| Abstract/Description |
The City of Darebin desired a civic square with an aboriginal theme, adjacent to the old Northcote Town Hall and Library. In response the designers, Rushwright Associates, responded with a design that was inspired by the shapes, forms and imagery of local indigenous tradition and artefact. Rucker’s Hill on which the Civic Square is located, was an old Aboriginal corroboree (Aboriginal cultural ceremony) place, however, the square is also bounded by the European neoclassical architecture of the Northcote Town Hall and Carnegie Library. The Square harmonises the traditional cultural orders of the Victorian Aboriginal community and a contemporary society with an inherited colonial history. |
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