Flinders Street

GRAPHIC BUILDING ANALYSIS Flinders Street Station HISTORICAL CONTEXT Originally, a collection of weatherboard train sheds named the Melbourne Terminus, previously stood where Flinders Street Station stands now today. The Terminus was officially opened on the 12th of September, 1854 and was the first city railway in Australia. By the 1880s these buildings were considered inadequate and a competition was held for the redesign of the station. The competition was won by James Fawcett and HPC Ashworth of the Railways Department who excelled over 17 other competition entries with their French Renaissance-styled design. Demolition of the original station and other buildings on the site commenced in 1900 and Peter Rodger commenced construction…

Flinders Street Station, constructed from 1905 and opened in 1910, stands to be one of Melbourne’s major social and cultural landmarks and Australia’s busiest railway stations as it is one of the most heavily used public spaces in Melbourne. The very first railway line was constructed in 1854, after which saw further lines and platforms added that were also repositioned prior and after manufacture of the main building. An enthusiasm for railway development quickly sparked with the discovery of…

For instance, Chinese New Year, Mid Autumn Moon Festival, Vietnamese New Year, Indian Festival of light, Bendigo Easter Festival etc. Additionally, Iconic buildings which are not only some of heritage buildings; Flinders street station, Melbourne town hall but also some of recent urban development such as Federation square, Souther cross station etc. (study.vic.gov.au 2014). secondly, according to a American tourist’s interview, it is said that “there is no garden next to the city like Melbourne…

didn’t want to be seen but she had to get out. She opened the front door to a hot wind and a heavy cocktail of diesel and petrol as cars and trucks hurtled down Hyde Street and Francis Street. Next door Mrs Keen was listening to morning television. In the distance someone else was listening to the races. Across the road behind the cyclone wire, several men in safety jackets and helmets stood at the base of one of the tanks looking up. The tanks still and defiant, shrugged them off. The men…

The history of bowling goes way back to the 3200BC in egypt. In the 1930’s Sir Flinders Petrie found a colection of objects that represented bowlig in a egyptions childs grave. There are documents that show a form of bowling in England in 1366, when King Edward III banned it inorder to make the troops focused on archery practice. It also seems that bowling during King Henry VIII time at throne was much alive. At this time there were still many variations of “pin games”, such as lawn bowling…

history. Brown also served five years in the British army. During his years in the army he was “an ensign and assistant surgeon” (Britannica 1). “President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, recommended Brown to the Admiralty for the post of naturalist abroad a ship, called the investigator” (Britannica 1). Brown had been going through college with a career in medicine but later on found that he desired to study plants instead. When Brown was in London for an outing he had noticed the…

by a Weather Channel Meteorologist. And I’ll be honest, at a times it has felt so much easier to just be black. Being a minority is hard enough, but being a minority of a minority? That 's simply too hard sometimes. Too much ignorant questions to answer to and too little time to educate that ignorance, and sometimes you can frankly tell that they genuinely don 't care enough to want to be educated. But I’ll take the time to do so today, because knowing about where I came from very much will…

As time goes on, the question of whether humans are selfish or not becomes a controversey and is widely disscussed. After reading true stories of unfortunate situations and observing many reaserches, it all becomes clear that mankind is greedy and will do anything to benefit themselves. Authors such as;Charles Montgomery, Todd Schwartz, Richard Lemiux and John Chapman knew this all along and that is why they chose to share their eye-opening stories and research with the public. In any time of…

disconnected clues. With the information given from a variety of other climbing boys, she is capable of determining the region in which the master sweep currently containing Tommy can be found. While roaming the streets, Emmaline comes across a boy who knows of a deaf sweep who fits the description of her brother, however, has a different name; Moony. Named for the way he watches the moon and the fact he is only able to communicate the letter “M”, she then works with this knowledge to conclude…

dogs and smoke, and the boring view of towering concrete buildings. People scurry like ants through the maze of streets attempting to make it to their subway train on time. Hundreds of people fill the streets, creating a wall that is nearly impossible to push through. They look straight ahead, making a point not to talk to anyone. Others have their noses in their phones and a coffee in their hands. People standing outside of hotels shoving pamphlets into tourists hands and screaming for the…