Category: StKilda
19 October 2018 The St Kilda Library was designed by Enrico Taglietti, and built 1971-73. Often called #Brutalist cos of the #offformconcrete, I’d say it’s really an interpretation of #FrankLloydWright, with all that horizontality and #batteredwalls, but it’s a great interpretation! Love the wacky angled gap/windows and the attention to detail. Tagleitti was an Italian … Continue reading St Kilda Public Library, Enrico Taglietti, 1973.
Plans for the #StKildaTriangle are in the news today so here’s my (terrible) sketches I did for the #communityconsultation in 2012. Having gone to a number of sessions, hearing that most people wanted green space, I came up with a #CarloCatani-style palm tree avenue linking a forecourt in front of the Palais straight to the … Continue reading St Kilda Triangle
Original post 8 August 2019: Great #Edwardian house on #AclandStreetStKilda, corner Jackson Street, renovation work finished, and I’ve got pics from when they started early last year - only change is restoring a bit of the verandah, and blocking off the side entry stair. They actually demolished and rebuilt the brick fence, which was leaning … Continue reading Edwardian restoration St Kilda
October 2018 Repost 2018: Check out what’s inside ! Hidden behind 60s flats at 40 Alma Road, St Kilda, there’s this mansion. Called Rhianva, later Shirley, built 1868 for David Rosenthal, jewellery merchant, part of the early concentration of well-off Jewish peeps in St Kilda starting in the 1850s. The architects were Crouch & Wilson, … Continue reading Hidden St Kilda mansion
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
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