Ouch! Recent high temperatures in Brisbane have put the designers of the $28 million, three year ‘revitalising’ of King George Square under the griller, with temperatures in the sparsely shaded new square reaching a recorded 56.3 degrees.

Opinions from passers-by on the newly opened square were mixed, with many expressing mystification at the lack of grass and trees.

Quick to relish the chance to see someone with egg on their face, enterprising journalists from Brisbane’s Courier Mail newspaper published a video of an egg frying merrily on the concrete in the square – although there were no reports of anyone willing to eat the results.

Designers from the company concerned also refused to eat the egg – or even humble pie – claiming that the square ‘was not meant to be a shady oasis.’

‘If someone is looking for a shady oasis they should go to Roma Street
Parkland,’ a designer from the company asserted, according to a report in the online magazine, Architecture and Design.

‘King George Square is a completely different premise.’

The Brisbane Lord Mayor agreed, and there the matter apparently rests.

Everything’s cool.

(Image courtesy of www.walkingmelbourne.com )

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