During the climax of one of Adele’s most beloved songes the arena burst into a ticker tape shower. Little snippets of paper with hand written messages flittered into the crowd, into the stands and out into the parklands beyond the stadium. “hello”, “Twas your song through every open door” and “… to stand in your […]
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Adelaide Oval
Looking North from the Adelaide Festival Centre over the River Torrens is the impressive structure of the new and vastly improved Adelaide Oval. It looks wonderful lit up at night although I wonder if its carbon footprint is worth the civic value. Despite all the arguments for and against I’m in favor of making Adelaide […]
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Last night I got into an animated conversation involving the merits or not of building our new Torrens Riverbank Fortbridge completed and openend back in June 2014. The conversation had many facets including cost, asthetics, utiliy and return on investment. To me the benefits a creating something beautiful are subtle and intangible but extremenly important […]
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