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Postby GlasWeb » Wed May 24, 2006 1:02 pm

ooooh........ home!


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Postby Cazzie » Wed May 24, 2006 1:53 pm

Excellent! Shouldn't laugh but thought that very funny...

Thanks for making me smile on a dull afternoon!
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Postby AMcD » Wed May 24, 2006 2:46 pm

Ha! Excellent... a realistic looking render!
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Postby Vladimir » Wed May 24, 2006 2:55 pm

I like the big fat girls sitting on the bench. Out of all of the photo, thats the most realistic...
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Postby dave2 » Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:09 am

Some pictures of the current development of the building.

1. I think the current work is a prelude to the facade retention scaffolding being put up.
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2. The general state of repair of the soputh frederick street side
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3. The huts on the roof, before and after removal.
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Postby DMcNay » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:13 pm

I know of one company considering taking over part or possibly all of the office.
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Postby dave2 » Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:24 pm

Update......

The piledriving for the mecano is complete and today it arrived.
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The concrete bases have been finished off.
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Internal support bars are in place for the mecano kit
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But the internal walls and floors are gone.
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Postby McShad » Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:40 pm

2nd picture made me feel sea sick!
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Postby My Kitten » Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:43 pm

dave2, can you re-size your pics please they are rather big. Ta muchly :)
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Postby dave2 » Sat Aug 19, 2006 7:00 pm

will try.

Is that any better?

I tried using the tool in photobucket but it didnt help

Ok that them at 480x360.....google picassa seems to do the trick
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Postby HollowHorn » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:13 pm

dave2 wrote:I tried using the tool in photobucket

Thon khant Fossy gets everywhere :roll:
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Postby My Kitten » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:57 am

Irfanview is a good bog standard anywhere size shape colour type programme to re-size em.

or host them on flickr.com they do variable sizing.
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Postby dave2 » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:36 am

McShad wrote:2nd picture made me feel sea sick!


Sorry, but due to the shape of the window I was hanging out to get the pictures, I couldnlt really get a better angle for fear of plunging down 4 floors onto the pavement! 8O ::):
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Postby dave2 » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:36 pm

Today being a sunday, they started building the mecano, so having closed off the road, and brought in 2 cranes and a telehandler they started.

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Postby cumbo » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:55 pm

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