SUNDAY BEST #385 - FED SQUARE INTERIOR

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Federation Square (marketed and colloquially known as Fed Square) is a venue for arts, culture and public events on the edge of the Melbourne central business district. It covers an area of 3.2 ha at the intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets built above busy railway lines and across the road from Flinders Street station. It incorporates major cultural institutions such as the Ian Potter Centre, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the Koorie Heritage Trust as well as cafes and bars in a series of buildings centred around a large paved square, and a glass walled atrium. The square was opened on 26 October 2002.

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Last week, Lydia in Sydney Australia offered us a beautiful post with equally beautiful photos, the one below, my fave. Please visit her blog for more great shots.

SUNDAY BEST #384 - A PLACE TO CALL HOME

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A typical block of 1960s Melbourne flats, each typically comprising a living area, a bedroom, a bathroom and kitchen. These ageing buildings are often derided for being unattractive, utilitarian and cheap. But these buildings also have design features we have come to celebrate: narrow footprints that allow cross ventilation, flexible floorplans, minimal use of shared walls, low-maintenance design and a modest human scale. We seldom find these features in apartment developments today...

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Last week, Jim in Sydney shared this photo of Sydney's "Vivid", a Winter lights spectacular held in multiple venues in the city. Please visit his blog for more great shots.

SUNDAY BEST #383 - AT THE GALLERY

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Nina Sanadze's "Call to Peace, Anatomy of the Dream", exhibited at the The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square in Melbourne. Sanadze, a Georgian artist residing in Australia since 1996 is making an anti-war statement, using sculptures and reimaginings of classical forms in various stages of construction, completion and/or deconstruction.

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Last week, Roentare in Melbourne shared this photo from his trip to New Zealand. Please visit his blog for more great shots.

MELBOURNE POSTCARD

This is a digital postcard I made some time ago and I am sending it to a friend who is overseas and feeling a little homesick... 

This post is part of the Mosaic Monday meme,
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SUNDAY BEST #382 - RAINY EVENING

Welcome to the meme, "My Sunday Best", which is a photographic and creative meme that allows you to showcase your talents in imaging. Every Sunday, you can post here showing an image you have created using your camera, (and/or) image processing software, and/or painting and drawing in the conventional way and have scanned in.

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Last week, Csuhpat1 in the USA posted a great series of shots on the NASCAR Xfinity series in Portland. Check out his blog for more photos.

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GOTHIC

This mosaic features the former English, Scottish & Australian Bank (now ANZ ‘Gothic Bank’) at 382-392 Collins Street (north-east corner of Collins and Queen Streets). This edifice is considered to be the finest secular Gothic Revival building in Australia. It was erected as the head office of the ES&A Bank in 1883-87. The top two floors were the residence of George Verdon, general manager of the bank, and an enlightened patron, who commissioned noted architect William Wardell, and together they created this masterpiece.

The flat stone exterior is punctuated by delicately elaborated openings, those of the first floor porches in Venetian Gothic tracery. Inside, the banking chamber is a tour-de-force of rich Gothic imagery and 19th century technology – the columns, ribbing and sculptural capitals are all made of iron. Verdon’s residence above remains substantially intact (also lavishly ornamented), and was occupied by the women only Lyceum Club in the 1920s. The bank expanded in 1922 to occupy the adjacent buildings on both streets, and the banking chamber was seamlessly extended into the former Stock Exchange.

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SUNDAY BEST #381 - ART LOVERS

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Admiring the art at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

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Last week, Roentare in Melbourne shared this marvellous photo from Cape Shanck in Victoria. Please visit his blog for more wonderful photography.