The tower like Habitat Filter is freeway related being one of the exhaust
stacks for the Burnley Tunnel. It has been given a treatment appropriate
for the arts precinct.
Alex C
On Monday, May 9, 2022 at 2:46:34 PM UTC+9:30transit...@...
wrote:
> Mal, thanks for the location. Now on the corner of Grant and Dodds
> Street. Close to another odd 19th century sculpture - either the old
> Shot Tower from the Latrobe St site, or the water tower for providing
> high pressure water services to the hydraulic cranes in Victoria Docks?
> Nicely wrapped in a steel exo-skeleton!
>
> The Yellow Peril might be Heritage Listed, but someone has added a
> Graffito (Graffitus?) the meaning of which escapes me. On only one
> side, though, the others are virginal. (Visible via the wonders of the
> Google site you sent.
>
> Regards
>
> Dudley Horscroft
>
> On 9/05/2022 2:17 pm, Mal Rowe wrote:
> > On 09/05/2022 14:11, Yuri Sos wrote:
> >> Aaaah, Vault, disparagingly referred to as the "Yellow Peril". It
> >> started life in he City Square corner of Collins and Flinders Street
> >> and then was moved to Batman Park and now resides off Sturt Street
> >> South Melbourne at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
> >>
> > Here you go ...
> >
> >
> https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.8263301,144.9665582,3a,75y,43.26h,95.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdzZRkp6dANMjmDbzTTfaag!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
> >
> >
> > Just add a tram!
> >
> > Mal Rowe - noting that Vault is now heritage listed
> >
>