Complete» Wheel of Brisbane & Q150 Celebrations

[Shumway]

Cities have to be careful though. Real icons evole naturally, they arent planned and built with the intention of being an icon. If you do that, then nine time out of ten you end up with a white elephant or an eyesore that achieves nothing it sets out to do. My 2c.

[neilo63]

Cities have to be careful though. Real icons evole naturally, they arent planned and built with the intention of being an icon. If you do that, then nine time out of ten you end up with a white elephant or an eyesore that achieves nothing it sets out to do. My 2c.

Yes, look at Melbourne's Federation Square v Eureka tower. One planned icon one not.

[ggm]

talking 'real icons' -the storey bridge is a wonderful example of a utilitarian outcome: a bridge over the river -which becomes a visual icon and a bit of a cultural symbol. Some of the city-glimpses of the Bridge are my favourite views of Brisbane. (another good one is the view from the s.e. freeway at Griffith Uni)

I think the marriage of the bridge, the city, and kangaroo pt is amazing. Also amazingly fragile: the kangaroo pt development has to cap off soon. likewise the city-side foreshore of skyscrapers. Not "build no more" but a little bit "build somewhere else"

knocking down cloudlands was an example of the worst of the Joh era. No sense of the cultural validity of the place, the personal stories bound up in it. I think more people of the right age mourn the loss of cloudlands than any other building in Brisbane.

Integrating Roma St with the city heart is going to be interesting to watch. The residences over the railway on the Roma St Parkland side are lovely, but its a wastland from there up to the Dental hospital over the tracks, and beside the courts. It needs shops, street frontage, cafes. Not just tower blocks, not just law offices.

[bris-vegas93]

yeah totally agree defintly need more stand out icons. some info brisbane is one of the only cities in the world witha beach in it or near it. that is a man made one not lik ethe gold coast or something like e.g the southbank beach in southbank. so basicly a man made beach yeah i read it somewhere.

[bne123]

but how can a beach become a landmark?

the new advertising proposal for Brisbane

"Brisbane: The City with a beach inside it!"

imagine that

i reckon, the brisbane city should fully support Lone Pine because
every major city have a major zoo and brisbane is lacking one