Original post 4 May 2020
The flats called #Banff in #FitzroyStreetStKilda, very interesting #creambrick, almost #Bauhaus lines (side wall more decorative). Built 1940, architects S & MC Nelson, who I’ve never heard of. It was all painted off white for maybe decades, but the smart body corporate stripped it all off about 15 years ago and it still looks great. More recently they’ve added the glass balustrades, new standards I suppose. The front flats very spacious, great views, the ones behind, not so much, but access via the lush garden is nice. And in a real innovation for 1940 it includes built in car parking ! Only pre WW2 example I know of. And it’s always had a Cafe as well. Photos 22 August 2019.
August 2024
The cafe website, and one on ww2 in Aust, says it and the cafe was used by/ for servicemen during the war, though seems more likely that the place just had a lot of servicemen, since across the street in there were big barrracks in Albert Park.
Storey of Melbourne 
This was built on the site of the St.Kilda Theatre which had a studio attached in which many films were made prior to the First War.
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