Original post 13 September 2017 updated :

A rather fun bit of postmodernism in Hotham Street East Melbourne. Dating from c1983, it was (and possibly still is) the home of Daryl Jackson, who did some notable Brutalist things in the 70s (such as the MLC library in Kew), then went on to sometimes delightful Pomo in the 80s. This is a transformation of a pair of terraces that were given a bald brick front in the 60s, by rendering and adding classical details and an interpretation of a cast iron verandah. I rather like it. I’m told it was originally salmon pink, with sage green ironwork. Sketches of the layers from ‘Daryl Jackson Architecture’, 1984, and photo of it from the 70s from the East Melbourne Historical Society.

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