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  • peter
    edited November -1
    <p><span style="font-size: larger;"><i><b>Roi </b></i></span>in North Fitzroy, by architects Bird de la Coeur.</p>
    <p>Is this</p>
    <p>a) a frenchified abbreviation of Fitzroy?</p>
    <p>b) french for "king". Pronounced <i>rwah</i>.</p>
    <p>c) the acronym for <b>R</b>eturn <b>O</b>n <b>I</b>nvestment?</p>
    <p><a href="http://www.roiapartments.com.au/">www.roiapartments.com.au/</a></p>
    <p> </p>
  • info
    edited November -1
    Update from Brisbane
    Also near the names on the river bend:

    Waters Edge
    Terrace Row
    Silhouette
    Euro
    Urban Harmony

    Names and architecture are commensurate
    The river is within spewing distance
  • sod
    sod
    edited November -1
    <p>i think toorak is close in aboriginal pronunciation to shitbird</p>
  • b_n
    b_n
    edited November -1
    On the geographically challenged, below is an older version in St Kilda (some streets away from the bay) Bondi - Como - Manly?
  • b_n
    b_n
    edited November 2008
    duplicate post removed - ignore
  • mark_melb
    edited November -1
    <p>They are getting desparate. How about '<b>Point de Mer' </b>in Beaumaris. Or should it be Beaumarais?</p>
  • peter_j
    edited November -1
    <p>Real estate humbug of the week.</p>
    <p>Roi apartments ad in last Sat's Domain:

    "INNER CITY LIFESTYLE WITH A VIBRANT ECLECTIC PERSONA"</p>
    <p>Manages to combine 3 of my least favourite words in one line.</p>
    <p> </p>
  • peter_j
    edited November -1
    Blackman - St Kilda Road: edgy, boutique interior
    http://www.apbc.com.au/hotels-resorts/blackman.asp

    Coco - Windsor

    Zen Apartments - The Harmony Collection (Melbourne)
    http://www.zenharmony.com.au/
  • mark_melb
    edited October 2009
    <p><b>The Roi </b>in Fitzroy. Obviously a 'container' for Bogans. BTW have you seen the marketing images? A recent one has more bamboo than building. Mmmm. Homey. Nice if you are a Panda.</p>
  • hairdresser
    edited October 2009
    ^ brissy footy players social fund project?
    looks like a rhino designed it.

    best bit is the way dudes market base level rating compliance as if it were top shelf ESD.
    6 stars = get a building permit just - no?

    wots the cobblers sat on building down in railyards called. anyone know?
  • mark_melb
    edited January 2010
    <p><b>Rue de Chapel</b> in Prahran. How embarrassing!</p>
  • luke
    edited November -1
    Not sure which is more irrelevant - Rue de Chapel or Prahran?
  • mark_melb
    edited November -1
    <p>Neither are luke. <b>Ilk</b> on Toorak Road may be. What a screamingly funny name for welfare housing for aspirationals.</p>
  • hairdresser
    edited January 2010
    funny how paris doesn't have a melbourne end to any of its streets hey.
  • peter_j
    edited November -1
    They don't seem to be touting the other end of Collins St as the "New York end" like they were a few years ago.

    While we're down that end, the staffers' project nickname for the 558m Grollo Tower when it was on the boards at DCM in '95 - Hard On Collins.
  • hairdresser
    edited November -1
    very don't come to have an imaginary erection.
  • cabbie
    edited November -1
    <p>makes up for all inadequacies.....a placebo...no...?</p>
  • mark_melb
    edited November -1
    <p>...........Paris does have a Melbourne end. It's at the dodgey end of Boulevarde de Sebastopol, where the kabab joints are.</p>
  • hairdresser
    edited January 2010
    ha ha ha.

    ,,,,tho i hear de sal contractors call it as Route Centrale out of Le Frette-sur-Seine, a delightful riverside boulevard.
  • luke
    edited January 2010
    Yet again, the Benders come close and trip
    Not enough $$$ for the 's' on the signage?

    The Go Between Bridge
    http://www.halestreetlink.com.au/home/inner.asp?pageID=110&mainID=0
  • luke
    edited November -1
    Conversely, but in the same vein
    Got the name right, but got the bridge so wrong

    The Kurilpa Bridge
    http://www.publicworks.qld.gov.au/majorprojects/Pages/KurilpaBridge.aspx
  • hairdresser
    edited November -1
    ^^
    bland boring and provincial - perfect.

    ^
    but at least its not a buffoon being piss elegant tarting up a view of nothing.
    http://www.theage.com.au/national/welllit-west-gate-bridge-will-be-envy-of-sydney-says-minister-20100126-mvhb.html?comments=26
  • luke
    edited November -1
    Polishing a turd?


    PS. What's Mrs Pallas's role on the project?
  • hairdresser
    edited March 2010
    ^ timid's role was to [** deleted **]

    fair crack - but not a turd mate.
    its marxicos only hill, a drive through sacrificial altar and a gateway to landscaped grounds where kangaroos graze in front of the neo-modherdist family tenarse courts.
    with pimping will be up 2 scratch with northwest turdstile to the paddock by can't comes - a gerocratic musing on drains, their lost youth in germany and air conditioned coffins by the 18th hole.
  • peter_j
    edited November -1
    The Face St Kilda.

    A touch of the slumping Dalis... or a Tim Tam.

    DOMAIN: St Kilda's newest and most significant luxury apartment development is now available. Right in the heart of the action with views to Luna Park, the development is located on the corner of Acland and Carlisle Streets. By renowned architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall. As Ian McDougall says “the design embraces the idiosyncrasies of St Kilda, a community of the surreal where the local and exotic mix.”
    http://www.domain.com.au/Property/For-Sale/Apartment/VIC/St-Kilda/?adid=2008220535

    www.theface-stkilda.com.au

    Marketers say:
    "Elevate living to an art form"
    "Inspired by the eclectic spirit of St Kilda-ness" (who is St Kilda Ness?)
    "The Face breaks new ground" (face plant?)
  • luke
    edited November -1
    "Daling it hurts."
  • hairdresser
    edited March 2010
    ^stinkers aren't sinkers?
  • peter_j
    edited November -1
    No brainer.

    "Dal
  • hairdresser
    edited March 2010
    ha ha ha.

    but.........cobblers r literalarians.
    =>split brown glove = just front for empty skull + indiscriminate propping.

    arsesimulation + commentary of centrelink = the 80s sightghast.
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