Oh you mean the Giant Cheestik!
Yep, another example of Melbourne gone Mad.
Pointless street art, I do so love living in Melbourne 
Thus far the only good thing I can see about Federation Square is that somewhere in there is being shown a short film with Leechboy in it.
I caught something on the TV news about the Espy remaining a live music venue. Can anyone confirm what’s happening there?
Well, Godzilla’s gotta have lots of things to trash when he wanders down there. And when he realizes that trashing Federation Square has made it look BETTER, he’ll get super-pissed and go after the Sydney Opera House.
Isn’t the Opera House due for demolition soon anyway??? It passed its use-by date about 30 years ago, as far as I’m concerned.
There ain’t nothin’ wrong with our Federation Square that a few $2.00 Shops wouldn’t cure!! Bring in the moccie brigade…that’d fix the joint!!
I saw it during construction, and wasn’t hopeful for the outcome. It looked like another Darling Harbour all over again. Yech.
Sydney can get away with gross, brassy stuff like that - if it really must. Not Melbourne. I go to the southern city for elegance, not glitz. The grand old lady Melbourne had gone downhill in the few years since I last saw her. Trying to be Sydney is silly. The locals don’t want that. The visitors don’t want it either. Melbourne is in danger of losing her unique character.
I haven’t seen the finished product. I hope it’s better than I fear.
Heh.
Look at TheLoadedDog’s message above.
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Heh.
I don’t mind it - I haven’t looked around extensively - went to an X2 preview screening and had dinner - but it seems quite nice.
Has anyone been to Chocolate Buddha there? Lovely food, cute waiters, but such freaking small portions!
Hey, Beastal…
Heh. As y’ were.
'sokay Merkins, we do this for sport.
Pfft. Amateurs.
Only 'cos life is so boring in Sydney that there is naff-all else to do.
Holy shit!
The elevator looks cool though…
Then there’re the Exploding Crystal and the Aerial Pizzabox (now under construction) in Toronto…
Personally, I like them. I am sick sick sick of the pretentious fake-victorian dreck that passes for domestic architecture around here.
That crystal could grow on me, but the pizzabox is the most abominable thing I’ve ever seen.
The real monstrosity is that piece of shit website that is supposed to be promoting this structure.
W(hy)TF do archetects who want to be respected and taken seriously allow themselves to be promoted by web sites who employ people who love to use tacky colors, with text that is too small to read, and text vs. color schemes that hurt the eyes. They seem to be saying, “look at our cool web-site. Oh by the way, we’re promoting something but that’s not important. We are artists in our own right.”
When I click on an image, I would like to see a seperate window open with the pic somewhere close to the screen size. Do I get this? Nooooo! I get some artsy-FARTSY small view that shows the web designers are idiots beyond foo-foo web-art crap.
If only they could get it to work…
Just curious, matt, but is that supposed to be an example of bad architecture? Because it’s just about the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
Right with you on the pizzabox, though. Blech.
I interpreted matt_mcl’s post as a reply to my gripe about the shitty web-site. Like “Here’s a real pic!”
I am probably wrong about the interpretation, but if I ever get to go to Melbourne, and there is an observation deck on top of that leaning tower, I want to go there.
Yep. You’re wrong about your interpretation, 'cos that tower isn’t in Melbourne. So, if you ever get here, you won’t be getting to the obxervation deck of THAT.
Unless the Grollo Bro’s built it in the last week or so, which I wouldn’t put past them.
Squink, I hereby proclaim you “thread hero” for that post. Well, my thread hero, at least.
Having worked with architects in the past, I think they sometimes fall into the “unusual is always good and refreshing” trap, and bureaucrats, to avoid looking stodgy and bourgeois, believe the marketing pitch.
“It’s fresh, and different from everything you’ve seen before!!!”
Sadly, this also describes every bowel movement I’ve ever made.
Federation nothing. THE BORG HAVE LANDED!