Comments on: What’s the best way to improve the Docklands? http://melbournism.com/whats-the-best-way-to-improve-the-docklands/ The best of almost everything in Melbourne, as voted by locals Fri, 18 May 2012 21:06:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ArchitectureStudent http://melbournism.com/whats-the-best-way-to-improve-the-docklands/#comment-3436 ArchitectureStudent Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:42:33 +0000 http://melbournism.com/?p=345#comment-3436 Docklands needs: - accessibility - more parking - mystery - Melbourne CBD is popular and interesting because there are alleys and arcades where new program's can be discovered - Docklands is too open and it's program too obvious - too internalised - the tall buildings focus on their internal private program's and have no relationship to the exterior environment, they could be picked up and placed elsewhere and the internal program would be unchanged Docklands needs:
- accessibility – more parking
- mystery – Melbourne CBD is popular and interesting because there are alleys and arcades where new program’s can be discovered – Docklands is too open and it’s program too obvious
- too internalised – the tall buildings focus on their internal private program’s and have no relationship to the exterior environment, they could be picked up and placed elsewhere and the internal program would be unchanged

]]> By: Candice http://melbournism.com/whats-the-best-way-to-improve-the-docklands/#comment-2006 Candice Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:39:35 +0000 http://melbournism.com/?p=345#comment-2006 I have worked in Docklands for 6 years. It has improved somewhat, but really needs to: A) Have more on- street parking B) Definitely more trees, it looks like a concrete jungle C) Widen the road on Harbour Esplanade - in peak hour one lane to get in and out is ridiculous It would be awesome if once a month they secured a new up and coming band to play in an outdoor area, similar to that area with the fake grass and steps which would get a crowd into Docklands. Otherwise it's so big and everything scattered so far from each other it always looks empty!!!! I have worked in Docklands for 6 years. It has improved somewhat, but really needs to:
A) Have more on- street parking
B) Definitely more trees, it looks like a concrete jungle
C) Widen the road on Harbour Esplanade – in peak hour one lane to get in and out is ridiculous

It would be awesome if once a month they secured a new up and coming band to play in an outdoor area, similar to that area with the fake grass and steps which would get a crowd into Docklands. Otherwise it’s so big and everything scattered so far from each other it always looks empty!!!!

]]> By: David http://melbournism.com/whats-the-best-way-to-improve-the-docklands/#comment-1486 David Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:02:26 +0000 http://melbournism.com/?p=345#comment-1486 Knock the place down! Its a hole! Maybe consider building a port or some docks there! Much better idea! Knock the place down! Its a hole! Maybe consider building a port or some docks there! Much better idea!

]]> By: Anonymous http://melbournism.com/whats-the-best-way-to-improve-the-docklands/#comment-1433 Anonymous Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:13:21 +0000 http://melbournism.com/?p=345#comment-1433 i knew, when i saw them cutting a hole in the middle of the Goods Shed, just to build a road to nowhere, i knew then, what a shithole it would become. i knew, when i saw them cutting a hole in the middle of the Goods Shed, just to build a road to nowhere, i knew then, what a shithole it would become.

]]> By: Daniel http://melbournism.com/whats-the-best-way-to-improve-the-docklands/#comment-1431 Daniel Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:04:51 +0000 http://melbournism.com/?p=345#comment-1431 There needs to be a seamless interface with the city. Why not build over the spencer st and west melbourne rail yards. At the moment there is no intuitive access to the precinct, the rail yards and Wurrendjerri way are real obstacles to making docklands feel anymore than a poorly planned after thought. There needs to be a seamless interface with the city. Why not build over the spencer st and west melbourne rail yards. At the moment there is no intuitive access to the precinct, the rail yards and Wurrendjerri way are real obstacles to making docklands feel anymore than a poorly planned after thought.

]]> By: MelbournianGirl http://melbournism.com/whats-the-best-way-to-improve-the-docklands/#comment-1430 MelbournianGirl Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:30:32 +0000 http://melbournism.com/?p=345#comment-1430 Better after hours transport links to city so we can go for dinner/drinks without ha ing to rush for tram by 9pm- something up LaTrobe would be awesome, affordable parking, cinema, a proper art gallery, free fri/sat night black and white movie screenings, and impossible but an apple store would lure people down. Better after hours transport links to city so we can go for dinner/drinks without ha ing to rush for tram by 9pm- something up LaTrobe would be awesome, affordable parking, cinema, a proper art gallery, free fri/sat night black and white movie screenings, and impossible but an apple store would lure people down.

]]> By: Anonymous http://melbournism.com/whats-the-best-way-to-improve-the-docklands/#comment-1025 Anonymous Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:20:22 +0000 http://melbournism.com/?p=345#comment-1025 Seahorn Seahorn

]]> By: Anonymous http://melbournism.com/whats-the-best-way-to-improve-the-docklands/#comment-470 Anonymous Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:43:56 +0000 http://melbournism.com/?p=345#comment-470 bulldozers bulldozers

]]> By: Ruth http://melbournism.com/whats-the-best-way-to-improve-the-docklands/#comment-439 Ruth Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:57:52 +0000 http://melbournism.com/?p=345#comment-439 This may seem like an obvious one, but if they want to make it a popular tourist precinct, it wouldn't hurt to have some actual hotels there. There's really nothing that exciting there to pull crowds at the moment, and it's the reason every restaurant and cafe is half-empty most of the time. I'm not sure it will ever be a place that attracts many locals -- so sterile, very little to compete with the CBD, Fitzroy, St Kilda, etc -- but I'm pretty sure that if you brought the tourists TO the area, they'd stick around and you could build a pretty lucrative local industry around that. A variation on this would be to stick a bunch of cheap backpackers/hostels there. It wouldn't do much for all the overpriced restaurants, but it would pretty much give the place an instant nightlife (albeit a fairly seedy one) and plenty of the young, single (or otherwise) office workers would stick around for the prospect of an easy lay (you know it's true) and nasty backpacker happy hours. This may seem like an obvious one, but if they want to make it a popular tourist precinct, it wouldn’t hurt to have some actual hotels there. There’s really nothing that exciting there to pull crowds at the moment, and it’s the reason every restaurant and cafe is half-empty most of the time.

I’m not sure it will ever be a place that attracts many locals — so sterile, very little to compete with the CBD, Fitzroy, St Kilda, etc — but I’m pretty sure that if you brought the tourists TO the area, they’d stick around and you could build a pretty lucrative local industry around that.

A variation on this would be to stick a bunch of cheap backpackers/hostels there. It wouldn’t do much for all the overpriced restaurants, but it would pretty much give the place an instant nightlife (albeit a fairly seedy one) and plenty of the young, single (or otherwise) office workers would stick around for the prospect of an easy lay (you know it’s true) and nasty backpacker happy hours.

]]> By: Guest http://melbournism.com/whats-the-best-way-to-improve-the-docklands/#comment-438 Guest Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:35:28 +0000 http://melbournism.com/?p=345#comment-438 You can now play glow in the dark black light MInigolf, just behind the Big Wheel, up the escalator beside KFC. You can now play glow in the dark black light MInigolf, just behind the Big Wheel, up the escalator beside KFC.

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