FACADE (AMIEU)
With one of the signature stainless steel Bulls Head downlights that ceremoniously flank the entrance.
Frontage lights manifesting as stylized stainless steel bulls heads flank the entrance way. Evoking gargoyles they also reference the traditional symbols of animal husbandry, the cast iron animal heads flanking the interior wholesale bays in the Victorian era North Melbourne Meat Market building (later the Meat Market Craft Centre) and the rendered low relief animal forms in the facade of the Victoria Market, both in Melbourne. They are a mannered reference to the AMIEU and celebrate the type of representational iconography that occurs throughout the history of the development of medieval guilds into contemporary unions. Light is thrown up and down, rather than forward, which illuminates the granite with a backwash of light, highlighting the form physically and metaphorically showing the way
The fabricated sheet forms reflect the manner by which they were designed through the agency of paper engineering - a field in which Lueckenhausen worked for many years (see paper construction section of this site).