 Melbourne Street property in North Adelaide to make way for a four-level apartment block. The recommendation by administration, detailed in their report, was that committee members approve the development plan submitted by Future Urban for The Sunshine…
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Baroque concert hall bid for Tynte Street
Composer and pianist Julian Cochran, who grew up in Adelaide and studied at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, has lodged plans to change the use of a circa-1800s bluestone house on Tynte Street into a performing arts venue. Referred to as a “classical music centre”, the local heritage-listed building has already undergone meticulous renovations inspired…
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Decades of inaction on old Le Cornu site could end today
Several concerned residents will appear before the state’s main planning body, asking it to reject the O’Connell Street development on the grounds that its proposed height and size would look out of place in North Adelaide. The Government Architect has also expressed concerns about the risk of the apartment blocks blocking sunlight from nearby properties.…