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Posted by Yen Trinh on November 5, 2009 | 1 COMMENT

I stumbled across this un-dated photo of Adelaide St and City Hall, and it makes me marvel at how cities change over time.  This week, at a Brisbane Institute panel discussion on building successful cities, I watched as James Tuma from Urbis had to defend their new King George Square design to a rather unimpressed gentleman.  Love it or hate it – I certainly do like that it is enticing some public debate about the quality, use and function of our public spaces.  Even critics would have to agree it’s better than it’s former state as a car park.

 
  • Troy

    Perhaps an unfair comparison – the photograph is from 1968 – The Brisbane City Council had bought all the buildings along Albert Street, opposite Brisbane City Hall, and at the time of this photograph, had just demolished them – this scene was visible for less than a year, before the BCC started extending King George Square north across Albert Street.

    If you look closely at where the cars are parked, you'll see there's gaps where the former buildings' foundations were.

    Perhaps a fairer question would be to ask if the previous incarnations of the Square were any better than the present version. Or to ask if the previous buildings were any better than the present version of the Square.