Spencer Street, Melbourne

Spencer Street, Melbourne is an exploration of the weird and wonderful architectural forms in the heart of this bustling metropolis

Urban city environments can feel like claustrophobic concrete jungles if you rush around with your head down, focused on the ground (or your phone), as many of us do.

With no organising stylistic ethos, the buildings that inhabit one of Melbourne's main thoroughfares thrust their way upwards towards the heavens in cacophony of steel and concrete. When the sun bounces off a wall of glass, or the wind howls through tunnels lined with skyscrapers, the affect feels menacing, inhospitable.

If you take the time to reorient your view, it is possible to completely alter your perception of the weird and wonderful architectural forms around you. Look up, and the angular, dissonant lines of the concrete jungle are transformed into rhythmic shapes, forms and textures that seem to dance in the play of light and dark.