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Road Portraits
The roads are wide in Fishermans Bend. They are also one of the precincts greatest assets for their potential to be used for open space1 according to Tracey Slatter, former CEO of the City of Port...
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Back to School
More road explorations – a road closure this time Students returning to Albert Park College make their way to school past a sculpture of a nurse and a worn out soldier. Maybe they don’t know or care...
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Health of the Bay – now and in future
Late Sunday afternoon was oppressive. Rain was forecast – 94% likelihood. The rain clouds teased in the distance off Princes Pier. Lenny watched the ships far down the Bay to make his weather...
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Pubs in Port
Across inner Melbourne, pubs are disappearing ‘in a building boom unprecedented in its scale and tempo’.1 The illegal demolition of the Corkman in Carlton has catalysed concern about the loss of the...
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A very PORT park
In the farthest corner of Port Melbourne where it meets Webb Dock, an eagerly awaited new park and playspace opened this week. The community park is the last of the public benefit works to be delivered...
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Heritage in Southbank
The City of Melbourne has acted to protect two of the remaining significant heritage buildings in Southbank – the Castlemaine Brewery on Queensbridge Street and the PMG workshops on Sturt Street....
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Double Demolition
I wasn’t intending to write about hotels this week, but when demolition of two corner hotels began on the same day this week, I changed my mind. Holding the corner of Montague St and Thistlethwaite St...
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The Power of Pink
The workings of algae, salt and temperature have caused a visitor boom to Westgate Park. On 7 March, Parks Victoria posted on facebook Westgate Park’s salt lake has turned pink again this season: a...
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Behind the Wall
So much of what we consume – some say as much as 90% – comes through the Port, yet what happens behind the newly built corten wall on Todd Road is a bit of a mystery. Travelling west over the Westgate...
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Air Pollution at Station Pier
The cruise ship season extends into May. P & O’s Pacific Eden was in today. Station Pier is off limits to foot traffic on cruise ship days but the western wing pier is a more relaxed place to be...
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Piers Festival Adaptation
Princes Pier was to have come to life on Sunday for the 6th Annual Piers Festival but a severe weather warning means it will now be held at the South Melbourne Town Hall. In between events Princes Pier...
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1-7 Waterfront Place
A planning application will soon be decided by the Port Phillip Council for the blighted, fire ravaged site at 1-7 Waterfront Place, Port Melbourne. The site’s deterioration and dereliction following...
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Easter Exploration
It’s been a while since I’ve idled through Fishermans Bend. With not a soul out and about, and barely a car to be seen over Easter – Fishermans Bend was quiet. There is a pause about the place,...
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Jane’s Walk
Emerald Hill to Gasworks – the people and politics that shaped a landscape Sunday 7 May 2017 urban creek in South Melbourne Each year in the first weekend of May, walks are held in cities around the...
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Midden
Last stop on Jane’s Walk: from Emerald Hill to Gasworks A story of transformation Midden – a scattering of sculpture on the rain green grass responds to the Gasworks story. Matthew Harding’s work sits...
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They may not quite be the ridges that gave Sandridge its name but Port’s dunes are beginning to undulate – their soft forms covered with coastal grasses. Sand accretes in some places and decreases in...
View Article134 – 142 Ferrars Street, Montague
8 May 2017 After four years, a permit has been granted for this site. Down from the originally proposed 49 storeys, the building is now approved at 18 storeys and includes 17 three bedroom homes and 6...
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