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The underside of the Citigroup Center, or whatever it's called now. A skyscraper on stilts. Evan wanted to see it after hearing the amazing, super good episode of the 99% Invisible podcast about the building and the discovery of its crisis.
I don't know why this is a thing for me, but ever since I've moved here, I've found the immensity of our buildings inexplicably and profoundly therapeutic. I love this big thing sitting over my head. I love that I'm small, and I can trust it. They're just buildings, but I sort of feel like they are our defenders.
So I was kind of having a day, and I stared up for a while.
Inspired by a photo by HamburgCam ( www.flickr.com/photos/internationalphotos/7209693760/in/p... ) I deceided to do some shooting in the Europapassage as well. Here's the first of the resulting images.
Applied crop only, otherwise unr3touched.
Detail of futuristic metal decorative element crowning "The Focal" building in Spring Street, Melbourne.
This decoration has fascinated me for years, and always makes me think of Art Deco flagpoles, ray guns from Marvin the Martian cartoons, and Fritz Lang's film Metropolis.
"The Focal" was built in 1996, and is a nine level mid-rise residential apartment building containing a heated indoor pool, full sized tennis court, gym, and my favourite - a communal herb garden. Most of the other commercial and residential buildings in the area are pretty boring and don't have anything like this on them to make them stand out.