It’s 6 years old now, and still looks crazy/amazing - and a bit more on display with the demolition on the site next door - where there will be a new tower obscuring it somewhat unfortunately. #IconStKilda, @jcbarchitects, 2015 Last time I posted this, there was a lot of #dislike ! The marketing that came … Continue reading Love it or hate it it’s an Icon. →

Repost from this day in 2017: #BHPResearchLaboratories, Mulgrave, #EgglestonMacDonaldandSecomb, 1969. As architectural historian Philip Goad says "steel structure, inset glass walls, thats it". Minimalist but carefully detailed; big #IBeams form the edges to the floor plates, with vertical I-Beams bearing the weight (externally at least). The steel was originally #coreten, so with the dark tinted … Continue reading BHP Research Labs, Mulgrave →

Repost from April 2018: #GardenAvenueEastMelbourne, a cul de sac of 5 blocks of flats all built c1940, all by #IGAnderson. What a talent ! Oh, and two blocks that face George Sreet behind too. First, #TuffnellLodge, c1940. Anderson at his most creative, verticals and horizontals collide and thrust forward towards the main road, love it. … Continue reading IG Anderson did a whole street – Garden Avenue, East Melbourne →

Some #brutalistrevival in #Elwood - a development by Piccolo, designed by Hecker Guthrie and #WoodsBagot (did HG do the interiors ?). The conc makes a great canopy. The overall style is quite nice, 60s revival bricks, modernist lines, and proper hanging greenery too - can anyone tell me what it is exactly? Can’t show you … Continue reading ‘Elwood House’, 2018 →

Interesting block of flats on the edge of the Elwood shops in Ormond Road, I could tell it was 50s or maybe late 40s, like prewar but with jaunty 50s things like the porch and stair railings. The agents sales blurb actually says ‘by noted architect #SirBernardEvans’ who did many flats from the 1930s into … Continue reading Melton Court, Elwood, 1951 →

Repost from this day in 2019: Even Richmond has some #VictorianMansions, on the hill closest to the city of course - this one is called Elim “formerly called #Yooralbyn, built in 1889 for William Harper, a partner in a leading Melbourne merchant and manufacturing firm.” Then it was maybe a boarding house, I think the … Continue reading A mansion in Richmond, Elim on Erin Street, 1889 →

April 2021 Reading through my (photo) copy of Picture Palaces And Flea Pits (1983) I remembered that when I was growing up in East Camberwell in the early 70s we had 2 local cinemas ! The Broadway, originally Ours, was virtually at the end of my street (also called Broadway). I only remember going once, … Continue reading Broadway Theatre, but not NY. →

18 April 2021 14-16 Isabella Grove, Hawthorn, which I posted this day in 2019 when the ‘Victorian’ stair was up for sale due to big renovations by a new owner - but it seems the stair was/is 1990s (unless from some other Victorian house), because even though it was billed as an original house in … Continue reading Completely new old in Hawthorn →

25 March 2023 The new enlarged Melbourne Holocaust Museum in Selwyn Street Elsternwick looks finished, but it’s not open yet. Designed by Kerstin Thompson, I was surprised by the scale and flatness (and the sun was behind it), but being varied shades of white with some bricks in glass through which the sun was shining … Continue reading Jewish Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick →

I rather like the war/torn look of this one, at the Spencer Street end of #LittleBourkeStreet. Built in 1952, I think by the @cityofmelbourne as a store, which it still is - that’s where their heritage collection including things like old mayoral robes, Moomba things, paintings, maybe important documents too ? Photo from 2018, when … Continue reading Patchy in Little Bourke →