30 June 2021 Right there on #ToorakRoad, there’s Langi Flats, a bit of Chicago 1900s #PrairieSchool, as interpreted by #WalterBurleyGriffin and #MarionMahonyGriffin in 1925-6. It was a rebuild of a 1915 house in front, and new build behind- that bit has plainer walls but more exciting geometric patterned gates and panels below the windows. The … Continue reading Langi Flats, Toorak →

29 June 2021 - repost this day 4 years ago, where now there’s a work site and big hole : South African Soldiers Memorial (ie #BoerWar), #DomaineInterchange, 1924, #IrwinandStevenson. Thought id document the things that are about to be dismantled or in the case of the trees chopped down to allow excavation for the Domain … Continue reading Boer War Memorial and Anzac Station →

Repost this day 2018: 🙀 #ClarenceHouse, 1898, of which most was left intact, BUT, thanks to a 2006 #VCAT decision ‘#onbalance weighing up #developmentrights and #heritagelisting’ they thought this was a good compromise. dammit. Through the 80s and 90s it had been a nightclub known as #TheMansion and surprisingly it’s got a Wikipedia entry outlining … Continue reading The Mansion, once →

I quite like the base of #Australia108, it’s quite surreal, all mirrored balconies supporting a lot of plants, a pretty good screen for the #carpark. And keeps your eye at ground level rather than making you crave your neck looking up at the 100 floors of shiny glass. The thinness of the preserved facade isn’t … Continue reading Australia 108 →

Repost this day 2019: Eek just imagine ! From the #VictorianRailways newsletter April 1969. The plan was for tower blocks like the #GasAndFuelTowers to be built over all the Jolimont railyards and replacing #FlindersStreetStation ! The railways had control of the air space and didn’t need planning permission. But it was expensive to do, and … Continue reading Demolish Flinders Street for this ? →

27 June 2021, updated 2025 The third important #Moderne house in the Toorak area is #Carlaminda, cnr Toorak and Lansell; looks like a block of flats but actually a big house taking up most of the block. Built in 1938, the architects were #RhysHopkins and Shannon. Repost 2021: Carlaminda, cnr Toorak Road and Lansell; looks … Continue reading Carlaminda, Moderne mansion in Toorak →

Repost this day 2017: OK I get it now, it's in #PortMelbourne, it's called #Aqueous, so they must be #bubbles. Like in the surf. But the bathrooms only have showers. Harchitecture. #RotheLowman. Update 2021: the gap on the left was that hold out old mans house. The exterior curves don’t show inside much, though most … Continue reading Bubbly in Port Melbourne →

Repost this day 2016: A glaring example of facadism, where only the front wall and short bit of side wall was retained, and then the dominated by the black box of the carpark levels - this got a permit way back in 2010 from Justin Madden, though a second design delayed starting and it is … Continue reading Facadism no 1. →

25 June 2021 I posted about the threat to this great little place in #AlbertParkVillage two years ago; it’s a cute doctors surgery and flats built in 1934 around an 1895 house (B&W pic). In the 90s to 2016 film director Paul Cox lived and worked here. It was proposed to be replaced by a … Continue reading Drs Surgery Albert Park. →

23 May 2025 The delightful MacRoberston Fountain behind the Shrine was unveiled in 1934. It was designed by Phillip Hudson, one of the architects of the Shrine, using the sane granite, and very neoclassical too, but also a bit Art Deco. The sculptures are by Paul Montford who also worked on the Shrine, here providing … Continue reading MacRobertson Fountain 1934 →