ONCE FULL OF WAREHOUSES, FORTITUDE VALLEY AND NEWSTEAD NOW FORM THE TEEMING HUB OF AN EMERGING CREATIVE SCENE

摘要

The past five years have seen the Australian city of Brisbane emerge from the shadows of Sydney and Melbourne to develop its own design culture, fueled by the laid-back lifestyle that comes with subtropical living-and the freedom of being a young city with no reputation to live up to. This burgeoning creative scene takes its home in an area of two adjacent inner-city neighborhoods: Fortitude Valley and Newstead. Formerly an untoward, industrial area, this pair of neighborhoods still retains many warehouses, which are now home to several studios, as well as the designers themselves, who flock to the converted loft apartments.