I hadn’t had a chance to write about the architecture in
Melbourne but I had saved all the pictures I wanted to share. The city is a
very cool combination of old and modern buildings, many times juxtaposed
directly like in these pictures.
Maybe one of the more interesting modern buildings is the
Eureka Tower, just completed in 2006. It’s one of the top three highest
residential towers in the world. There’s an interesting backstory here: Eureka Tower
This was one of the more beautiful older buildings, Flinders
Train Station. There were lots of people going in and out of there every time
we walked by.
I was most intrigued by the Southern Cross Train Station
where we boarded the train for Warrnambool last Saturday. While we were waiting
on the platform to board our train, I took these pictures. These two buildings appear to be commercial buildings next
to the train station.
But this one appeared to be some part of the train station
because I saw staff enter it. Look at the cool windows.
And I didn’t even get a good picture of the station itself,
which is like the polar opposite of Flinder's Station. You can see some pictures
of it here.
There were a lot of triangles and unusual angles in many of
the modern building architecture. Federation Square is where the Melbourne Visitor’s Centre is. Also some pretty cool buildings there (click
on the link to see some).
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