Fitzroy (I forget the street names)
Fitzroy
Collingwood
Fitzroy
Little Londsale Street in the city
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Ace things about Melbourne
- * Brunswick Street
- * Chapel Street Bazaar.
- * It has a lane named after rock band AC/DC and a swimming pool named after a Prime Minister who is believed to have drowned at sea
- * Its vibrant multiculturalism
- * Royal Botanic Gardens.
- * Shady Caroline Street in South Yarra
- * The disco balls hanging above Rankins Lane in the city
- * The domed reading room of the State Library.
- * The eucalyptus trees and old lamps beside the river near Fed Square.
- * The huge mural spanning the length of the side wall of Dimmey's discount department store in Green Street Richmond
- * The laneways, especially Degraves Street and Centre Place.
- * The old terrace houses in the inner suburbs.
- * The Royal and Block Arcades.
- * The street art (commissioned and otherwise).
- * The Victorian architecture, especially the interior of 333 Collins Street, the Olderfleet Building and the Melbourne Safe Deposit Building on Queen Street
- * The view of the city at night from the Swan Street Bridge.
- * The Windsor end of Chapel Street
- * There's always a festival or major event happening.
A friend of mine once mentioned that there is no natural decay any more. You look around the inner suburbs and you see places that were once fashionable, then became less attractive and gradually became slums. Then gradually, they became attractive to people looking for some rough chic, then they because actual chic and the beautiful people are back again.
ReplyDeleteYou don't get that in the outer suburbs because everything gets knocked down as soon as it goes out of fashion and nothing ever has the chance to become charming. There will probably be two generations of architecture that we will have no examples of because the urban decay that you captured here was pre-empted by the wrecking ball and replaced with something else that will probably be knocked down in 25 years.