NOT...RELIGIOUS !!!
THE UNIVERSE: WAYYYY TOO BIG FOR MERE GODS.....
To me, a well designed office building can be just as lovely as a church, and the works of man generally are impressive precisely because we made them with our hands grasping tools, rather than just kneel with our hands clasped in prayer.....
I was particularly taken with the progression in scale from grass, to church, to office tower to the moon, and yes, to the one or two stars barely seen in the night sky.
We walked on the moon once and will do so again.....next stop, the stars!
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I was walking past the intersection of Elizabeth Street and Lonsdale Street in Melbourne and, glancing up at the moon breaking through the clouds, rather fancied the composition old Luna made with the Melbourne Central Tower and St. Francis Catholic Church.
Beyond the church is the 211 metre tall Melbourne Central Tower, designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, who was also responsible for the attached shopping centre, office tower, and railway station. The tower is coloured a distinctive black, has an angled top and has two communications masts so that it always reminds me a little of Batman's pointy eared cowl....
The view from the office suites located in the bevelled summit of the building is...impressive!
The shopping centre also contains the Coop's Shot Tower which was built on the site between 1889 and 1890 and has been preserved beneath a rather breathtaking vast glass cone shaped structure, as is recorded elsewhere in my photosets.
St Francis' Church is the oldest Catholic church in Victoria, Australia and is one of only three surviving buildings in central Melbourne from before the Gold Rush of 1851.
I am of course gloriously free of the ravages of religion, so apart from the architecture, which is admittedly fascinating, the other main thing I know about this church is that John 'Red' Kelly married Ellen Quinn there on 18th November 1850. Red and Ellen were the parents of Edward 'Ned' Kelly, Australia's famous armoured bushranger.
NOT...RELIGIOUS !!!
THE UNIVERSE: WAYYYY TOO BIG FOR MERE GODS.....
To me, a well designed office building can be just as lovely as a church, and the works of man generally are impressive precisely because we made them with our hands grasping tools, rather than just kneel with our hands clasped in prayer.....
I was particularly taken with the progression in scale from grass, to church, to office tower to the moon, and yes, to the one or two stars barely seen in the night sky.
We walked on the moon once and will do so again.....next stop, the stars!
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I was walking past the intersection of Elizabeth Street and Lonsdale Street in Melbourne and, glancing up at the moon breaking through the clouds, rather fancied the composition old Luna made with the Melbourne Central Tower and St. Francis Catholic Church.
Beyond the church is the 211 metre tall Melbourne Central Tower, designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, who was also responsible for the attached shopping centre, office tower, and railway station. The tower is coloured a distinctive black, has an angled top and has two communications masts so that it always reminds me a little of Batman's pointy eared cowl....
The view from the office suites located in the bevelled summit of the building is...impressive!
The shopping centre also contains the Coop's Shot Tower which was built on the site between 1889 and 1890 and has been preserved beneath a rather breathtaking vast glass cone shaped structure, as is recorded elsewhere in my photosets.
St Francis' Church is the oldest Catholic church in Victoria, Australia and is one of only three surviving buildings in central Melbourne from before the Gold Rush of 1851.
I am of course gloriously free of the ravages of religion, so apart from the architecture, which is admittedly fascinating, the other main thing I know about this church is that John 'Red' Kelly married Ellen Quinn there on 18th November 1850. Red and Ellen were the parents of Edward 'Ned' Kelly, Australia's famous armoured bushranger.