The main difference between Art and Architecture is that the Art is a process of creating things of extrinsic value through emotional or aesthetic appeal and Architecture is a both the process and product of planning, designing and construction.
– google
Wonderland
The buildings in Melbourne’s CBD (Central Business District) often do not have straight lines horizontally or vertically. Facades swoop and curve causing one to pause and look carefully at shape. It appears that the architects were allowed to be creative and whimsical in design.
Property lines
There are many old churches in the CBD and the skyscrapers what grew up around them take their land purchase seriously. This skyscraper boundary butts up on the church boundary.
Another church/skyscraper example is an actual fusion. The wall of the minister’s cottage is literally used as a wall for the skyscraper.
The interiors of some public buildings are so beautiful that I wanted to tag some photos as art rather than architecture.
In the Melbourne Central train station, there is an old shot building that the station built up around. It’s disconcerting the first time you see it; why is there a building inside a building? It currently houses a shop and a museum about the Shot Tower. You have to walk through the men’s clothing shop to enter the museum.
Coop’s Shot Tower is a shot tower located in the heart of the Melbourne CBD, Australia. It was completed in 1889 and is 50 metres high. The historic building was saved from demolition in 1973 and was incorporated into Melbourne Central complex in 1991 underneath an 84 m-high conical glass roof.
– wikipedia
I like the old and the new but see I took pix of mostly the new buildings.
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