Original post 25 March 2020 #Shrublands in Canterbury is for sale ! I don’t normally post just real estate pics, but it’s interesting that sometimes an owner goes completely gaga and makes a place more elaborate than it was originally! Built 1863, with probably the first double storey columned loggia in Vic, designed by #JohnFlannagan … Continue reading Shrublands, Canterbury, no expense spared →

Original post 24 March 2020 Unusually richly elaborated #shoptops in #BridgeRoadRichmond, near Burnley St; same window kefir you detail with lady faces instead if keystones as another shop up on the hill, so same builder or architect. The row was originally red #facebrick but they’ve all been painted differently, the fate of nearly every shop … Continue reading More shop tops in Bridge Road Richmond →

Original post 24 March 2020 Here’s some architecture as #wallpaper, maybe an art project in the coming weeks ? It’s the Rocke Tompsitt & Co druggists #warehouse on #flindersstreet. Always loved the elaborated yet rectangular nature of the #facade, which is very #Victorian #renaissancerevival in style, but it’s 1908 - most likely because the architect … Continue reading Architectural Wallpaper in Flinders Street. →

Original post 21 March 2020 You might not recognise this but it’s still there ! #HolymanHouse, an unassuming but rare survivor from the 1850s on #FlindersStreet cnr Market Street, originally facing the first river port, hence the adjacent Customs House. Built 1858 for the huge wool exporters #GoldsboroughMort, designed by John Gill, who had been … Continue reading Holyman House, Flinders Street, 1858 →

Original post 13 October 2019, update 2024 I posted this in 2019 as ‘a lesser known #RobinBoyd’ at 1 #TheodoreCourt #Toorak, 1958. But a recent heritage review by @extentheritage states it was called Shere, and it’s by Roy Grounds, though they don’t say how they know - but they did find the sketch design at … Continue reading Lesser known Roy Grounds in Toorak →

Original post 13 October 2019 Finally seen the famous #AnatolKagan in #TheodoreCourt #Toorak, an out-there house from 1959 which has fortunately in recent years had two sympathetic owners, bd use it’s not #heritagelisted ☹️yet. What a great spot too, an Ernest Fooks apartment block next door, and a Boyd across the road ! Posted this … Continue reading Anatol Kagan, Toorak, 1959 – ruined →

Original post 22 March 2020 Can’t go past without a photo, i guess because it’s quite photogenic! The #ChemistryBuilding at #MelbourneUniversity, completed in 1938, and shows that my fave architect #PercyEverett could do any style, not just Moderne. This is called #CollegiateGothic, which means the kind of medieval/Tudor/Gothic that so many universities used in the … Continue reading Interwar Gothic at Melbourne Uni →

Original post 20 March 2020 Another one that doesn’t disappoint! The #Langwarrin-Pearcedale Anglican Church, built in 1963, and designed by #WystanWiddows and David Caldwell. So pointy, angular, an A Frame, but souped up ! Even the door and the windows continue the angular theme. It’s not big but dominates this dusty intersection, set at 45*. … Continue reading Fantastic FLW inspired church near Frankston, 1963 →

Original post 15 March 2020 Some #MelbourneFragments - these ladies once graced the exterior of the OTT #FederalCoffeePalace that once stood on the corner of Collins & King streets, one of those things that just seems unreal that it ever existed, and what’s more it was here ! Built in 1888 it had 500 rooms, … Continue reading All that’s left of the Federal Hotel; three of the four seasons. →

Original post 18th March 2020 I’m pretty sure this was originally in the Bourke St undercroft of the #StateBankCentre Galleria, where it made more sense, stopping just short of the waffle slab roof (forgot to check artist and date). Still pretty dramatic. The #McClellandSculpturePark is home to lots of #publicart that new building owners didn’t … Continue reading 3 relocated sculptures at McClelland →