Author: Rohan Storey
Original post 10 July 2020 Photos 7 July The old #PortMelbournePostOffice was built in 1862, and apparently designed by the famous #JJClark ! It has an almost twin in Kilmore, but in bluestone, and less altered - but I do like the pale brickwork here, pretty rare for this early date (perhaps imitating London brick?) … Continue reading Port Melbourne Post Office (1862), Drill Hall (1911), and Court House (1860)
Original post 8 July 2020 This grand building for the ‘Australian Church’ once stood on #FlindersStreet near Spring though - the 1887 sketch is all I knew of it, and I wondered if it had ever been built. Then @heraldsunphoto_retro popped up with a great photo from c1900, showing it next to Griffiths Teas, and … Continue reading The Australian Church, Flinders Street, 1887-1920s
Original post 9 July 2020 The #PortMelbourne #FreemasonsHall in #liardetstreet is great, a bit #ViennaSecession, or maybe just jaunty Edwardian. It’s 1917 obvs, but that’s all I know. Update : there's a foundation stone behind that tree, the honorary architects were CEMerrett and supervising architect Frederick J Brearley, both of course were members and both … Continue reading Port Melbourne Freemasons Hall, 1917
Original post 8 July 2020 This is Newspaper House, built in 1932-33 for the Herald as their city office, as it is, and as it might have been - just learned there was a competition, with 8 entries published, mostly quite conservative but mostly Art Deco more or less, showing how it had taken hold … Continue reading Newspaper House, Collins Street, competition 1932.
Original post 7 July 2020 The #victorianpridecentre is nearly topped out- looking very tubular ! And big. And the back is pretty interesting too!
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.
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
