Repost from this day in 2017: Grand #neoclassical #terracepair #PrincesStreetStKilda. Found a ref to 1865, could be earlier. Rather clumsily turned into four flats maybe 1920s; what might have been #castiron balustrade made solid, infilled ends, but the fence and all the #ioniccolumns perfectly intact. Possibly still one owner, no sales, just rental ads. Ones … Continue reading Neoclassical terraces St Kilda →

Repost 2 years ago - and looking at it again, what’s with the big grey and pink squares ? Prefer refined simplicity, or all out colourful mosaic : The new #SouthMelbournePrimarySchool on the edge of Southbank is huge ! Designed by @hayball_arch with @tractconsultants landscape, it’s our first #verticalschool, five storeys, and no fence or … Continue reading High rise primary school →

Repost this day 2018: The simply wonderful 1972 #VenetoClub in Bulleen by Italian/Slovenian Australian architect #ErminSmrekar, whose work was quite outside the mainstream of Australian architecture in the 70s and early 80s. From the beginnings in the late 60s he showed a love of geometry like the quarter circle elements seen here, as a well … Continue reading Concrete club in Bulleen; another Smrekar triumph →

Repost this day 2019: This lovely house is down a culdesac called Gordon Grove off Punt Road near the river - turns out it’s the original house in the area ! Probably had everything from Domain Road to the river and Punt Rd to the rail line. Called Avoca, first part built 1848. And the … Continue reading Avoca, South Yarra →

Repost this day 2018: #MelbourneSouthbank really is a glassy canyon sort of place, divided up by roads with loads of traffic, not much happening at ground level; but it doesn’t feel horrible, traffic lights stop the cars a lot, and the streets are at all angles and relatively short with river or low rise beyond, … Continue reading Southbank glass canyon →

Repost this day 2019: There’s this huge mural at the Eliz St end of #MelbourneCentralStation that I’ve never really stopped to look at, and it’s rather good actually, closeup, though half is blocked off for works and some more permanent looking walls. It was “Conceived in 1983 and completed in 1984….produced by a small team … Continue reading Geoff Hogg Union Mural, Melbourne Central →

9 June 2021 The entrance portal of the #HaroldHoltPool, a bit like going into a mouth - but it was all about the movement into and through - so up the ramp, along the building, into the aliens head, out onto the upper level inside where you could see the pool below, then into the … Continue reading Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool →

Repost this day 2019: One of the lesser known, because it doesn’t face the street, but really one of the grandest of the many #VictorianMansion in #Melbourne; by grand I mean the most classical columns (actually I think most of these mansions are a similar size inside). It’s in #NorthRoadBrighton, its called #Kamesburgh, designed by … Continue reading Kamesburgh, Brighton, 1874 →

8 June 2021 (photos 2025) Marli Place on the #UpperEsplanade is typically #StKilda with various changes over the years. Started off as three terraces in c1854, perhaps without the verandahs. In c1862 the bay window parts were added to the end terraces, and the separate end houses with little pedimented entries were also added. Then … Continue reading Marli Place, St Kilda →

Repost this day in 2017: Pore ole #QueenVictoriaHospital; in my early days at the @nationaltrustvic we had to watch this great Edwardian hospital get demolished bit by bit, until there was only one small bit left, which then got surrounded and dominated by underwhelming stuff. It was originally the Melbourne Hospital (later Royal), began in … Continue reading Queen Victoria Hospital, what’s left of it. →