This project was announced in 2015, and still hasn’t opened - but it’s probably complete. This is what I said in 2017: Finally found out where the 1880 dome viewing platform of the #RoyalExhibitionBuilding was located. Plans are progressing to make it accessible again, with a lift escape stair etc hidden within the south transept … Continue reading Dome Promenade at the REB →

Repost this day 2017: #KewSynagogue/ #KewHebrewCongregation, 1963, #BridgeHayden or just Tony Hayden; #repost from 2016 cos I just found photos of the interior, surprisingly traditional with that arched roof, seems like most of Melbourne’s modernist synagogues are traditional, certainly not shy to use decorative elements like the balcony front pattern here and the lush crystal … Continue reading Kew Synagogue →

The #VictorianPrideCentre is finished ! Or at least opened, I havnt been in yet - I took these photos last week. The design, by @grantamonarchitects and @bauarchitects.urbanists, doesn’t attempt to represent LGBTQI in some obvious way (thank goodness) but instead the exotic style of st kilda, as seen in the arches, re-interpreted as circles and … Continue reading Pride Centre completed →

Repost this day 2018: #MacRobertsonGirlsHigh (aka#MacRob), built in 1934 with funds provided by chocolate king #MacPhersonRobertson. Recently returned from Europe, young achitect #NormanSeabrook won the competition ushered in European #Modernism to Melbourne - or at least the Dutch post-expressionist bricky sort, as developed especially by #WillemDudok in the 1920s - #HilversumTownHall is the prime example, … Continue reading Macrob Modern →

I photographed this in 2014, then found out it was originally the #CollingwoodBowlsClub pavilion, probably from the 1880s, but they’d gone, leaving it to the Senior Citizens as Pioneer Hall, but not maintained, so looked like this. I knew it was a very rare example of #expressedtimberframe, where the cladding is only internal, and the … Continue reading Demolished c2015 without a whimper →

Repost 2021: I do like ACCA, great sculptural slabs of #cortensteel, at various angles, overlapping, set in a stark gravel expanse, with entry under a sharp point. Very Deconstructivist, a kind of late aspect of Postmodern, all about angular or ‘exploded’ forms. By @wood_marsh, completed 2002, a long way on from their 1992 fun little … Continue reading ACCA, folded rusty steel →

Repost this day 2018: The #MelbourneSynagogue was completed in 1930, in a conservative #NeoClassical (or is it Baroque) style, with a nice low #dome adding an eastern touch, but could easily be a grand church. Designed by #NahumBarnet, for which he came out of retirement when he was in his early 70s. Good site but … Continue reading Melbourne Synagogue, 1930 →

14 July 2021 The Malthouse in Southbank was built in 1892 for the #CastlemaineBrewery (their brew tower is over on Queensbridge Street). In 1986 the building was gifted to the Playbox Theatre Co, which took a while to find the restoration and conversion (leaving a lot of great structure inside), opening as the Malthouse Theatre … Continue reading Malthouse Theatre →

Repost this day 2017 new photos 2018: Always thought this very unusual thing on #PuntRoad was an old funeral parlour, but no it was built as a church, in 1939 ! The #ApostolicChurch (an English Pentecostal movement apparently). May explain why looks like a wild gothicish theatre or public building rather than a church, plus … Continue reading Expressionist Gothic →

16 September 2018: #PublicToilet as rustic sculpture, one of the best things @WoodMarsh ever did; #ladies have the curved roof, #gents have the square block. #StKildaBotanicalGardens, 1993. First three pics 2024