Original post 7 December 2018
I didn’t think much of this till I got up close – #Banksia, at the #MelbourneDocklands, by McBride Charles Ryan, finished last year – the spiky bits are really spiky ! And #curvalicious, and moulded, I do like the legs and the crown. Won a few prizes. Still think it was an odd decision to put a tower in the middle of what was an open space leading to the water – not only that, it’s on a podium, as is the lawn on the north side, so the space is all subdivided, doesn’t flow, interrupted, the base has nothing in it, there’s still no there there ! But given the winds the lawn is probably far more useful than a big empty space.
Storey of Melbourne 