Repost this day 2017: OK I get it now, it's in #PortMelbourne, it's called #Aqueous, so they must be #bubbles. Like in the surf. But the bathrooms only have showers. Harchitecture. #RotheLowman. Update 2021: the gap on the left was that hold out old mans house. The exterior curves don’t show inside much, though most … Continue reading Bubbly in Port Melbourne →

Repost this day 2016: A glaring example of facadism, where only the front wall and short bit of side wall was retained, and then the dominated by the black box of the carpark levels - this got a permit way back in 2010 from Justin Madden, though a second design delayed starting and it is … Continue reading Facadism no 1. →

25 June 2021 I posted about the threat to this great little place in #AlbertParkVillage two years ago; it’s a cute doctors surgery and flats built in 1934 around an 1895 house (B&W pic). In the 90s to 2016 film director Paul Cox lived and worked here. It was proposed to be replaced by a … Continue reading Drs Surgery Albert Park. →

23 May 2025 The delightful MacRoberston Fountain behind the Shrine was unveiled in 1934. It was designed by Phillip Hudson, one of the architects of the Shrine, using the sane granite, and very neoclassical too, but also a bit Art Deco. The sculptures are by Paul Montford who also worked on the Shrine, here providing … Continue reading MacRobertson Fountain 1934 →

48 Hampden Road, Armadale. At least they had a go. Completed in about 2019, it’s by @leetonpointonarchitects, who said “Not only does the house function well on a practical level, the clients have been overwhelmed by the calm refuge the house nurtures through its natural organic materiality.” Interiors by #alisonpyeinteriors, which I think are great, … Continue reading Zaha Hadid, sort of →

14 December 2023 Former BP House, St. Kilda Rd, 1963-65 Demaine, Russell, Trundle, Armstrong & Orton. It was turned into luxe apartments in the 90s, called The Domain, in the process the brown brick sides and columns were rendered over, at first pale, now dark, so the effect from a distance is much the same. … Continue reading BP house, 1965 →

Something I snapped in 2013; I’d quite forgotten that the #YorkshireBrewery had everyone’s favourite #silos. I found streetview has almost the same view, down a lane from Gipps Street. Sign by #edoblov3

23 June 2018: Right down the far end of the Docklands is this ! The (abandoned) Shipping Control Tower. Plans for one of the last bits of the Docklands recently approved (with buildings higher than originally envisaged of course); but at least they clearly show the retention of the 1966 Shipping Control Tower, never officially … Continue reading Shipping Control Tower →

Mon Reve, by fave architect #IGAnderson, 1937, Hampden Road, Armadale. Another one of the few 30s Modernist houses in Melb, though leaning heavily to Art Deco too. Been meaning to see it for ages - disappointing that there was a great big skip and tree right in front ! 2nd image from @geoffreygoddardphotography much better. … Continue reading Mon Reve modern, 1937 →

One of Melbourne’s few houses that really channels interwar Modernism, though more the British version than German (with plenty of Art Deco flourishes too). On the corner of Toorak & Hopetoun Roads, it was built in 1936 for Dr Graham Boyd, and the architect was A Mortimer McMillan (I don’t know anything else he did). … Continue reading Dr Graham Boyd House, Toorak Road, 1936 →