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Culture Of Melbourne
The culture of Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria, Australia, Victoria, encompasses the city's artistic, culinary, literary, musical, political and social elements. Since its founding as a British settlement in 1835, Melbourne has been culturally influenced by culture of Europe, European culture, particularly that of the British Isles. During the 1850s Victorian gold rush and in the decades that immediately followed, immigrants from many other parts of the world, notably China and the Americas, helped shape Melbourne's culture. Over time, Melbourne has become the birthplace of a number of unique cultural traits and institutions, and today it is one of the world's most multicultural cities. Traditionally acclaimed as Australia's "cultural capital", Melbourne topped the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Ranking, annual ranking of the world's most liveable cities throughout much of the 2010s, based in part on its cultural attributes. Overview M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Clarke's Melbourne Art Tram
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Bates Smart
Bates Smart is an architectural firm with studios in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1853 by Joseph Reed, it is one of Australia's oldest architectural firms. Over the decades, the firm's practices involving architecture, interior design, urban design, strategy, sustainability and research, have been responsible for some of Australia’s most recognizable buildings. History Joseph Reed, born in 1823 in Cornwall, England, established his firm upon his arrival in Melbourne in 1853, and in 1863, joined with British architect Frederick Barnes, renaming his practice to Reed & Barnes. Their name is linked to many of the major buildings of nineteenth-century Melbourne, including the Melbourne Public Library, Melbourne Town Hall, Rippon Lea, Elsternwick, and Scots Church. The Melbourne International Exhibition building is one of the most notable buildings to be completed by Reed & Barnes. In 1883 Barnes retired, and A. Henderson and Francis Smart joined Joseph Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denton Corker Marshall
Denton Corker Marshall is an international architecture practice based in Melbourne, Australia. History Denton Corker Marshall was established in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1972. It was founded by architects John Denton, Bill Corker, and Barrie Marshall. Description and work While Melbourne remains the design base, the firm has additional practices in London, Manchester, and Jakarta, with over 510 projects in 37 different countries. In Australia, Denton Corker Marshall is best known for landmark buildings such as the Melbourne Museum, which features a "blade" section of roof rising to 35 metres, enclosing a small rainforest, the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, which has a roof resembling a giant aircraft wing, and the Melbourne Gateway and Bolte Bridge, both part of the CityLink project. The firm's work in Australia has been frequently and variously described as modernist, minimalist, sculptural and heroic. The practice has been consistently publicised in awards series, news an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Boyd (architect)
Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd (3 January 1919 – 16 October 1971) was an Australian architect, writer, teacher and social commentator. He, along with Harry Seidler, stands as one of the foremost proponents for the Modern architecture, International Modern Movement in Australian architecture. Boyd is the author of the influential book ''The Australian Ugliness'' (1960), a critique on Australian architecture, particularly the state of Australian suburbia and its lack of a uniform architectural goal. Like his American contemporary John Lautner, Boyd had relatively few opportunities to design major buildings and his best known and most influential works as an architect are his numerous and innovative small house designs. Background and early life Robin Boyd was a scion of the Boyd family, Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, and his extended family included painters, sculptors, architects, writers and others in the arts. Robin was the younger son of the painter Penleigh Boyd, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Roy Grounds
Sir Roy Burman Grounds (18 December 1905 – 2 March 1981) was an Australian architect. His early work included buildings influenced by the Moderne movement of the 1930s, and his later buildings of the 1950s and 1960s, such as the National Gallery of Victoria and the adjacent Victorian Arts Centre, cemented his legacy as a leader in Australian architecture. Artist Marr Grounds was his son. Early life and education Born on 18 December 1905 in Melbourne, Grounds was educated at several schools, including Scotch College Melbourne and Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. In the mid 1920s, he began his articles with the architectural firm of Blackett, Forster and Craig, where Geoffrey Mewton was doing the same. By 1928 they were both studying at the University of Melbourne Architectural Atelier, where they won first prize in an Institute of Architects Exhibition for a house costing under £1000. They both also won scholarships to further their studies later that year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Norris
Harry Albert Norris (12 June 1888 – 15 December 1966) was an Australian architect based in Melbourne, Victoria. He was especially known for his 1930s Art Deco and Streamline Moderne commercial work in the Melbourne central business district, and was one of the most prolific and successful interwar architects in the city. Early life and education Harry Albert Norris was born in Hawthorn, Victoria, on 12 June 1888. His childhood home was in Carlisle Street, Preston, and he lived in Preston for much of his life. Career Norris was one of the first architects to introduce the Art Deco style to major commercial projects, and was possibly the first architect to introduce elements of Streamline Moderne into mainstream design. His designs were informed by his regular overseas trips, especially to the United States, which he visited regularly every 18 months to two years from perhaps the late 1920s. In 1931, upon return from one of these trips, he said: "It is our duty not merel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahum Barnet
Nahum Barnet (16 August 1855 – 1 September 1931) was an architect working in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia during the Victorian and Edwardian periods, best known for his extensive legacy of commercial buildings in Melbourne's CBD, as well as his last design, the ''Melbourne Synagogue''. Barnet was born in the Melbourne Hospital on Swanston Street, the son of newly arrived Isaac Barnet, a Polish-born pawnbroker, tobacconist, and later a noted jeweller. Isaac was an active member of Melbourne's Jewish community throughout his life, as well as civic affairs, becoming a Councillor in the City of Collingwood in 1879.Miles LewisNahum Barnetat Australian Dictionary of Biography, access date Jan. 2010. Nahum Barnet began practicing as an architect in 1879, and was an early advocate of red brick and terracotta, then gaining popularity in England, rather than the ubiquitous stucco or stone. By the late 1880s he had produced some major works, including ''Rosaville'', an unusual and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pitt (architect)
William Pitt (4 June 1855 – 25 May 1918) was an Australian architect and politician. Pitt is best known as one of the outstanding architects of the "boom" era of the 1880s in Melbourne, designing some of the city's most elaborate High Victorian commercial buildings. He worked in a range of styles including Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, and his own inventive eclectic compositions. He had a notable second career after the crash of the 1890s, becoming a specialist in theatres and industrial buildings. Early life William Pitt was born in 1855 in MelbourneAustralian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition two years after his parents emigrated to Australia from , England. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Webb (architect)
Charles Webb (born 26 November 1821, Sudbury, Suffolk, England – 23 January 1898) was an architect working in Victoria, Australia during the 19th century. Notable Webb designs include the iconic Windsor Hotel, Royal Arcade, South Melbourne Town Hall and Tasma Terrace, all listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. Biography Charles Webb was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England on 26 November 1821, as the youngest of nine children. After being apprentice at an architect in London, in 1847 he became the secretary of the London Architectural Students' Society. Following his brother James who earlier migrated to Australia, Charles arrived in Melbourne on 2 June 1849. He set up an architecture and surveyor partnership with his brother at Brighton. Their first important commission was for the St Paul's Church on Swanston Street in 1850. After 1858 Webb practised on his own, until two of his sons joined him in 1888. In this period he designed several public buildings, including the Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles D'Ebro
Charles Abraham D'Ebro (1850–1920) was an Australian architect who designed many important buildings in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia during the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Many of these buildings are now preserved under heritage laws. From 1881 to 1885, he enjoyed a very productive partnership with John Grainger, the designer of the Princes Bridge, with whom he had emigrated to Adelaide in 1877.Tibbits, G. R. and Beauchamp, DJohn Harry Grainger: Engineer and Architect at ''3rd Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference 2009''. Retrieved 15 January 2013 Biography D'Ebro was born 27 October 1850 at 10 Bury Street, Bloomsbury,Birth Certificate of registration district St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, General Register Office London, the posthumous son of Charles D'Almandos D'Ebro,Charles D'Almandos D'Ebro was the son of Joseph Charles D'Ebro, Doctor in Law according to the marriage certificate at the General Register Office Baron and Chevalier, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John James Clark
John James Clark (23 January 1838 – 25 June 1915) was an Australian architect, who began his career at the age of 14 in the office of the Colonial Architect's Office in Melbourne, immediately after his family migrated from Liverpool in 1852. Clark's 30 years in public service, followed by 33 in private practice, produced some of Australia's most notable public buildings, and at least one in New Zealand. He is most famous as the designer of Melbourne's Old Treasury Building, Melbourne, Old Treasury Building aged only 19. Biography John James Clark, commonly referred to as JJ Clark, was born in Liverpool, England, on 23 January 1838 to parents George and Mary Clark. Clark was one of nine children. The family relocated from Liverpool to Melbourne, Australia in March 1852, in hopes of capitalising on the Victorian gold rush. Prior to leaving he had attended Collegiate College, Liverpool, where at thirteen he won first prize for drawing a finely detailed map of Liverpool – every ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wardell
William Wilkinson Wardell (1823–1899) was a noted architect who practiced in the second half of the 19th century, and is best known for a series of landmark buildings in Australia in Melbourne and Sydney. Following a successful career in the 1840s -50s as an ecclesiastical architect for the Catholic church in Britain, Wardell emigrated to the Colony of Victoria (state), Victoria in 1858. He then designed the Catholic cathedrals in both the major cities, St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, St Patrick's in Melbourne and St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, St Mary's in Sydney, as well as St John's College, University of Sydney, St John's College, at the St John's College, University of Sydney, University of Sydney, and numerous parish churches in Victoria. His Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival church designs have been compared favourably with his friend, English architect and Gothic pioneer Augustus Pugin. He also served as the Chief Architect of the Victorian Public Works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
