Parker Design in association with Architectus, David Jones Redevelopment, Melbourne, Australia

Parker Design [link] in association with Architectus [link] have taken on the redevelopment of the David Jones flagship store in the central CBD of Melbourne.  

Looking like a more up market and geometric version of the 'Watercube' [link], that doesn't quite hold the viewers awe as the sun goes down as the latter does but even with late night shopping on Fridays taken into consideration, I don't see that been an issue for your typical David Jones punter.

The Bourke street section of the redevopment was compeleted in 2011 with the rest is still in the pipeline.  

Grimshaw Architects, Seafarers Bridge, Melbourne, Australia

Like an opposing pair of stripped down prams hoods [link], allowing patrons to get their daily dose of vitamin D at no extra charge.  

Designed by Grimshaw Architects [link], the pedestrian bridge that links the lower parts of Southbank with the Docklands precinct was completed in 2008.  .   

Frank Ghery Vs Dubstep, a selection of his designs, across the USA

I spent a month travelling around the Land of Frosted Cornflakes hitting up 17 Ghery designs including his personal residence in Santa Monica (that was a bit awkward). It was only after I got to Cleveland and the Peter B. Lewis building that I realised that photographs couldn't really do justice to the dance of lights across the skins of the buildings, as such started to take video as well. Why dubstep (well if you want to get technical brostep in this case)? It's what most of the campers were listening to at camp that summer, that and one direction (I worked three months at camp Merrowvista in New Hampshire before heading on the cross country adventure) I'd never heard of it previously. Match made in heaven me thinks.   

Loader and Bayley / Harris, Lange and Partners, The University of Melbourne Underground Carpark, Melbourne, Australia

Something like out of a scene from Mad Max ..............no really, the repetitive parabolic shaped reinforced concrete futurist tomb that is the Underground Car Park in the heart of The University of Melbourne [link], seems to be the most frequented joints for any up and coming fashion photographers to do a 'cutting edge' shoot. The security crew never seemed too phased by all the photographers/models/makeup artists/ hair stylist, fashion stylist, fashion designers/ art directors that drop by on a nightly basis. It's a tough life.     

The carpark was design by Architectural firms Loader & Bayley  and Harris, Lange & Partners and completed in 1972.

Lab Architecture Studio/Bates Smart Architects, Federation Square , Melbourne, Australia

 

 

It could be argued that one public eyesore in the form of the old Gas and Fuel Corporation Building was replaced with another, in the form of Federation Square but if the patronage of all the organisations housed within and the huge numbers that are drawn to all the public events held in the forecourts all throughout the year are anything to go by, it's been a huge success. The public have spoken. Haters gonna Hate [link]. 
 

 

Architect Takaharu Tezuka once remarked of the design "Everyone prefers an incline" in reference to the sloped floors and people's inclination to lay on inclined surfaces like the banks of rivers, rather than flat surfaces.   

Federation Square designed by Lab Architecture Studio [link] and local architectural outfit Bates Smart [link], was not ready in time for the centenary of federation due to major blowouts left, right and center during the construction phase, belatedly opening in late 2002.