9 July 2016 A most excellent example of #polychromebrick in Webb Street Fitzroy. Probably 1880s. Update 2024: It was tiny! And rather heavily done over c1980, sandblasting the bricks and opening up the interior, judging from sale pics from 2012, and since then done again with a big rear extension. It’s part of a row … Continue reading Polychrome brick beauties, Fitzroy →

8 July 2024 Very cute but curious old shop/house on the east side of St Kilda Road, near Alma Road, showing the angle of the lots to the street. It looks like a house with an added shop, but it was built 1867, and you can see it in a photo of the street in … Continue reading Old shop survivor, St Kilda Road →

7 July 2024 Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank, photos from 2021. Opened in 2009, it was designed by @armarchitecture - the idea is it’s like a precious package, half opened still in its bubble wrap/polystyrene, and the bluestone side is the box it came in. Crazy and a bit literal, but I like it ! Especially … Continue reading Melbourne Recital Centre →

7 July 2014 I pass this place every other day on the way to the supermarket, cnr Fitzroy & Argyle Streets, Fitzroy. It’s going to be redeveloped, fortunately not by #facadism ! Left more or less as is, with an extension to one side for aus vollees intnl. Anyway theres a heritage report so I … Continue reading Brick factory, Fitzroy →

6 July 2024 This rather mad thing once stood at 480 Flinders Street; it was a renovation of an old pub in 1915 to create a home for the wharfie’s union, and one of the very few things known to have designed by Robert Haddon (though as a ‘design consultant’ he had a hand in … Continue reading Wharf Labourers Building →

6 July 2018: Dunno if this is a #HolgarandHolgar but it sure looks like one ! 26 Summit Drive, Bulleen, I’m guessing c1970.

5 July 2024 This stylish but curious thing on Little Collins (once George’s Hostess Store) has a long and interesting history. It was first built in 1891 as a Cyclorama, a huge circular building that housed an illusionistic 360* painting, with a central viewing platform creating the illusion of being somewhere else - the first … Continue reading Moorish style in Little Collins →

4 July 2024 There’s this big old motel thing on Fitzroy Street St Kilda, perhaps 1960s, not much to look at, and about to be replaced by something also unremarkable - ok, maybe a bit better. But also bigger, with 5 levels and including the old nightclub, currently enlivened by some Council sponsored art by … Continue reading New developments in Fitzroy Street →

3 July 2024 A rather nice bit of Victorian polychrome brick in Blessington Street St Kilda - which anyone in St Kilda would probably recognise as Albert Tucker’s house. He lived there from 1980 till his death in 1999, and so painted his late works in the studio out back, still there. It’s rather a … Continue reading Albert Tucker House →

2 July 2024 MIMI in Eildon Road, St Kilda - looks like a house, but built as 4 flats, which I only realised seeing the 4 letterboxes; there an external stair on the far side. It was sold in 2015, with less concrete in the front yard, and some pretty nice interiors, which seem to … Continue reading 1920s flats, a bit ruined →