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Original post 24 July 2020 Photos 15 July Unusual - looks like what was maybe a pair of Victorian houses or an usually wide one, executed in nice #polychromebrick, that got fine over if day in the 30s, with a new stylish entry, but leaving the bricks mostly untouched. It may have been a private … Continue reading Mr Fletcher’s boarding house, Port Melbourne
Original post 24 July 2020 And suddenly it’s nearly all there - looking much bigger curvy and concretey than I thought - but I think I like it ! I hadn’t realised that it really cascades down, right to the footpath wall, the part I didn’t like, but I see it fits really. #victorianpridecentre, @grantamonarchitects … Continue reading Pride Centre update
Original post 23 July 2020 Deserve to preserve ? This is the chapel at #KostkaHall, Xavier’s junior school in #Brighton that they’ve just said they’re closing. It was built in 1966-7, designed by prolific church architect #AlanGRobertson, one of the few circular churches/chapels in Vic, nice spire thing, but prob the best part is the … Continue reading Modernist Chapel, Kostka Hall, Brighton, 1967
Original post 4 October 2019 Not #facadism, seeing as they kept the whole front section, but shows how you can still make it look terrible - in this case by having it sit in front of a huge wall of new building, like a stubbed toe, made even worse that the streetscape is also a … Continue reading MCG Hotel / Parade Hotel, East Melbourne, almost facadism, looks bad.
Original post 21 July 2020 Photos 29 June Perfectly nice if not outstanding Victorian house in #FitzroyStreetStKilda, but the interesting thing is it was abandoned in the 80s/early 90s, the owner sitting on it hoping for some #demolitionbyneglect, but before it got to that point the then #StKildaCouncil passed a local law about deliberate dilapidation, … Continue reading Victorian house on Fitzroy Street, saved (30 years ago)
Original post 20 July 2020 Photos 14 July Sad sight on #BayStreetPortMelbourne, been this way since a fire in 2015 (I think). Its yet another surviving (partly) very early cinema, being built as the Port Theatre in 1913, and closing in 1956, and used for retail ever since. In 2018 a permit was issued to … Continue reading Port Melbourne Theatre, 1913, burnt
Original post 17 July 2020 Time for my annual pilgrimage to see Finn Barr, in Cecil Street, #SouthMelbourne in winter, this time with my wide angle. Here’s what I said in 2017: Built in 1885 for local doctor WH Ford, who obviously wanted to make a statement! A #terracehouse with a facade and tower worthy … Continue reading Finn Barr, South Melbourne, 1885
Original post 10 July 2020 Photos 7 July The old #PortMelbournePostOffice was built in 1862, and apparently designed by the famous #JJClark ! It has an almost twin in Kilmore, but in bluestone, and less altered - but I do like the pale brickwork here, pretty rare for this early date (perhaps imitating London brick?) … Continue reading Port Melbourne Post Office (1862), Drill Hall (1911), and Court House (1860)
Original post 9 July 2020 The #PortMelbourne #FreemasonsHall in #liardetstreet is great, a bit #ViennaSecession, or maybe just jaunty Edwardian. It’s 1917 obvs, but that’s all I know. Update : there's a foundation stone behind that tree, the honorary architects were CEMerrett and supervising architect Frederick J Brearley, both of course were members and both … Continue reading Port Melbourne Freemasons Hall, 1917
Original post 8 October 2019 Spotted out the windows of #MyerMelbourne Menswear on the 4the floor - the giant clock, placed there with the Bourke Street frontage, completed 1934. So, like the building, I presume it was designed by #TompkinsAndTompkins. Very #ArtDeco.
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
Storey of Melbourne 