Placing our 'essentials' from Monopoly and Broadacres on Melbourne Docklands created a sort of Docklands spectacle, that at least added some interest to Docklands.
But it was a quite literal 'translation' of Monopoly - its colours, the dice, some attractions/destinations - that vaguely relates to the game element of Monopoly.
The only reference to Frank Lloyd Wrights Broadacres were the community roof gardens, so that each resident of Docklands could have their own 'green acre', or on Dockland's scale, maybe 10 square meters or so.
It would only appeal to visitors to Docklands and it wouldn't give us any clue how we would approach any new development. So the critique that our solution was not going to inform our design approach to Docklands Second Decade was certainly justified. Although we'll keep this idea in the back of our minds for making the existing Docklands more attractive.
PS. Look at that title. What were we thinking?
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