Thursday, July 18, 2013

Belated Post on Melbourne Architecture


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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