Harbour View in West Gosford

Both Harbour View (left) & the Batley Street tower are nearly finished, 1st September 2018

Harbour View on the left, part of the Batley Street tower on the right side, between them, part of their water views.

The back side of Harbour View, 1st September 2018

Half of Harbour View is still covered in the blue mesh but the other half is so close to being finished we can see landscaping in this photo, little bushes in the external window gardens.

Behind Harbour View is the fenced off area, between two houses, where the workers have been storing materials and other construction things. It will be interesting to see what is constructed on that site, if anything, when Harbour View is all done and dusted.

Men at work up in the westside penthouse, 1st September 2018

Workers hard at it, installing either big picture windows or big sliding doors out onto that nice big balcony. From there, the view will be north-north-west along Peats Ridge Road and on towards the Mangrove Creek Dam and Bucketty, west over the Kariong Ridge and the Glenworth Valley and towards Wisemans Ferry and south down the western side of the Brisbane Water and over the Woy Woy Peninsula and, I think I remember rightly, to the hypnotic nightly flashing of the lighthouse on Barrenjoey Head above Palm Beach. Not too shabby.

Materials lift slowly rising to the penthouses, 1st September 2018

We can see here the blue and white box, behind a tree branch, that it the materials lift slowly rising up its track on the Batley Street side of the site, delivering building and finishing materials as it goes. Behind it, to its right, we can see the steel staircase the workers use. Very good for the legs.

Two helmeted workers hard at it near the materials lift, 1st September 2018

There was no sign of winding up for the day when I left at midday. Perhaps this site works all day on Saturdays. That's hard yakka bit I imagine it's par for the course in building boom times.

The front of Harbour View on Wilhelmina Street, 1st September 2018

There's still lots of blue mesh on the front of the building but, looking up at the top corners, we can see they are rounded and the front of the whole building has a gentle curve to it. We can also see part of the penthouse roof in the centre of the top of the building.

And I've just realised there's no crane on this site any more, so I'll have to do another Crane Count very soon.


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Gosford from Yattalunga, August 2018

Afternoon sun sparkling on the water off Yattalunga, on the eastern side of the Brisbane Water.

Gosford can be seen between the two yacht masts on the right. And, with none of the cranes visble at this distance, Gosford looks much as it looked before this current building boom started in April 2017.