The featured image looks east, across Perth’s Elizabeth Quay, at 2. 49 pm on 24 April 2024.
Its official name – bestowed in 2012 by then WA Premier Colin Barnett – honoured the then British monarch.
The name came after the monumentally-expensive development’s first sod had been turned.
More than a few Perth residents prefer to call it “Betty’s Jetty.”
Billed as “transformative”, the still-unfolding project officially “opened” in January 2016.
It was allegedly going to “reconnect Perth’s CBD with the Swan River”.
In essence, it is an artificial inlet, around which are jumbled an assortment of corporate towers, hotels, apartments, restaurants, bars, promenades, playgrounds, an artificial island, a ferry “station”/wharf, an attractive pedestrian bridge, a particularly graceless toilet block, the world’s tallest freestanding carbon fibre art object…and so much more…
Some useful descriptors: ambitious, deeply-flawed, awkward, “accident”-prone, mishmash.
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Prominent in the featured image: the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, some very ritzy apartments, the south-facing side of Chevron’s HQ and Spanda – the aforementioned art object.
Discreetly present in the foreground: a human, offering fresh water to a black swan.
As for the chips: see the “much closer view” image in this post’s “9B” sequel.