Saturday 15 November 2014

CONVENTION CENTRE REFLECTIONS

The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre is the name given to two adjacent buildings next to the Yarra River in South Wharf, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Owner and manager of the venues is the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Trust.

The new Convention Centre, on land adjacent to the Exhibition Centre, was completed in 2009. At a cost of A$1 billion, the development consists of a 5541 seat Plenary Hall that can be divided into three separate theatres, 32 meeting rooms of various sizes, a grand banquet room as well as a Hilton hotel, office, residential and retail space.

Polly Woodside is a Belfast-built, three-masted, iron-hulled barque, preserved in Melbourne, Australia, and forming the central feature of the South Wharf precinct. The ship was originally built in Belfast by William J. Woodside and was launched in 1885. Polly Woodside is typical of thousands of smaller iron barques built in the last days of sail, intended for deep water trade around the world and designed to be operated as economically as possible.

This post is part of the Weekend Reflections meme,
and also part of the Weekly TopShot meme.





4 comments:

  1. I wish we had the Harbour, but we don't. So as you have shown, it is important to maximise the pleasure gained from beaches, the Yarra River, the docks area and any other water in the city and suburbs. The more reflections of the water, the better.

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  2. Nice serie... I like the first one, with the veil boat.

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  3. I like the way these photos progress from the straightforward tot he abstract! Great series!

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