Original post 7 June 2020 Photo July 2018 Until recently I wouldn’t have given this kind of block a second look, but this one at 57 Mitford Street Elwood had nice details like patterned mosaic tiles and brickwork, and wrought iron, a bit of interest on an otherwise modern design. Probably 1960s. Big windows, reasonably … Continue reading Mid Century Modern in Elwood →

Original post 4 June 2020 Photos 12 August 2018 Always thought this one must’ve lost its verandah, but no it never had one. #Myoora, off #DandenongRoad in #CaulfieldNorth, was built in 1886-7 in a pretty unusual style; an eclectic combo of #Italianate and #QueenAnneStyle, and the tower has been described as Romanesque. I guess the … Continue reading Myoora, Caulfield North, 1887 →

Original post 3 June 2020 Photo 1 September 2019 This place on #HighStreetArmadale doesn’t look like much, but the wide front with an arch and simple detailing were clues that it might be an old cinema - which it is, in fact one of the oldest purpose built cinemas that’s still somewhat intact. The #ArmadaleTheatre … Continue reading Armadale Theatre, 1912 →

Original post 2 June 2020 Photos Jan 2020 If you go round the back of the College of Surgeons in Spring Street, and look into the sunken courtyard, you’ll see these random bits of #columns, which were discovered when they were digging it out in 2004 for new wings - they’re all that’s left of … Continue reading Melbourne fragments – Model School, Spring Street →

Original post 1 June 2020 Photos 19 November 2019 The interior of #HamerHall is an odd combo of late 70s #SirRoyGrounds #brutalist #bushhammeredconcrete, with 1980 #JohnTruscott glam #goldleaf, #smokedglass, and leather walls, with a 2012 overlay by @armarchitecture of orange carpet, brass and angled escalators- and it works ! I remember seeing this #goldleaf at … Continue reading Hamer Hall, 80s glam. →

Original post 28 May 2020 Not my pics. The #HopetounTeaRooms is up for sale, due to a failed expansion into the basement and covid19 - so of course I had to research it’s full history ! Firstly, most of what you see is 1976 pseudo Victoriana (I quite like the wallpaper, but not fussed if … Continue reading Hopetoun Tea Rooms – history corrected. →

Original post 27 May 2020 Is it just me ? This thing is wall made of marble and pale thin vertical bricks to a ‘secret courtyard’ bar replacing a row of 80s shops in Liverpool Street behind #JobWarehouse - id much prefer a wall made of #redbrick, like the Victorian warehouses next door, after all … Continue reading ‘Secret garden’ for Liverpool Street, with a tacky wall. →

Original post 25 May 2020 I’m still very annoyed about this development from the c1998 - ok, the church was abandoned and needed rescuing, but it didn’t need a shop built virtually in front- I mean the shop could have been to the right, or not at all, leaving the main diagonal view free. And … Continue reading Wesleyan Church St Kilda, surrounded. →

Original post 23 May 2020 Photos July 2019 We won! The @heritagecouncilvic agreed that #FootscrayPsychiatricCentre, completed 1977, designed by James Fong within the #PublicWorksDepartment, is a worthy addition to the state register, both as a good example of #Brutalism (couldn’t get more Brutal actually, though always designed to be screened and softened by native trees) … Continue reading Footscray Psychiatric Hospital now on the VHR. →

Original post 25 May 2020, updated 2025 A great pair of ArtDeco apartment buildings on George Street in East Melbourne; they back on to the back of Garden Avenue where all the flats were designed by #IGAnderson, who probably designed these too, c1940. The left one is more streamlined, the other is more Georgianish. I … Continue reading Art Deco pair, East Melbourne →