Architecturally speaking, much of what stands tall in Perth is depressingly typical of what stands tall in just about every other substantial city on “our” planet.
Most post-1960 “towers” are both bland and brutal.
However, Perth’s unusually intense winter light can work “magic”, when combined with the happy fact that “vertical”, “flat” glass panes are hardly ever truly vertical or truly flat.
Above, and in all but one of the other photos in this first of two chapters, you are looking at the exterior surfaces of corporate towers, just north of Elizabeth Quay.
The image immediately below is the only one which looks directly at any part of Elizabeth Quay.
For the other photos, a telephoto lens was focused on the “skin” of one of the aforementioned, nearby corporate towers.
However, Elizabeth Quay is a key presence in all of this post’s images.
Click here to see and learn much more of/about Elizabeth Quay, aka “Betty’s Jetty”.
The photos in this post (and its sequel) were taken inside a “window” of a few minutes, as we walked from the Quay’s ferry station to Yagan Square.
Elizabeth Quay sits on the southern (Swan River) end of the CBD-proper, whilst Yagan Square is on its northern edge.
Quay and Square are just ten minutes apart, on foot.
On the first afternoon of July 2024 the reflective surfaces of the nearby, aforementioned towers provided ever-shifting, “abstracted” versions of the still-ongoing construction work at Elizabeth Quay.
