5 April 2017: (#rant warning). The #StateLibraryVictoria looking splendid in the 3pm sun in early April - but not for long ! The #ScapeSwanston #studenthousing now going up diagonally opposite will be casting a shadow exactly where that tree shadow on the left is, up to and over the #portico. Swipe to see it at … Continue reading State Library in the shade →

1 December 2025 The new City Square, better than I was expecting! It’s smaller now, but has planting along both sides, with long benches facing the open area, much more like a small European square. A better feel than a large space only used sometimes for events. As I keep saying, that’s what Fed Sq … Continue reading New City Square /Town Hall station entrance →

Original post 4 April 2015: Great old stuff revealed on #brunswickstreet #shopfront renovation. Original #Bluestone #pilasters and #paintedsign - sadly the lower two thirds of bluestone actually scaped back. Original corner entrance reinstated. Having said all that its prob going to be some hipster joint or clothes shop, certainly not a # newsagent, which actually … Continue reading Revealed details, Brunswick Street →

Original post 3 April 2018: Postmodern reference, but rather literal - this new block of #StKildaFlats has an actual map of #StKilda on it; but not our place, instead it’s the Scottish islands from which the name comes (there is no actual saint, nobody knows how the westernmost #outerhebrides ended up with that name). I … Continue reading Contemporary flats St Kilda. →

Original post 2 April 2019: The former #FaradayStreetStateSchool was built in 1876 and has so many #damntrees in front you can hardly see it! Great #polychromebrick #GothicRevival design by #JosephReedArchitect, one of the many 1872 completion winners for schools when Victoria started free and compulsory education. This was the only one of this design built … Continue reading Faraday Street State School →

Original post 2 April 2016: A jaunt up to the #skyhighlookout #mountdandenong, to see the 1971 circular restaurant and viewing platforms by #JDaleFisher. I helped it get #heritagelisted in the 90s when #parksvictoria was aiming to let a developer in to replace it with some completely OTT touristy experience that no doubt would have been … Continue reading Mt Dandenong Skyline →

Original post 2 April 2021: Amazing 1960 house in Carlsberg Road Eaglemont is for sale - designed by builder brothers Ian, Max and Malcolm Delbridge for their parents Harold and Florence. It was their take on modernism, all thin pipe supports, thin concrete slabs and a lot of glass over three levels. It’s been glammed … Continue reading Mid Century marvellousness Eaglemont →

2 April 2023: Grosvenor Mansions, William Street, Balaclava, an early-ish example of the conversion of Victorian terraces into flats from 1919. Designed by architect/ developer Howard Lawson (who went on to develop Beverley Hills South Yarra in the 30s), the work ‘increased the rental return three-fold’. I just happened to be going passed these and … Continue reading Grosvenor Mansions Balaclava →

Original post 1 April 2018: The outstandingly OTT #minimansion, the #JosephLalorHouse #Church Street, Richmond, 1888, heavily modelled, nothing is flat, it's all engaged #columns, projecting #bracketed elements, columns in a variety of sizes. I call it #chunkyvictorian.The architect #williamgeorgewolf was born in NY, then trained in Germany (#grunderzeit anyone?), then came here in 1884 where … Continue reading Lalor House, Richmond →

Original post 31 March 2019: I had no idea this existed, a new #melbournelaneway through a new not bad not great #apartmentbuilding at 137 #BourkeStreet called The Metropolitan connecting through to #CoromandelPlace; there’s a dogleg but that’s ok, and it’s most under the building and gates close at night but still noice to see, great … Continue reading New city lane (sort of) →