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

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.

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. 

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/