Description - Design City Melbourne by Leon van Schaik
Melbourne is now coming to the fore as a design hotspot. With
three and a half million inhabitants, it is on a scale that
is livable and diverse. Its rich and varied cultural intimacy
has enabled it to build up a unique dynamism, which is set to
shift the entire design agenda of the world - much
like Barcelona did in the 1980s and Antwerp did in the 1990s.
Melbourne is to be the city of the noughties.
The intense plurality of Melbourne's recent design culture is
due to have a vast impact on the way in which we think about
city regions and living in them. This is a story of wonderful
spaces: in civic and institutional buildings; in galleries,
bars, clubs and restaurants; in one of the world's tallest
residential apartment buildings; in beach houses and mountain
shacks; in workshops and studios; and in international sports
venues.
As Melbourne hosts the Commonwealth games in 2006, a vast influx
of visitors will be experiencing these spaces for the first
time. Through luscious photography and an accessible text,
Design City Melbourne is devised not only to
illustrate a wide range of fascinating interiors and their
architecural matrices, but also to describe the people behind
them and how these spaces support the vital culture of
this uniquely mixed and cosmopolitan city. A metropolis that
is situated in the same time zone as China, and which is pioneering
in its European colonial matrix the admixture of new Asian urban
forms.
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