11 August 2025
Some flats on High Street Armadale that stood out in the winter sun – Koonoona, cnr Hampden Road, was built in 1933, and architect M Sherlock was quite eclectic.
There’s a more or less Art Deco arch, Georgian wrought iron, a classical portico, some Spanish barleycorn columns, and loads of textured clinker brick walls, fence and paving. The lobbies also have great random but square patterned tiles.
There’s 8 flats I think, with no 5 upstairs on the side having an excellent mostly original bathroom. Listed Significant by @stonningtoncitycouncil.
Storey of Melbourne 
It is a wonderful apartment block. In the 1980s I was passing by on a tram when a man ran out of the building, right in front of the tram and was killed. I felt so bad for the tram driver, and of course the victim.
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