"The building - the void: an interesting city interplay"
Guillermo Aranda-Mena
CARVE Verb: (often to be carved) cut (a hard material) in order to produce and aesthetically pleasant object or design. Carve out: take something from a large whole, esp. with difficulty. Establish or create something through painstaking effort.
MONOLITH Noun: French monolithe. Greek monos (single) + lithos (stone).
1. A large single upright block of stone, esp. one shaped into or serving as pillar or monument.
- A very large characterless building: the 72 story monolithic building overlooking the waterfront
- A very large block of concrete sunk in water, e.g. in the building of a dock.
2. a large and impersonal political, corporate or social structure regarded as intractibly, indivisible and uniform.
From top to bottom:
- Delft Square, NL
- Federation Square, Melbourne
- The Botanical Gardens, Melbourne
- Hoi An Market, Vietnam
- Lugano, Ticino
- Rome, ‘la ciudad eterna’
- Cycling path along the Yarra River - Melbourne inner-city.
- Melbourne CBD seen from Studley Park - Melbourne inner-city (suburbs are further out!)
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| Carving sculptures - inspired in Alexander Calder. GAM 1995 |
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| Carving a bird-eye view of Sydney. GAM 2007 |
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| Carving a view framed by Sydney harbor, trees, bridge and SOH. GAM 2007 |
