West End Walk
Went for a walk into West End via the CBD. Thought I’d take a few pictures – enjoy.

Little Larder – great for breakfast and on my street.
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Apartment buildings on my street.
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Crane up the street – apartments under construction.
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Interesting way to get to your home – your own funicular railway from your house to your garage.
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Park at the top of my street
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View from the park
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Path leading down into the CBD – under the bridge
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LOL – stencilled graffiti, there is a lot of interesting graffiti in Brisbane’s inner suburbs.
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Under the Bridge
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View from under the bridge to the river
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Path down into the city
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Hidden Alley through the Admiralty district
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Looking up at Aurora – she’s getting taller!!
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Eagle Street - $$$$ real estate!!!
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Post office square
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Top of the Mall
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Casino
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Brisbane Square
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Victoria Bridge
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Riverside Expressway
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Cultural Centre busway station
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South Brisbane Railway Station – watch this space in the future for a possible very big tower or two. Used to be Brisbane’s main interstate station.
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Street Art – very Brisbane
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A Bin – Ibis proof of course
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Staffan’s Skyneedle – an old leftover from Expo 88. It has a light beam that sweeps around the city occasionally and can be seen from 70km away.
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Punjabi Palace – now we are getting into West End restaurant precinct, oh and notice the development everywhere.
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More weird art – this one lights up and shoots steam:P
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And now we are into West End. Probably my favourite Brisbane Suburb. Its very multicultural, very funky, very happening and compared to other suburbs is very real. In West End anything goes – similar to Newtown in Sydney though sometimes it feels more like Nimbin.
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On my way home now.
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Brisbane square rising up.
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More Aurora
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Decided to take the low road back – below the cliffs and along the Floating Riverwalk. Most is self explanatory, the homes and building on the cliffs and above the river are ones I passed earlier along the street.
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Funicular Railway
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And this house used to be a rowing shed – they have the railway:P
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Block of flats – if you look just under the roof line you will notice a camera, its for Channel 9 news.
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Development in Kangaroo Point
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Looking Back – Police boat on one side and nice boys on the other:P
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The end – hoped you liked my little tour.

Awesome JayT, you are so lucky living in New Farm, it's such a great suburb, it has real style.

The cliffs are pretty cool, like someone said a Natural beauty that is underrated in Brisbane. I wanna try and get an apartment in your area, looks amazing and tempting.

yeah I Wanna live in....

Milton/West End/New Farm/Valley

Somewhere near these areas :)

Nice pics...

Though I question whether youve been to nimbin, because it is nothing like West End... IMO...

yeah I Wanna live in....

Milton/West End/New Farm/Valley

Somewhere near these areas :)

Nice pics...

Though I question whether youve been to nimbin, because it is nothing like West End... IMO...

I lived very close to Nimbin for several years - and go occasionally too.

Awesome Pics Jay T love your work, Brisbane has grown so much

Great photos there JayT. I love some of your artistic photos ya have there.

Great tour. I have never really seen the Brisbane skyline or riverside properly. Been there twice but night both times and awhile ago. I wouldn't be surprised if it has the best skyline in Australia one day, not too mention many suburban high-rise like Sydney.

Great photos JayT. I quite liked the area just north of Storey Bridge (up on the cliffs) when I was up there a few years ago. It has the same sort of feel and look as Neutral Bay and parts of Kirribilli in Sydney, near the water, albeit with more people about. Nice.

what a nice skyline! i also love eagle st and post office square, for that good city feeling...

Yay.

The cliffs are pretty cool, like someone said a Natural beauty that is underrated in Brisbane. I wanna try and get an apartment in your area, looks amazing and tempting.

I can assure you there is nothing natural about them. All those cliffs along the Brisbane River were man made, with early settlers using them as a quarry. Some of Brisbane's earliest buildings including the Commissariat Store were built with stone from these quarries. If you ever get a chance to see an early pic of Kangaroo Point you will notice that a steep bank of green goes all the way to the water.

Still, they do make great scenery today and we can still pass them off as natural...

^ Interesting!! I didn't know that.

Nice pics JayT. That was certainly a decent walk you went on there!!

Hmm...didn't know that, interesting fact. But still is pretty cool.

holy crap jayt. did u lose 10kg in the process of that walk. haha. nice work. ive got 65 shots of new farm and the vally for an assignment but it would take me 10 days to upload all those so im thinkin of adding a couple of the good ones soon to the valley thread and maybe even this one!

holy crap jayt. did u lose 10kg in the process of that walk. haha. nice work. ive got 65 shots of new farm and the vally for an assignment but it would take me 10 days to upload all those so im thinkin of adding a couple of the good ones soon to the valley thread and maybe even this one!

You can use my photos for your assignment if you like, just quote me;)

PM me if you need my name.

^ cheers mate :okay:

Some more West End photos taken yesterday to add to the stock

West End's Davies Park near the Rowling Club
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West End Stockland's Koko building site
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Riverside homes facing West End's Orleigh Park
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A church
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My favorite Green Grocer- lots of organic goodies
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Coffee Shop at the junction of Melbourne and Mollison
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West End Center - with arguably the best Coles Supermarket in town
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A new boutique apartment project right next to West End Center, called something like Maison on Mollison
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Sitar Indian Restaurant opposite the West End Center
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West End Central Apartment Hotel and the commercial area
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Greenwich on Cordelia - a newly finished apartment project
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Another newly finished apartment - dunno the name
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The Mazda Project site
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the Southbank train station - what's the project behind?
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Nice pictures. In Melbourne, it has rained more than 20 times today. It has been sunny almost as many times. And it is FREEZING cold! Nice to thaw out with a tour of Brisbane :)

I really like this building, with its amusing columns! hehe
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And this is amusing. We could do with this in some parts of Melbourne for the ravens!!
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Cheers! :cheers2:

The project with the cranes is Saville.

Nice pictures. In Melbourne, it has rained more than 20 times today. It has been sunny almost as many times. And it is FREEZING cold! Nice to thaw out with a tour of Brisbane :)

I really like this building, with its amusing columns! hehe
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Cheers! :cheers2:

This building was very controversially received, challenging a lot of the more alternative local residents. I remember that there was even graffitti sprayed around the suburb which questioned the abilities of the architect. But it wasnt worded so nicely as I have written it. One of the brief moments when the brisbane public has really voiced opinion on architecture. Its become somewhat of a local landmark now. A landmark either loathed, liked or loved.

I can tell everyone though that there is a malaysian restaurant there called 'Makan House' that makes a great Nasi Lemak.

This building is cool, controversy is a good thing as far as a landmark is concerned, at least people remember it! The worst thing about a landmark is people can't even recall what it is like.

I like the makan house too, their rice dishes seem to be better than the noodle dishes.