They Looked Like Steamers

On our walk around the city on the weekend we came to Brisbane Square. I smiled to see two tourists standing in the shade of the sign. They must be from a cold country because it really wasn't hot for us. It has cooled down to 27C/80F.

The building below houses City Council offices. It is a 5 star green building. It uses water from the river for its cooling system, it has rain water tanks and sterilises sewage, bringing down its water usage by 75%. It used recycled materials in the building  and saves power. It offers more bicycle parking and less car parking in an attempt to keep cars out of the city. It filters pollution from the air inside the offices. 

It towers into the sky but in the square itself there is an unusual sculpture, it comprises of 15 metal spheres scattered throughout the square. Can you see two above and three in the first photo?

Here are more

Tourists have photos taken with them.

Kids like to climb them.

Funny what you find behind them.

I thought that they looked like veggie steamers and blow me down they are! When I looked up info on them I found that there are 7000 steamers and 780 steel plates in the collection. It is called Steam Spheres by Donna Marcus and she made them in 2006. She is renowned for making sculptures using discarded aluminium kitchenware.

 To decide where to place them Donna made a scaled down version of the spheres and threw them across Brisbane Square, where they landed is where they were placed. (That's  random disbursement) 

The beautiful old building across the road is the Casino but it used to be the old Treasury Building.