Monday, October 29, 2012

November 2012 Where in Melbourne Puzzle

Where in Melbourne Puzzle - November 2012.

THIS PUZZLE HAS BEEN REVEALED

The first clue will be revealed November 5th 2012.


Clue 1 - Know locally as "Little Saigon"

 
Clue 2 - This street has been named after a Queen.


Clue 3 - A favourite store with renovators at the end of the street should give this location away.


Solve - Victoria Street, Richmond
taken with a X35 zoom facing east from Hoddle Street.
 

Victoria street was originally named during the reign of Queen Victoria,
who at that time was also the ruler of Australia.
 
Due to a mixture of her popularity and a certain patriotism about their state, many developers and local councillors named streets in their localities Victoria Street. Nearly all of Melbourne's oldest suburbs contain a Victoria Street, most of them dating from this era.
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria's reign of 63 years and seven months, was longer than that of any other British monarch and the longest of any female monarch in history, is known as the Victorian era.
 
It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.

And what of the future ?

Every year thousands of people gather on Victoria Street to celebrate Vietnamese and Chinese culture for Lunar New Year. The Lunar New Year street festival has grown from a small community gathering of local families to become one of Melbourne's most anticipated cultural celebrations.

Victoria Street Gateway Project
Victoria Street Gateway Project proposes a themed gateway on Victoria Street near the intersection with Hoddle Street, one of Melbourne's busiest road crossings.

The gateway's design concept incorporates Vietnamese and Chinese cultural and historical imagery. Preliminary concepts propose a large structure that symbolises Vietnamese boat and bird forms. This structure would be illuminated at night to highlight the entry to Victoria Street's restaurant precinct. Large Vietnamese hats would be suspended above the roadway at the Hoddle Street intersection.

Victoria Street Gateway Project
The colourful hats would provide shadows during the day and creative street lighting in the evening. The rail bridge would also feature a bamboo graphic that would light up at night to provide another lighting element to the gateway.
 
However, designs, timelines and budgets are yet to be developed for further stages of works.   

Victoria Street, Richmond as seen in Google Earth

http://www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/services/Infrastructure/victoria-street-gateway-project/

The next Puzzle will be posted on the 3rd of December 2012. 

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