Author: Rohan Storey
Original post 4 July Photos 18 June 2020 The new #SouthMelbourneBeach pavilion by @jcbarchitects is very minimalist, a simple very low profile and grey render (precast?), quite nice but I’d have liked a bit of something? Bright colours inside. Great that there’s a fair amount of under cover space on the beach, where there isn’t … Continue reading South Melbourne surf club pavilion
Original post 2 July 2020 The Frankston Methodist Church in 1970 is another exercise in minimalism by #BatesSmartMcCutcheon, but with rough faced concrete blocks, rather boldly monumental- but maybe in real life it’s not so impressive? It’s on High Street, a few doors up from the Uniting Church, and used by the Brotherhood for youth … Continue reading Fmr Methodist Church, Frankston, 1970
Original post 3 July 2020 The #CataniClocktower on the #UpperEsplanade, one of largest memorials to anyone in Victoria, and definitely for an engineer! Catani was Italian, and studied in Florence, before coming out here in 1876, got a job at the Lands Department, and by the 1890s was responsible for big projects like draining the … Continue reading Catani Clocktower, 1932
Original post 1 July 2020 The Fourth Victoria Building (society) in #collinsstreet is a rebuild of an 1880s building by architect #RobertHaddon in #1912 adding two floors, and a new plain facade, which #RobinBoyd described as a ‘fairly wheezy’ first breath of functionalism in Melbourne, but really it’s a fairly direct influence of the #ViennaSecession, … Continue reading Fourth Victoria Building, Collins Street
Original post 8 October 2019 Spotted out the windows of #MyerMelbourne Menswear on the 4the floor - the giant clock, placed there with the Bourke Street frontage, completed 1934. So, like the building, I presume it was designed by #TompkinsAndTompkins. Very #ArtDeco.
Original post 29 June 2020 Great shot from @heraldsunphoto_retro of the Prudential Building, cnr Bourke & Queen only just demolished late last year; you can see the other 3 corners of this intersection are vacant, ready for the mid rise office buildings all constructed in 1960-63, three of them, like this one, by #BatesSmartMcCutcheon, this … Continue reading Prudential, Bourke Street, 1960.
Original post 29 June 2020 #TolarnoHotel in #StKilda is actually a fine example of #midcenturymodern, but even though the place is on the #VictorianHeritageRegister, exactly when it was built and who designed it isn’t recorded by them; it’s a totally an addition to the front of a guest house, itself converted from an 1884 house … Continue reading Tolarno Hotel, St Kilda
Original post 28 June 2020 The #DisplayBlock in #LittleCollinsStreet was an unusual response to the highly central site - it was built in 1921 as vertical shops, with only display cases on the ground level, advertising the 20 business upstairs (by ‘rapid lift’), all devoted to women’s wear, milliners, lingerie, dressmakers etc. Some of it … Continue reading Display Block, 1921
Original post 27 June 2020 Did you know there was an earlier design for #FlindersStreetStation ? I did but I’d forgotten what it looked like - so here it is from the Illustrated Australian News on 16 May 1883. It won a design competition, and clearly the idea was to have east and west trains … Continue reading Flinders Street Station, the forgotten 1883 competition
June 2020 The octagonal domed space where the #BlockArcade makes it’s right angle is one of the loveliest Victorian spaces in Melbourne, and hard to photograph (my #MomentLens wide angle phone attach only just gets it). I found a great photo showing it, with ‘The Redfern House’ ladies tailor, and the tearoom of the Ladies … Continue reading The beautiful Block Arcade
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
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