(Note that the blinds are drawn on the ground floor.)
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Shapeskis II
The building in this picture was extracted from a photograph (dated 1968) in the Wolfgang Sievers Collection at the State Library of Victoria. It is Accountants House, headquarters of the Australian Society of Accountants, 49 Exhibition Street, Melbourne.
(Note that the blinds are drawn on the ground floor.)
(Note that the blinds are drawn on the ground floor.)
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for a long time, one of my favourite websites has been photoaustralia.org/
and I have studied every single one of the thousands of Sievers industrial photos.
I can get lost in old photos for hours.
just enter "house interiors" in the searchbox and kiss your day goodbye.
Thanks for the link ann o'dyne. I look forward to kissing at least one day goodbye (passionately).
And yes, there's a kind of imaginary freedom that old photos like those in the Siever's collection allow. Also the monochrome factor helps me to think in shades and contrasts.
I have seen Robin Hood Gardens in today's news online
'brutalist architecture'
and very similar looking.
Thanks for the tip dysthymiac (I checked out some photos). The drowned PM's eponymous swimming pool complex - where I occasionally had a dip as a boy - is brutalist also. There is something perversely attractive about the style - the leanness of the geometry, the dominance of grey tones and hard textures (for a start).
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