4 August 2024
Beaut flats in Inkerman Street Bakaclava, designed by Michael Feldhagen, and built in 1962. It’s got 3 different types of concrete blocks, square breeze blocks, patterned ones on the end walls, and long rough faced bricks, some painted now (or possibly always were), as well as jaunty angled wing walls upstairs holding up the partly projecting balconies (and angled walls inside too!). As a recent heritage review notes, all that adds up to pretty unusual all round. There’s 6 flats, with the middle ones being wider, and only the downstairs one of them has a car space, and there’s a narrow garden bed along the front, now filled with lush planting. Feldhagen was one of the many post war Jewish emigre architects in Melbourne, arriving from Berlin in 1958. I think they’ve been heritage listed since 1992, or at least 1998, and it’s now proposed to be listed with two other similar blocks nearby by Feldhagen all from the 1960s; that’s part of a review from 2022, though I can’t work out what stage that’s at, not completely approved yet though.
Storey of Melbourne 