Category: artdeco
Original post 18 July 2020 Photos 20 June Great little #ArtDeco #shopfront in #littlecollinsstreet in the Royal Arcade building; don’t know date or designer. One of melbourne's most striking #artdeco #shopfront. So #modernist looks like might be new repro, but no its 30s. It's a shopfront inthe edwardian rebuild of the #littlecollinsstreet back end of … Continue reading Art Deco shopfront, Little Collins Street.
Original post 14 July 2020 This very stylish block on my street is called San Diego, but it’s quite obscured by some #damntrees. It’s clearly 1930s Art Deco, with a bit of Bauhaus influence, all those stepped volumes with corner steel framed windows, and little sticking out balconies. That's about all I know, except that … Continue reading San Diego, 1936
Original post 11-13 July 2020 Photos 20 June The exterior of the #ManchesterUnityBuilding is Gothic/Deco, but the interiors are fully #ArtDecostyle; zigzags and chevrons and little delicate patterns. But there’s some oddities too, showing maybe architect #MarcusBarlow hadn’t quite fully grasped how the style was usually executed - there’s a sort of flat pink marble … Continue reading Manchester Unity Building lobby
Original post 8 July 2020 This is #NewspaperHouse, built in 1932-33 for the Herald as their city office as it is, and as it might have been; there was a competition, with 8 entries published, mostly quite conservative but all Art Deco more or less, showing how it had taken hold after first emerging in … Continue reading Newspaper House, Collins Street, competition 1932.
Original post 25 February 2020 Cute Deco flats in #FitzroyStreetStKilda, BUT the two halves are so close together! Check out those balconies down the back, you could lean out and touch the other one ! As far as I can work out, they’re the stairs, but still, there’s lounge rooms facing each other only like … Continue reading Deco flats – bit too close for comfort
Original post 23 February 2020 This is the factory next to the factory that the #SkippingGirlSign is on, and I’m very chuffed to have just found via Trove old newspaper searches that this was built in 1938, and the architects were #AlderAndLacey. Even though I helped get the sign on the Heritage Register, nobody ever … Continue reading Not Skipping Girl, Handley & Co, designed by Alder & Lacey, 1938
Original post 22 February 2020 Photos 22 July 2018 A tower with a #blockofflats attached, or is it the other way round ? ‘La Torelle’, a rather quirky design in #BrightonRoadElwood by #WHMerritt, c1935. Seems the tower was originally open on top, and at least one flat has a great fireplace and another a great … Continue reading Apartment ’tower’, Elwood
Original post 21 February 2020 #nofilter. I assume they meant it to just be white, but it’s come out a rather yellow white- I guess needed an undercoat on top of that pale ochre ! Which might have been the original colour? I think I like this colour more though. #PrinceOfWalesHotelStKilda Photo 22 October 2019
Original post 19 February 2020 Photos 1 December 2019 This place in #CowderoyStreet, #StKildaWest looks very typical 1930s #ArtDeco, but it’s 1947 ! Designer unknown. But might actually be earlier ? Ground and first floor are 4 spacious three bed flats, clearly for well off families / empty nesters who didn’t want a house, but … Continue reading Late Deco in West St Kilda
2 February 2025 Photos of what’s now Collingwood Yards in Johnston Street I took in 2014 and 2020, plus two recent ones. Fabulous striking entry, with an arched rising sun motif, and scalloped brickwork above, a fine effort by Public Works chief architect Percy Everett, completed in 1939 as the Collingwood Technical School. It is … Continue reading Collingwood Tech, 1938
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
Storey of Melbourne 