A comment from the company advertising Evolution on Gardiner, says that “early purchasers were thoughtful enough to instigate the European custom of adding some coins to the foundations. This custom is akin to the one of erecting a tree on the roof top at the final stage of construction, and brings good luck and stability to a building.”
From coins in the base to a tree on the top in two years. 34 floors of modern skyscraper (for Darwin anyway) rises above the Darwin skyline, to “warn” us of things to come for our sleepy little city.
Friday saw the topping out of the building, with a tree carried to the rooftop for the occasion. As this is the highest building in Darwin, this was not just any, spindly little tree but a huge, fully grown beast which was craned the 100 metres to the top of the building and could be seen from just about anywhere i
n the city.
According to our news, 80% of the 104 residential apartments have been sold; and 90% of the buyers are “locals” so the times must be a’changin from the single dwelling wide open windows tropical style to the modern fully closed, airconditioned life in the sky, or according to the marketing agents, vertical village. I guess we won’t have to ask the old question of what’s the weather like up there? We will know; it will be cool, real cool.
From coins in the base to a tree on the top in two years. 34 floors of modern skyscraper (for Darwin anyway) rises above the Darwin skyline, to “warn” us of things to come for our sleepy little city.
Friday saw the topping out of the building, with a tree carried to the rooftop for the occasion. As this is the highest building in Darwin, this was not just any, spindly little tree but a huge, fully grown beast which was craned the 100 metres to the top of the building and could be seen from just about anywhere i
n the city.According to our news, 80% of the 104 residential apartments have been sold; and 90% of the buyers are “locals” so the times must be a’changin from the single dwelling wide open windows tropical style to the modern fully closed, airconditioned life in the sky, or according to the marketing agents, vertical village. I guess we won’t have to ask the old question of what’s the weather like up there? We will know; it will be cool, real cool.
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