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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.
Original post 29 June 2020 Great shot from @heraldsunphoto_retro of the Prudential Building, cnr Bourke & Queen only just demolished late last year; you can see the other 3 corners of this intersection are vacant, ready for the mid rise office buildings all constructed in 1960-63, three of them, like this one, by #BatesSmartMcCutcheon, this … Continue reading Prudential, Bourke Street, 1960.
Original post 29 June 2020 #TolarnoHotel in #StKilda is actually a fine example of #midcenturymodern, but even though the place is on the #VictorianHeritageRegister, exactly when it was built and who designed it isn’t recorded by them; it’s a totally an addition to the front of a guest house, itself converted from an 1884 house … Continue reading Tolarno Hotel, St Kilda
Original post 28 June 2020 The #DisplayBlock in #LittleCollinsStreet was an unusual response to the highly central site - it was built in 1921 as vertical shops, with only display cases on the ground level, advertising the 20 business upstairs (by ‘rapid lift’), all devoted to women’s wear, milliners, lingerie, dressmakers etc. Some of it … Continue reading Display Block, 1921
Original post 27 June 2020 Did you know there was an earlier design for #FlindersStreetStation ? I did but I’d forgotten what it looked like - so here it is from the Illustrated Australian News on 16 May 1883. It won a design competition, and clearly the idea was to have east and west trains … Continue reading Flinders Street Station, the forgotten 1883 competition
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
Storey of Melbourne 