February 2017:
#ACABuilding, 1936, designed by the Sydney architects Hennessy and Hennessy, best known for a series of matching Gothicish office blocks for #CML dotted around Australia. Like this one, they’re all built in #BenedictStone, a precast pressed cement product incorporating crushed Brisbane Tuff, a business owned by the Catholic Church, as was this building – ACA stands for Australian Catholic Assurance, an insurance company. Loads of great details, from the fins on top, to the shopfront metalwork, even the escape stair is good. 
Thought this lift was original but later discovered not (and now changed anyway).
February 2019
Just discovered that the #ACAbuilding in Queen Street has a twin in on Sydney ! On Market Street. How did I not know that? Though not exactly a twin. Ours was finished late 1936, the Sydney one earlier that year, both by Sydney architects #HennessyAndHennessy, both pink, vertical, most details the same, but ours more vertical in the end cos narrower (I think – raking light helps) and not on a corner. The lobbies similar, but not as much as the facade. Where did they get that deep black marble ?
February 2019
Found a drawing of the #ACAbuilding from 1936; almost matches the photo i took a few years ago, with a bit of #perspectivecorrect.
October 2020
Great old sign revealed on the side of the 1936 #AustralianCatholicAssurance building on queen street – with the unfortunate demolition of the 1965 #ScottishAmicable by #YunckenFreeman. The ACA was designed by Sydney architects #HennessyAndHennessy, and its one of the best bits of #ArtDeco in Melb I reckon, less well known than it should be because it’s not on Collins or Bourke, and you only see it from acute angles. I do like that it’s pink too. The photo shows how it steps bank at the rear to allow more light into the laneway at the back. First photo Peter Barrett via Facebook. Last 2 pics Wade McDonald sent via instagram. Update 2025 : the new office tower on the site is most of the way up now, so the sign has gone back into hiding.
Storey of Melbourne 