Showing posts with label Nev Hood Salvage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nev Hood Salvage. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Granite Balls not up to scratch - Boucatt Reserve

Clearly, the Boucatt Reserve plans call for granite boulders:marbles
 boucatt flakey balls
Several of the recently delivered  boulders are already crumbling at the slightest touch.
(Note: The rocks are supplied by “Just Rocks” of Cavan, and are a form of Gabbro – see wikipedia :
Ocellar varieties of gabbro can be used as ornamental facing stones, paving stones and it is also known by the trade name of 'black granite', which is a popular type of graveyard headstone used in funerary rites. It is also used in kitchens and their countertops, also under the misnomer of 'black granite'.
metal pyramid

Update 7/1/2011:
Final turf laying after the boulders have been lifted on site:
boucatt balls a
 “What do they mean?” – it is possible that there are funerary associations intended. However one view from those on-site is that the boulders represent an “inverted” paw-print raised out of the historically  disrupted clay or pug hole of former use.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

“BOUCATT” RESERVE INSTALLATION

The former “NEV HOOD Salvage” site, now capped with a concrete slab for safety reasons, is to be fitted out with astro turf, planter tubs, a pergola and six granite boulders as part of the Kinsman City Edge Stage 4 redevelopment. A $6,000 Sculpture along the lines of others  in Brompton will be by supplied by oxigen  (Landscape Architecture Urban Design + Planning  www.oxigen.net.au.)                          
An artistic impression:                                         (looking south -                                                                                   “AceShopFitters” factory   represented)                                                                                                                    lot 95b Boucatt
Charles Sturt Council has a site plan which has been uploaded here
Two-story row houses (under construction) on  adjacent “Boucatt” Place are advertised for $429,000 per each.

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