Adelaide's CBD is slowly being bulked up and the skyline is becoming more highrise, especially on the western side of the CBD as the new urban renewal developments finally start to happen. The Sensational Adelaide crowd must be pleased.

This 8 story commercial office--on the site of the failed Minster Ellison building from the 1980s --- is on the Gouger side of the Central Market, and judging from its name---Thompson Playford Building, --it will house lawyers.

The architecture looks bland and the shape is boring. But, as it is near the Supreme Court on Victoria Square, it will deepen the way this area of the CBD is becoming a lawyer precinct, that is a part of the intimately scaled setting of restaurants and wifi coffee shops clustered along Gouger Street.

Gary Sauer-Thompson, Supreme Court, Adelaide, 2007

What is crucial about this part of Adelaide is the people---it is alive and vibrant and so the architecture needs to enhance this vitality. Spire living is not appropriate.

Just around the corner from the Thompson Playford Building we have this 13 level mixed use (office and apartment) building development known as 16-20 Coglin Place. Will it be more lawyers?

These two buildingss, a block from where I live, will begin the rejuvenation of the south side of the city of Adelaide, which is currently full of empty buildings, pigeon shit and empty sites. What we need is urban rejuvenation that respects the intimacy of a people orientated precinct:

Gary Sauer-Thompson, pole, Gouger Street, Adelaide, 2007

We also need more of is kind of street art to highlight the creativity of the city.