Lunch in #Williamstown, so had to have a look at #PercyEverett’s addition to #WilliamstownHighSchool, and excellent as always, looking like a superior 1930s office block almost, but it’s actually 1948 – Percy seems to have ignored modernism almost completely (#RobinBoyd etc must have been shaking their heads in disbelief). But it’s very nice, well built too despite post-war restrictions, with a semi-circular bay over the entry, and long horizontal windows, on the front subdivided by vertical angled brick piers, on the side a curious shallow zig-zag ‘eyebrow’ (not much shading for this north-east side though); this block of 6 classrooms was added in front of the original 1867 building, which had been built as Williamstown Grammar, which moved out in 1914 when the High School was established. Percy put his block just to one side of the old main facade – bet he was thinking to do another symmetrical one eventually, but instead someone plonked one right in front, looks like 80s postmodern.

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