What’s in a Postcode? Great Diversity and the Evolution of a City
The last few weeks have been a very exciting time with a wonderful diversity of projects to work on and produce. I've just finished photographing a very eclectic selection of Melbourne buildings for Professor Rob Adams and his team at City Design, City of Melbourne, for an exhibition.
These buildings range from the Hong Kong style skyscraper apartments in City Road, highlighted by the Eureka Tower, all the way through to small 4 to 6 storey apartment buildings like the famous Majorca Building, and the first purpose-built apartment building, Little Hero in Russell Place. This last was designed by Fender Katsalidis and constructed off-site in complete units, then assembled on a very small foot print - the first unitised building.
What brought such a diversity of buildings into one exhibition? A number, Postcode 3000. It's 30 years since this CBD postcode was established. To mark the occasion City of Melbourne has put on an exhibition. It includes scale models printed on a 3D printer, which I also photographed in my studio. My favourite aspect to this assignment was that all images for print were to be in B&W. Beautiful.
See some of Melbourne’s most interesting places to live in my photo gallery. Then go down to the exhibition for the full story of the evolution of this postcode from 1983 with 685 dwellings to 2013 with 28,097 dwellings. I'm sure you'll enjoy the black and white displays with beautifully lit 3D models. There's also some excellent video shot from cycle-cam by Daniel Hargrove.
Postcode 3000: A city transformed? runs until 21 December at the City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall.