Tom Crossan Photography
Coffee Shops, Old Melbourne Post Office, Melbourne, Australia. ©2013 Tom Crossan
Melbourne General Post Office (also known as Melbourne GPO) is located on the corner of Elizabeth and Bourke Street in Melbourne CBD, Australia and is currently listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. The former purpose built post office building currently functions as a shopping mall, having been redeveloped by adaptive reuse in 2004.
The architectural style of the building is Classical with French Second Empire influences and was designed in the Victorian period by architect A.E Johnson. Its historical significance is also due to incorporating distinct sections built over a period of 48 years between 1859 and 1907, and multilayered architecture, as a result of the four floors being constructed at different times. A distinctive architectural element is the clock tower which dominates the intersection of the two streets. Its location is still used as a point of reference for the measure of distances from the centre of Melbourne.
Nikon D800 with Zeiss 25 x 2.8 lens. Hand held.
Settings: 1/30 ƒ/2.8 ISO 500 25 mm
©Tom Crossan 2013
© All rights reserved. You may not use this photo in website, blog or any other media without my explicit permission.
Please do contact me if you wish to use any of my images.
Coffee Shops, Old Melbourne Post Office, Melbourne, Australia. ©2013 Tom Crossan
Melbourne General Post Office (also known as Melbourne GPO) is located on the corner of Elizabeth and Bourke Street in Melbourne CBD, Australia and is currently listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. The former purpose built post office building currently functions as a shopping mall, having been redeveloped by adaptive reuse in 2004.
The architectural style of the building is Classical with French Second Empire influences and was designed in the Victorian period by architect A.E Johnson. Its historical significance is also due to incorporating distinct sections built over a period of 48 years between 1859 and 1907, and multilayered architecture, as a result of the four floors being constructed at different times. A distinctive architectural element is the clock tower which dominates the intersection of the two streets. Its location is still used as a point of reference for the measure of distances from the centre of Melbourne.
Nikon D800 with Zeiss 25 x 2.8 lens. Hand held.
Settings: 1/30 ƒ/2.8 ISO 500 25 mm
©Tom Crossan 2013
© All rights reserved. You may not use this photo in website, blog or any other media without my explicit permission.
Please do contact me if you wish to use any of my images.