Saturday 22 March 2014

Spowers Architects, Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Burnley Complex, Melbourne, Australia

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Kind of like what you would get if you combined shuffling a deck of cards and a camshaft, after the King of Hearts had a pulmonary edema.  




The postmodern Metropolitan Fire Brigade Burnley Complex was designed by Spower Architects and                                                              completed in 2008.  

Wednesday 19 March 2014

Frank Gehry, BP Pedestrian Bridge, Chicago

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    Frank gehry, abstract, abstractional, abstraction, bridge, bp pedestrian bridge, Chicago, stainless steel, gehry, detail, façade, architect, architecture, architectural, structure, columbus drive, graphic

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A detail abstraction of architecture of the BP Pedestrian Bridge in Chicago focusing on specular reflections. Designed by Architect Frank Gehry. Photographed by Melbourne centric photographic artist tim macauley.

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Snaking it's way over Columbus Drive the stainless steel leviathan that is the BP Pedestrian Bridge was designed by architect Frank Gehry [link]. The bridge opened in 2004. Somewhat reminiscent of the Webb Bridge in Melbourne designed by Denton Corker Marshall only the sides have far more potential, as a sweet slippery dip. 


Tuesday 18 March 2014

Frank Gehry, Chiat/Day Binoculars building, Venice, Los Angeles

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Gehry's Copper Phase. Much like Picasso's blue period it was tentative at best but required to progress as an artist.  Google has pretty large glass these days... 

Frank Gehry, Edgemar Center for the Arts, Santa Monica, Los Angeles

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The ornamental nature of this building was a solid boding for his later work although prefabbed concrete and steel I beams don't quite have the same visual impact as molded stainless steel and titanium...  

Saturday 8 March 2014

State Electricity Commission of Victoria, giant electrical pole/tower, Docklands, Melbourne, Australia

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Sometimes that which was not designed to be aesthetically pleasing can just turn out that way in the purest form following function kind of way. Case in point some hulking scraps of steel otherwise mistaken for electrical poles / towers presumably designed and construced by the SEC back in the day.   

Sanoyas Rides Corporation in conjunction with ARUP, Melbourne Star Observation Wheel, Melbourne, Australia.


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The Melbourne Star Observation Wheel [link] was built by Sanoyas Rides Corperation and designed by a  consortium of structural engineering firms, led by ARUP [link] and located in the docklands precinct of Melbourne. The Melbourne Star has a long and interesting history, even before it opened for business (2009), then closed for business (2009), then opened again (2013), then temporary halted operation (2013) then unhalted operation 15 minutes later (2013), then closed again (2014) and  now reopened (2014). It looked for a while there, like it was heading in the same direction as the Springfield monorail, only a larger than life donut didn't save it.  


                                      Irrespective of all this, it sure does look pretty lit up at night.