30 May 2024
An uncomfortable juxtaposition on Fitzroy Street St Kilda. But actually if you step back you can see they carved a gap out of the huge apartment block built next door (2000s?), so the flats wouldn’t look too much at blank walls. Not exactly elegant though. It’s a blank wall at the other end, but only 3 floors. The flats are called Lynbrae, built 1938, great Art Deco lines, with a garden setback and rounded corner windows, and the ones facing the gap are bedrooms, so not too bad. It was built in a rather squeezy way itself, with two narrow blocks, the flats behind the front ones looking straight at each other. Advertised at the time as bachelor flats; that front bedroom is tiny !
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