You want me to what? - 1-18-12

That's some crazy skin

On our final scheduled day with RMIT "tourgroup" we were planned to visit most of their campus with the head of the college.  Their campus is spread throughout a portion of the city, but a group of their buildings are concentrated in an area right outside their main college of construction facility.  This gave us a brief, but nonetheless in depth, tour of several adaptively reused buildings and a couple brand new state of the art buildings; one still under construction.  This again illustrates the juxtaposition of old and new: a theme throughout the city. 

Poor sheet rock guys.

Moving on from the simple tour of existing structures, we were lucky enough to get a tour of the new RMIT business school that was currently under construction, and 8 months ahead of schedule.  The contractor was a very impressive group, and it showed through the organization and management of one of the most complex, unique and differentiated building I have ever toured.  They must have let the architects run wild on this one because no two openings were the same, no two angles of the cladding were identical, and the finishes inside were some of the most ridiculously intricate designs I had personally ever seen.  Architects are a strange breed and it shows through this building.  One of those "you want me to build what?" kind of structures.

Fairly ornate entrance.

Time for some refreshments and wandering around the night market after the long day on sites.  We met up with a group of friends living at RMIT Village with us, and headed for the Melbourne equivalent of Auburn's Wednesday drink specials: the Night Market.  Here we got into sangra, honey dumplings, some ridiculously expensive market shopping (makes me miss Asia), and later off to a bar down town that was supposed to be a backpacker type of place, but turned out to likely be a gay bar.  I still can't be sure as everyone there was English, and sometimes you just can't tell with that lot.  Ended up being an awesome night as we made our own dance party, led by the great Chris.  Haha.  Plain and simple post; plain and simple day.

Cheers.