墨尔本市民广场

发布于：2023-05-21 21:54:14

Melbourne Civic Square

位置：澳大利亚墨尔本

分类：广场

内容：实景照片

图片：9张

在墨尔本第二中心丹德农新建了一个市民广场，为其多元化社区提供了一个热情而亲密的空间。在某个严寒的冬天，在一个新建的公共广场上闲逛可不是我最喜欢的活动。我最近去过的公共广场都是暴露在极端恶劣条件下的阴冷的地方，尽管建造者在建造时已经尽力打造其舒适性。这些广场大多在伦敦，它们是过去几年这座城市大型城市重建的结果。它们中一些为了赶上奥运会已经完工，而还有一些（如国王十字粮仓广场）却被搁浅了。伦敦就是这样一座城市，这里大多数场所的设计都是为了容纳大量人群和举行各式活动，粮仓广场也不例外。在一个人人都不想出门的天去这里，不难想象那会很荒凉。

在朗斯代尔街上，最近建成的丹德农市民广场入口，一丛南洋杉给人很不一样的感觉。这不是一个暴露在外面的广场，也不是一个正式场所。它却是一个惊艳的热情而亲密的空间，就算是在一个寒冷有风的天也不例外。景观元素和建筑的色彩活跃了这里，给人一种放松和平易近人的感觉。

译者: 柒柒

A new civic square in the heart of Melbourne’s second centre Dandenong offers a welcoming and intimate space to its diverse community.On a bitterly cold winter’s day, wandering a new public square isn’t my favourite activity. Often exposed despite best efforts at place making and amenity, the public squares that I’ve visited recently are bleak places in inclement weather. These have mostly been in London, products of that city’s extensive urban renewal exercises of the last few years, with some completed in the lead-up to the Olympics and others, such as the King’s Cross Granary Square, stranded in a sea of ongoing construction. London being the city it is, most of these spaces are designed to accommodate large numbers of people and changing events, and Granary Square is no exception, so visiting on an “off” day can feel quite desolate.

A thicket of araucarias, visible beyond the distinctive lower-level Lonsdale Street entry to RushWright Associates’ recently completed Dandenong Civic Square, is a sign of something different. This isn’t a plaza of the bare and spare variety, nor is it a formal space despite the expectations the typology invokes. It is, instead, a surprisingly welcoming and intimate space, even on a cold and windy day. Splashes of colour in both landscape elements and Lyons’ buildings enliven the space and while this is a tactic that can sometimes verge on gimmickry, here it instigates a relaxed and to what could in other hands be a more stilted affair.