Comments on Your Brisbane: Past and Present: Cloudland

What a shame to lost such a wonderful and inspirat...

2010-10-19T21:33:22.019+10:00

What a shame to lost such a wonderful and inspirational design. There are many other modernist buildings that are at risk of being lost today and buildings like them need to be protected, as heritage doesn't just mean 19th century architecture and social history.

My friends and I 'grew up' at the one-and-...

2009-11-09T09:16:57.549+10:00

My friends and I 'grew up' at the one-and-only Cloudland... 1978-1982/3 or thereabouts.
Student nurses living in-residence at the nearby Royal Brisbane Hospital, we saw every live band who performed there... in particular I remember Split Enz in their earliest days, all made up; Cold Chisel when Jimmy Barnes was young and wild and crazy; the Angels... the sprung dance-floor was quite an experience with hundreds of us dancing en masse!
Socio-politically, those were unfortunate times with all that political corruption, and trashy glitzy, greedy 'progress'.

Your timing is perfect. I was discussing the vanda...

2009-11-06T13:01:15.977+10:00

Your timing is perfect. I was discussing the vandalism involved in destroying the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago this month. The article was called Gropius' Chicago Legacy Lost because it wasn't just the beauty of the architecture; rather its part in architectural history was critically important.

In the response to American readers who were incensed by American vandalism, I wrote about the destruction of Cloudland in Brisbane. See http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2009/10/walter-gropius-legacy-destroyed.html