Approved» Regent, Hilton-Wintergarden Redevelopment: (40F/158m/Office)

[bne123]

haha smart state
im a proud queenslander but what they are doing right now isint smart
the Regent theater is dead in the 70s when the original theater was destroyed.
I support them saving the foyer but just having a cinema i believe is wasting one of the most expensive piece of block in the CBD

[SoulVision]

I was at the Regent the other day, the foyer is magnificent.

It's a real crime that they smashed the actual theatre down, what a waste. Nothing like a grand old big cinema. They must have been out of their minds:



In a perfect world I'd like them to reconstruct the theatre as it was, they do this all the time in Europe, why not here? Reconstruct the theatre and then let the developer build their tower around it, maybe given them some height concessions and other relaxations to compensate. I'm all for redeveloping most of the site but feel that we can do that AND include the old theatre. It is just a question of will.

Whilst this proposal does have a lot of great aspects, the fact remains that the cinema heritage in a functionality sense will be lost for good (granted it presently is pretty rubbish with the 70's theatres), but it still carries on a certain function. Being reduced to a hall way for middle aged business men to walk through is hardly an optimum outcome.

So the redevelopment represents a great opportunity to fix past wrongs. Rebuild the old cinema. It can be done, it's not a herculean task like flying to the moon. Then we can still do the rest of the cool modern stuff around that, if anything it's just a challenge for the architects.

If I were a billionaire, I would pay to replicate the theatre myself... but unfortunately without being a billionaire, its financially inviable, for a developer too.

[bne123]

but even we have the money
we need the original plan of the theater
anyone know if the council keeps a plan for these commercial buildings as a record?

[bris-vegas93]

umm yeah there would be some sort of law that they have to keep them for so many years im sure.

[KJBrissy]

Height corrected.