Famous Architectural Designs Of Australia
Whether you’re fitting cantilever racking to your home or looking at the structure of a bridge, the effects of architecture are everywhere. Great architecture isn’t just functional, with devices such as pillars, facades and wire partitions, these creations can become considered real works of art. Australia is a country not usually known for great architecture, as this is usually a comment reserved for countries that have been in Western society for thousands of years and have a long history of art, but there are a number of well-known works of architecture in this country. This article will mention a few of these buildings and the cultural effects they have had.
The Sydney Opera House is located in Sydney, Australia and was built at the behest of Queen Elizabeth the Second. A Hungarian man, who did not feel his efforts were properly acknowledged, designed it. At the time of his demise a few years ago, however, he was commended by the Australian public, with news programs carrying the story of his death and the effect his design has had.
The Opera House is located in Sydney Harbor, and going over the harbor is the Sydney Harbor Bridge. This bridge took decades to create and is one of Australia’s most well-known landmarks, along with the Opera House. It opened in the 1950’s to a large amount of controversy. At the time the ribbon was about to be cut to symbolize the opening of the bridge, a man riding a horse appeared and shouted, “I declare the bridge open!”, bringing the sword he was carrying down and cutting the ribbon. This wasn’t a rehearsed stunt but the act of a brazen man breaking the law, and he was promptly arrested. When the bridge “officially” declared open the ribbon was put back together. Despite this, a lot of Australians like to think of this lone man as the man who really opened the bridge, and admire his zaniness and courage at such an act.
While these are the two most well-known of Australia’s designs, there are a lot of others. Melbourne is the capital of the state of Victoria, and contains the park known as Federation Square. Some think this to be a rather bizarrely shaped design, with the large SBS Television building being created in a seemingly crazy fashion, somewhat similar to the next London Olympics logo.
Australia is also the place of a rather weird design practice. While no one is really sure why, there is a number of tourist’s locations situated around Australia that have sculptures of objects that are created on a very large scale. These tourist attractions are known as The Big Prawn, The Big Banana, The Big Marino, The Big Pineapple; to name a few. It’s not really clear why these structures have become a hallmark of Australia, but it might reflect something about the strange Australian sense of humor.
While there’s nothing to match Australia with countries like Italy and Greece in terms of feats of design, there are a number of creations that regularly attract tourists looking to see unique designs in a beautiful setting.
