26 August 2020, updated 2024, only pic 1 is mine: Nice half hidden early 20s house-style flats corner of Robe and Acland - it looks like a house because it’s actually a transformation of a Victorian home, adding a floor, turning it into three spacious flats - a spacious 2bed and a 1bed downstairs and … Continue reading Acland Street old lady house →

27 August 2024, photos 2013: Charles Street #Carlton, off Kay Street. A little dead end mid block street, all modest Victorian houses, mostly brick, some timber #victorian #terraces and #bluestone pitched street - hasnt changed much for over a century ! Update 2024: a rare type of street for Carlton, but there used to be … Continue reading Bluestone street, Carlton →

26 August 2024 What a massive sheer cliff of a building ! This is the giant Craig Williamson’s department store that once stood at the bottom of Flinders Street as it was during the Queens visit in 1954 (pic National Trust). It was demolished in 1968, and I’ve just worked out its history; I thought … Continue reading Craig Williamson’s →

25 August 2024 Fabulous curvalicious late late streamlined Art Deco house at 6A Dickens Street, Elwood. It was built in 1954 for Mr & Mrs Rubenstein, who were apparently quite active in the local Jewish community. The architect was Leslie J Reed, who had designed in all the revival styles and Deco before WW2, and … Continue reading Curvy late Deco in Elwood →

24 August 2024 The Paula Fox Melanoma and Cancer Centre on St Kilda Road is pretty striking, all curves where all around it are square. Opening in April this year, it was designed by @lyonsarchitecture, another version of their restless, dynamic forms and facades. This one is wiggly at the front, top and bottom, with … Continue reading Cancer Centre, St Kilda Road →

24 August 2014: Nicely proportioned #facade on #elizabethstreet opposite GPO normally hidden by #trees. Sort of #neoclassical look, apparently because its a c1910 refurb of an 1850s #goldrush era building. Unusual. The original bluestone rear is mostly intact.

23 August 2024 I posted this on Insta in 2018, when I ranted about how terrible it was that McDonalds had been allowed to paint the lower level black in 2017, and just now looking for 19thC photos I found one from 1875 showing that the lower level was in fact dark! Though it certainly … Continue reading Old pub/bank Russell Street →

28 August 2024 My fantasy south east tram network. I first did this in 2017, but with the very expensive idea of the suburban train loop since then, Ive added a line from Southland to Box Hill. The idea is that its mostly elevated, so it avoids traffic, and only stops at major roads. The … Continue reading South east elevated tram network →

18 August 2024 There’s this giant mansion in Elwood that’s oddly side on to the street with hardly any front garden - which is because it’s once large site was all subdivided around it. Called Thalassa and built in 1889, it’s at the end of Byrne Street and Tiuna Grove, and once would have had … Continue reading Hidden mansion Elwood →

19 August 2024 Very surprised to be taken into the carpark for Aldi in South Melbourne, and it’s all huge old factory metal truss roofs ! Three of them (pics 1,2,3). The building is graded as Significant within a little industrial precinct but I can’t find anything more. Update : thanks to @elledee14 I looked … Continue reading Intact factory, South Melbourne →