Images from Google Maps & Google Earth:
Red marks the spot!
Site Analysis
King Street of Newtown is one of the busiest street around this area and according to the city of Sydney webite, it was 'the first suburban shopping centre outside the city centre'. This thoroughfare is still a shoppers’ paradise today. Hundreds of stores, cafes and restaurants lined along this street, giving it a happy & lively mood with a tinge of Bohemian ambiance. It is a diverse place where people of different ethnic, background & religion can meet, exchange ideas and do activities.
Buildings along the way are mostly of Victorian or Federation styles. And the building that I've chosen is a fairly modern one, about 6 meters wide (a very narrow site indeed), sandwiched in between two Victorian style buildings as shown below. It catches my eyes from the moment I first look at it.
Buildings on both sides:
Other reasons for me to choose this site:
i) Beautiful sun set scene facing the street (viewed from the perspective of my selected building)
ii) little garden at the back of my ideal site
Selected artists & their artworks
Anselm Kiefer (
Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe
1984-1986
280.0 x 380.0 x 75.0cm overall
358.1987.a-b
Cal Lane (
Detail of tracery
Hood & door, 2006
plasma cut steel car parts
Wheel Barrel, 2006
6 cubit feet
plasma cut steel wheel barrel
These images are from Cal Lane's website:
http://www.callane.com/page9.html
Ideas & inspirations from the artworks by:
Anselm Keifer:
- texture, sense of touch --> materiality, brutalism
- sudden projection of things out of a (fairly) smooth surface
- turn junk into ‘gold’, i.e. she has managed to create delicate tracery out of unwanted metal/tin cans. It's simply fantastic!! --> perforated screen --> diffused light
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