Cool and Funky Melbourne

Some of my favourite Melbourne things.

In Melbourne Central Mall there is a large clock that looks like a pocket watch. On its backside three koalas sit a teeter totter, apparently providing the power to make it tick.

At the strike of noon, a portion of the clock descends to reveal two flutists and birds on perches. They dance as it plays "Waltzing Matilda" and people like me snap photographs.

 

  Things in Melbourne just seem to pop up overnight. This hutch made of twigs appeared next to Federation Square, for instance.

Going inside is a tactile and olfactory adventure. 

Melbourne is having a music festival at present, and they've taken over an abandoned buiding, named it "Where?House" and thrown in a bar, cafe, some eateries and a concert hall. I saw someone dressed like Jack White there. Hrm.

RMIT university building has a digital motif made of what look like metal triangle cut-outs. These cuts out are coloured differently and angled, giving the impression of enlarged pixels, as if it's made of an oversized computer screen. From each perspective the colours change. Each darkened section in the image below is a balcony space with tables where students can study. Inside and outside intermingle in many ways, in this building. The front foyer has a coffee shop that is open to the public surrounded by neon green tables anc alcove. Off to one side is a triangular area open to the sky featuring palm trees. Glass walls expose lecture halls or student learning centres, which then have glass walls to the street. It is a building full of vibrant colours with neon green, red, blue and lots of black. I also like the way the whole facade frames an older Victorian structure beside it.