Marcus O'Reilly Architects, Red Stairs, Southbank Melbourne, Australia

Well at least these red steps don't get shut up and hosed down late at night to prevent an enviable flood of homeless people from finding a safe place to sleep at the end of the night, like they do with the TKTS steps [link] in Times square in NYC.

The distinctive red structure of the red stairs is located on the Southbank side of the Yarra river in Melbourne was designed by Marcus O'Reilly Architects [link] and built in 2007.

Numen/For Use, Tape installation, Melbourne, Australia

Another take on ephemeral architecture Tape was an installation at Federation Square, created by the revolutionary Viennese/Croatian design collective mavericks Numen/For Use [link]. Tape Melbourne was a temporary work made entirely of regular packing tape, a self-extinguishing tape and multiple layers of the transparent adhesive. Looking like a more angelic alien hive [link] that H.R.Giger  [link] would be proud   

The installation ran from the 13th to the 24th of September 2011.

http://www.numen.eu/installations/tape-melbourne/

Metier3 Architects, School of Economics and Commerce Building, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

The new School of Economics and Commerce building part of The University of Melbourne was designed by Metier3 Architects [link]. Looking much like the cross section of a multi-tiered lamington [link], if the filler was the result of a Rorschach inkblot test [link] instead of cake batter goodness. The buidling was opened in 2009.