Viewpoints – Placecloud

Whitton is the oldest town in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area and offers a glimpse at a timeless Riverina landscape. It also has ghosts.

Tiptree, United Kingdom. A musing on tangible history in the present.

The man behind the name of Dubbo’s low-level bridge was a Frenchman from Bordeaux, France. Jean Emile Serisier was an enterprising man considered a founding father of Dubbo, storekeeper, winemaker, magistrate and wannabe politician. Unfortunately, the bridge named after him has a habit of going under in big floods.

When the LH Ford Bridge was opened in Dubbo in 1969, replacing the old timber ‘White Bridge’ that had provided an east-west crossing since 1866, it was one of the first pre-stressed bridges in NSW and the fourth longest highway bridge in New South Wales. But shortly after its opening, the middle section of the bridge began to sag.

The bridges crossing the Wambuul Macquarie River near the City of Dubbo are built structures that tell a story of the colonial and settler history of the region, through their construction and namesakes. They were built across water and land that has a much older story to tell. This is Wiradjuri Country, the traditional, unceded lands of a culture tens of thousands of years old.

Archidiocese of Canterbury, United Kingdom. Dover Esplanade, by Tonkin Liu, consists of three bespoke, site-specific sculptural waves that bring a new interactive dynamism to the Esplanade, taking inspiration from Dover’s identity; the gentle nature of waves on the sheltered beach, the rhythmical sweep of the Georgian seafront terrace and the undulating topography of the white cliffs of Dover.

Burnley, United Kingdom. The Singing Ringing Tree is a musical sculpture standing in the wind on a hill overlooking Burnley, designed by Tonkin Liu.

SalehYemen, United Kingdom. The award-winning Swing Bridge, inspired by a bony fish, provides access to the Crystal Palace Dinosaur Islands.

Tucson, United States. A large experimental complex built in the late 1980s to explore the possibility of living outside of the Earth ("Biosphere 1") should the Earth become uninhabitable.

Lark (historical), United States. This active mine is the likely the second biggest open pit copper mine in the world, slightly smaller than the Chuquicamata pit in Chile.