Author: Rohan Storey
October 2018 Repost 2018: Check out what’s inside ! Hidden behind 60s flats at 40 Alma Road, St Kilda, there’s this mansion. Called Rhianva, later Shirley, built 1868 for David Rosenthal, jewellery merchant, part of the early concentration of well-off Jewish peeps in St Kilda starting in the 1850s. The architects were Crouch & Wilson, … Continue reading Hidden St Kilda mansion
This article appeared in Spirit of Progress, Journal of the Art Deco and Modernism Society of Australia, Autumn 2016 As an architecture student in the 1980s, we were taught that the first fully bona-fide Art Deco building in Melbourne was the delightful Yule House designed b Oakley & Parkes, in Little Collins Street. Five storeys … Continue reading When Art Deco arrived in Victoria
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
Storey of Melbourne 