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A Quick Winter Trip to Melbourne

·Melbourne, Victoria, Australia·#winter#travel#architecture#australia#melbourne
A modern building with a curved, geometric facade of reflective glass and white triangular elements under a cloudy sky.

A quick winter trip, and most of the day went to the University of Melbourne. The new student building folds around a courtyard, pleated metal panels rising on both sides with vines trailing off the terraces, and from the upper floors the whole CBD stacks up to the south — a striped pink tower, a black one with pixelated eyes painted across its face, scape signs on the student housing below. One room near the top was set with rows of white chairs facing the skyline through tilted glass, a slide up for an internship panel running that fortnight.

On the way out I passed Arts West, wrapped in rippling louvres that bunch and spread so the whole facade seems to move as you walk past it. July is midwinter here, and the trees around it were mostly bare.

Then the twenty-odd kilometres back out to Tullamarine. Qantas domestic runs out of Terminal 1, and a QantasLink turboprop sat on the tarmac below the window with the ranges going hazy behind it.

A cityscape under an overcast sky features numerous tall modern buildings, one with a colorful pixelated facade.A wide cityscape featuring numerous skyscrapers, urban buildings, a street with tram tracks and cars, under a cloudy sky.A panoramic view of a city skyline with numerous skyscrapers under a cloudy sky.An empty conference room with rows of chairs facing a screen displaying an internship ad, overlooking a city skyline.A modern building with a wavy, dark grey facade and a curved corner stands among trees with green and yellow leaves under an overcast sky.Airport tarmac at sunset with Qantas planes docked at BINGE-branded jet bridges, ground vehicles, and distant mountains.

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