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CREATIONS DESIGN SUMMER 2007/08 MADE IN SOUTH BANK YOURS TO KEEP iORPHEUS: SOUTH BANK’S OPERA OF THE FUTURE ANDY WARHOL at GoMA NEW GALLERY Master town planner Dr John Montgomery on cultural quarters BOSS World Expo 20th TONY ELLWOOD anniversary celebrations CREATIONSCREATIONS FEATURE DESIGN 3 creations THE COMPLEXITIES OF made in south bank cultural quarters 8 20 16 6 A very warm In this issue, you can … of World Expo 88, South Bank learn some crazy ways with Meet the new gallery boss, Tony style 10 check out the Young watermelon 26 check out the How does Brisbane’s welcome to the Ellwood 18 deconstruct cultural Designers’ Markets 8 see what’s many, many fun festivities South summer edition quarters with master town on in the cultural quarter 16 take Bank has planned for South Bank shape up? planner, Dr John Montgomery 3 a tour of South Bank with our 10 the summer 30 and much, of Creations discover the extraordinary story year old guide, Ruby 28 sample much more. By Dr John Montgomery behind iOrpheus—South Bank’s two groovy new restaurants magazine. What does a master town futuristic public opera 14 take a 23 see who won what at the And every last little planner make of Brisbane’s sneak peek at GoMA’s awesome Restaurant & Catering Awards South Bank? Andy Warhol exhibition 21 22 see what’s been happening bit of it is made in celebrate the 20th anniversary and who’s been there 24 South Bank. Dr John Montgomery says Brisbane’s South Bank contains an impressive set of large cultural institutions. But does this a cultural quarter make? Acknowledgements John believes much remains Contributors Photography Advertising enquiries Published by South Bank Corporation to be done if Brisbane is to Danielle Dunsmore, Fiona Evans, Alan James, Hussain Al Moosawi (third year design Kristy Roberts Level 3 South Bank House rival Melbourne, Dublin or Dr John Montgomery, Nina Persson, student, Queensland College of Art), Tel: 3867 2036 Stanley Street Plaza Barcelona. A danger he sees Susannah Tucker, Glenda Viner Bruce Peebles [email protected] South Bank is that the property boom Brisbane Design Paper: Nordset is manufactured using Editorial enquiries could drive out all of the small Tell Creative Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) pulp Fiona Evans PO Box 2001 sourced from sustainable, well Tel: 3867 2035 South Bank Q 4101 elements of interest, leaving Printing: Scanlon Printing managed forests. fi [email protected] www.southbankcorporation.com.au only “culture sheds” set in left-over space. Copyright is reserved throughout. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the express written permission of South Bank Corporation. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy at the time of printing, South Bank Corporation cannot be held responsible for any errors contained herein. Published December 2007. 4 5 Most great cities have identifi able It should also include cultural and formal activities with more creativity as a source of added quarters to which artists and consumption—people going social pursuits. value. Creativity generates new cultural entrepreneurs are to shows, visiting venues and ideas, new ways of working attracted—Soho in London, New galleries. These should be as As a rule, the most lively and new products. Brisbane’s York’s Lower East Side, or the varied as possible, including and interesting cultural creative industries are growing, Left Bank in Paris, for instance. at the small and medium quarters—such as Temple and there is a good supply of Such places have a long history, scale where the objective is to Bar in Dublin—tend to be new graduates through the and appear to have happened encourage new work and a more places of complex variety, universities and TAFEs, many the most lively and by accident, or evolved in the active street life. with a large representation of located within a fi ve kilometre general development of a city small-scale business activity. radius of South Bank. interesting cultural over time. More recently, some As well as performance venues, Successful cultural economies cultural quarters have deliberately there should also be rehearsal are characterised by increasing The public realm and associated been planned. The South and practice spaces, and private volumes of trade, constant semi-public spaces provide the quarters—such as Brisbane Peninsula is one such galleries and performance innovation and the building up terrain for social interaction in place, and needs to consider venues. It is important that as of new products and services, successful urban places. If public how it will move forward to be many venues as possible should networks of suppliers spaces are well-designed, safe Temple Bar in Dublin— recognised internationally as the remain open in the evenings as and purchasers. and comfortable, social activity city’s cultural quarter. well as during the day. Successful can develop through varying cultural precincts tend to have Within a cultural quarter, a good degrees of contact. In a good tend to be places of An essential pre-requisite for a a strong evening economy. The proportion of such businesses public space, necessary activities cultural precinct is the presence possibilities for more activity will operate within the creative quickly take second place to complex variety of cultural activity. This should around the clock are there to be and cultural industries—now optional ones, from which include cultural production— exploited. Much of the attraction widely regarded as a growth varying degrees of social activity people making objects, goods, of cultural quarters is that it is sector globally. What they have can emerge. In the end, good products and providing services. possible to merge day and night, in common is the concept of places create their own dynamic of watching, being watched dangers—small-scale creative Finally, there is the question of Dr John Montgomery was educated in and meeting. businesses and cultural scale. Some cultural quarters are Edinburgh and Oxford, and is a Fellow organisations can be driven out simply too large and unwieldy of the Royal Society. He has specialised To be successful, a cultural in the arts and urban revitalisation, the by rising land values, rents and to work well as social spaces— quarter needs to maintain what development of creative industries, and it is good at, while remaining redevelopment. This is a potential much of the South Bank in the design of cultural quarters for cities fl exible and highly adaptive, threat to arts businesses along London for example. Partly, including London, Manchester, Dublin, embracing change, new ideas Montague Road and in and this is a question of “heroic” Glasgow, Prague, Melbourne and Sydney. and new work. Failure to do so around West End. architecture being allowed to His new book, The New Wealth of Cities: might mean that the cultural dominate. Large buildings reduce City Dynamics and the Fifth Wave, is quarter will disappear entirely, permeability and public space. published by Ashgate (www.ashgate. or become simply a collection Beyond this, cultural precincts com) and is available on special order from the Gallery Store at the Queensland of publicly-funded venues and To be successful, can fail because they are too Art Gallery (3840 7290). facilities, or else an emblem of a cultural quarter far away from other active former culture—“heritage”. places—such as a restaurant How does South Bank needs to maintain strip, retail area, or even other Many cultural quarters start shape up? cultural venues. off well, but tend to ossify or what it is good at, We’d welcome your thoughts. disappear altogether, being taken while remaining The important point for designers Please drop us a line … over by competing uses (offi ces to bear in mind is that people [email protected] and apartments) or becoming fl exible and highly will only walk so far, and will part of the “heritage industry”. See also … … good places create their own adaptive, embracing only do so if the route is safe iOrpheus: South Bank’s opera of dynamic of watching, being Others might well continue to change, new ideas and interesting, and if there are the future (page 14) develop and grow, however places of interest at either end. Young Designers’ Markets watched and meeting … success too can have its and new work. That is, if you can cross the road! (page 8) 6 CREATIONS DEVELOPMENT 7 Marco Gold out with friends and going on Traveller (from Germany) spontaneous trips through & Financial Advisor Europe. Hey, that’s a pretty cool Moonlight movies or outdoor name for a fi nancial advisor! music festivals? Summer music Yeah, cheers! festivals! You always have a choice—you can either join the What are you up to now? crowd and dance the night away, I’m enjoying the relaxed or relax under a tree and get lost New life and more atmosphere at South Bank. Taking in conversation, while everyone is the opportunity to update my diary. having a great time around you. And get lost in my thoughts. What song would be your What are you looking forward obvious choice for a summer to this summer? It won’t be soundtrack? Sunshine by colour coming summer for me as I’m on my way Patrice. back to Germany in December. Looking forward to Christmas What’s your favourite thing with my family and seeing my about South Bank? South Bank friends again. is the place to go if you feel like you need a break. Escape for a to What’s your favourite little while, let the atmosphere summer pastime? I love capture your mind and you’ll Grey playing beach volleyball, hanging leave with a smile.