10 August 2024 The slightly famous and quite delightful ‘Green House’ in Burnley Street Richmond, which is a perfectly preserved time capsule of (probably) post-war migrant upgrading of an old house, at a time when the English speaking community thought they were just too old and dingy to bother with. (Update : I was wrong, … Continue reading Green House, Burnley Street Richmond →

11 August 2019: A rather luxe 1960s #blockofflats at 247 #GlenEiraRoad, #Elsternwick; its got huge windows and strips of marble and fancy #wroughtiron balustrades, and semi-hidden parking - only four spots and four letterboxes - only 4 flats. I think they’re all 3 beds, quite spacious. The lounges face north over the house next door, … Continue reading Spacious 60s flats, Elsternwick →

9 August 2018: A #VictorianMansion that’s so big and severe it looks like a public building ! Which it has been most of its life. Built 1890, called Blackhall, no other info. Better known as a #SalvationArmy home for girls from 1915 to 1978, then it became a campus for #Preshil, Melbourne’s main alternative school, … Continue reading Mansion / school, Kew →

5 August 2018: Amongst all the Federation villas in Camberwell are a few 1880s mansions that once had huge grounds, and two of them almost match and were right next door to each other off Mont Albert Road ! Parlington (originally Veralum, pics 1,2,3) was built in 1888 for Mr Macintosh, and designed by #JamesGall … Continue reading Tower Envy →

4 August 2024 Striking 60s block in Eildon Road St Kilda, in a fetching shade of blue … which actually dates from around 2018. But I like it. Seems to be all modest 1 beds, except for the 4 bedroom penthouse with a rooftop entertaining room and deck behind the #breezeblock pats pet. Reputedly it … Continue reading Mid century flats with penthouse →

6 August 2024 The exotically named twin apartments called Mandalay on the Upper Esplanade, St Kilda. Built 1935, and @cityofportphillip heritage planner tells me the architect was busy flat builder/designer Bernard Evans. It was built in the front garden of a large 1882 house originally called Rathlin, then Mandalay from 1916. Facebook people have found/scanned … Continue reading Mandalay, Upper Esplanade →

5 August 2025 ‘Montgomery’, a rather stylish little block of 6 flats in Toorak Road West, check out that stripey brickwork ! Designed by Marsh & Michaelson and built 1939, the horizontal lines are rather Modern, but there’s also a rather cute wrought iron balconette and fence, and Art Deco leadlight in the door. Originally … Continue reading Deco flats Toorak Road West →

5 August 2020 A surprise in #ParkStreetSouthYarra - an amazing house pair liberally sprinkled with #ArtNouveau ornament. Rectilinear but richly floral, very Vienna Secession, also seen through Eastern Europe up to Riga Latvia. Built 1906, designed by #ArthurFisher who did a few other similar things, most notably the demolished Koonwarra in St Kilda Road, 1913. … Continue reading Art Nouveau in Park Street →

4 August 2024 Beaut flats in Inkerman Street Bakaclava, designed by Michael Feldhagen, and built in 1962. It’s got 3 different types of concrete blocks, square breeze blocks, patterned ones on the end walls, and long rough faced bricks, some painted now (or possibly always were), as well as jaunty angled wing walls upstairs holding … Continue reading Concrete blocked flats →

3 August 2015: Amongst the #urbanmess of Russell Street, a rather nice #queenanne commercial building with a densely packed but wonderfully rhythmical #parapet level. Surprisingly not much info other than its c1900, but I rekon c1890 (2024 update - it is 1890 😊, architect EJ Henderson). Built by financier and MP (Sir) Edward Miller, and … Continue reading Millers Building, 1890 →