August 2026 I like this one ! In Sydney Street Prahran facing Orrong Park. It’s a relatively simple organic idea of flowing thin edge floor plates held apart by rounded topped columns, with just glass between, but very well done. Completed in 2022 it shows the architects Wood Marsh still being creative into their mature … Continue reading Curvy in Armadale →

August 2026 Groovy 50s house on Eildon Road St Kilda. Big rounded picture windows, thin concrete edging round the windows and on top of the parapet, varied brickwork, separate room over the pink garage, cute. Fills most of the block, so the windows are close to street, hence the dense foliage. Dont know many facts … Continue reading Groovy 40s house →

August 2026 Saw this on Facebook and it said it was the Hoadleys Factory built in 1913 in St Kilda Road, but I’d never seen it before, where was it exactly …. turns out it burned down only 6 years later, so there’s only this one photo of it. It was a very cheery design … Continue reading St Kilda Road factory →

August 2026 A great little Moderne house at 9 Lefevre Sandringham sadly demolished maybe 30 years ago. It was built in 1939 as the family home of J Esmond Dorney, who had been doing loads of flats around Sth Melb - Elwood - Brighton, most in a sort of Prairie style, others in his personal … Continue reading Esmond Dorney house →

August 2026 This grand mansion in Power Street Hawthorn looks like maybe an advanced Queens Anne design from 1890 - but no it was built 10 years later. Originally called Boonoke, it was built for Riverina pastoralist John Patterson, on a very large site, and the architects were Oakden & Ballantyne. Percy Oakden did some … Continue reading Rossbourne House, Hawthorn →

August 2017: South Melbourne Primary School, later known as Dorcas Street, built 1880 for 1000 pupils (!), designed by #CharlesWebb in his often used brown and cream #polychromebrick, this time in a strongly #TudorRevival style. One of the few schools with original windows, because they were tall square headed ones, rather than narrow Gothic ones. … Continue reading Tudor school →

Repost 2016, new photos, better on a sunny day, but anyway : I was afraid the #MelbourneSchoolofDesign building would dominate the retained #BankofNSWfacade, but the trees screen the new building (#johnwardle 2014), and the setback on top is just enough. Could’ve done without the sign though. The facade was originally built on #CollinsStreet in 1859, … Continue reading Bank facade, relocated →

August 2026 At the Melbourne Uni School of Design there’s an exhibition on the work of Italian - born architect Enrico Taglietti, and it’s great ! Loads of drawings and photographs. You might know the St Kilda Library, built in the early 1970s, his only work in Victoria. He mainly worked in Canberra, of all … Continue reading Enrico Taglietti →

August 2026 This somewhat compromised interior is the main hall of the house in Robe Street St Kilda that the Alliance Francaise occupied from 1986-2007. I’d always wondered what happened to it, and turns out it was divided up into flats and a large new block built out the back. The interiors there are particularly … Continue reading Big bungalow St Kilda →

August 2026 The Rand, on Marine Parade in St Kilda, relatively early flats built 1917, and designed by Tompkins & Tompkins - they also did the Canterbury over near the ex St Kilda Station (last pic) in 1914, which also has a circular turret, which makes for a great view spot or dining table. This … Continue reading Turret on parade →