Some #brutalistrevival in #Elwood - a development by Piccolo, designed by Hecker Guthrie and #WoodsBagot (did HG do the interiors ?). The conc makes a great canopy. The overall style is quite nice, 60s revival bricks, modernist lines, and proper hanging greenery too - can anyone tell me what it is exactly? Can’t show you … Continue reading ‘Elwood House’, 2018 →

Interesting block of flats on the edge of the Elwood shops in Ormond Road, I could tell it was 50s or maybe late 40s, like prewar but with jaunty 50s things like the porch and stair railings. The agents sales blurb actually says ‘by noted architect #SirBernardEvans’ who did many flats from the 1930s into … Continue reading Melton Court, Elwood, 1951 →

Repost from this day in 2019: Even Richmond has some #VictorianMansions, on the hill closest to the city of course - this one is called Elim “formerly called #Yooralbyn, built in 1889 for William Harper, a partner in a leading Melbourne merchant and manufacturing firm.” Then it was maybe a boarding house, I think the … Continue reading A mansion in Richmond, Elim on Erin Street, 1889 →

April 2021 Reading through my (photo) copy of Picture Palaces And Flea Pits (1983) I remembered that when I was growing up in East Camberwell in the early 70s we had 2 local cinemas ! The Broadway, originally Ours, was virtually at the end of my street (also called Broadway). I only remember going once, … Continue reading Broadway Theatre, but not NY. →

18 April 2021 14-16 Isabella Grove, Hawthorn, which I posted this day in 2019 when the ‘Victorian’ stair was up for sale due to big renovations by a new owner - but it seems the stair was/is 1990s (unless from some other Victorian house), because even though it was billed as an original house in … Continue reading Completely new old in Hawthorn →

25 March 2023 The new enlarged Melbourne Holocaust Museum in Selwyn Street Elsternwick looks finished, but it’s not open yet. Designed by Kerstin Thompson, I was surprised by the scale and flatness (and the sun was behind it), but being varied shades of white with some bricks in glass through which the sun was shining … Continue reading Jewish Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick →

I rather like the war/torn look of this one, at the Spencer Street end of #LittleBourkeStreet. Built in 1952, I think by the @cityofmelbourne as a store, which it still is - that’s where their heritage collection including things like old mayoral robes, Moomba things, paintings, maybe important documents too ? Photo from 2018, when … Continue reading Patchy in Little Bourke →

April 2021 There’s an endless supply of lost cinemas, but here’s a particularly elegant one, suitable for its location - the Village, in #ToorakVillage, opened in 1936. It was designed by #CNHollinshead who had done the interior of #HerMajestysTheatreMelourne 2 years earlier, also in a refined Art Deco style, all timber veneer with gold beading. … Continue reading Village Theatre, Toorak →

So Buck Rogers ! There’s not a lot of Art Deco cinemas left in Victoria, and almost none by #TaylorAndSoilleux, who I think did the best ones - often including the most extraordinary #ticketboxes, which probably went well before the theatres themselves. In order they are Padua Brunswick, Park Albert Park, Hartwell, Windsor, Oriana in … Continue reading Ticket booth deco delights, Taylor & Soilleux →

This is the ‘Vegemite Factory’ (Kraft Foods) in Port Melbourne which is up for #heritagelisting, as part of the #FishermansBend review. The administration building is very nice albeit slightly altered - it was built in 1957, with first floor additions in 1967, both by #OakleyAndParkes, nice #glasscurtainwall, but the cream bricks are now rendered grey … Continue reading Vegemite heritage →