I do love a good suburban #MockTudor #PetrolStation- especially converted into a cafe ! Built in #GlenEiraRoad in 1935 (with attached shops and residence) as the Tudor Service Station, renamed #GloversServiceStation in 1961 apparently - maybe they changed the word Tudor to Glover ? Anyway, great details, chunks of ‘exposed’ bricks, some ‘cracks’ in the … Continue reading Mock Tudor Petrol Station →

#StKildaTownHall toilets have #floortiles in #StKildaFootballClub colours ! (At least the men’s do). This is in the #postmodern section by #ARMarchitecture from 1994. #PeterCorrigan did the same thing 2 years earlier at #RMITbuilding8, though he did different clubs on different floors and not so obviously.

The #iceskating girl #neonsign up on a wall in the lobby of the #StKildaTownHall that I went to the launch of last month has quite a history. One of two put up on the 1922 dance hall building on the #UpperEsplanade when it was converted into the #StMoritzIceSkating rink in 1939; It closed and was … Continue reading St Moritz Skating Girl skates on ! →

Original post 1 December 2018: In Montague Street, #AlbertPark, there’s a set of great, elaborate #Victorian terraces; in fact there’s two blocks of them exactly the same, one a row of 8, the other 10. They're mostly intact (though two seem to have had the parapets replaced with gabled roofs), but many urns have disappeared, … Continue reading Albert Park Victorian →

Victorian crinkly bits; these #terraces in #AlbertPark are all the same, but each has its own #wingwalls, for that extra level of elaboration. Hmm not wing walls, maybe party walls ?

#OurLadyofMountCarmel, completed 1928, rearing up in the middle of #MiddlePark; surprisingly for a quiet suburb it replaced a church that was already pretty big (maybe it was bigger families ? Or because it’s home for the #Carmelites ?) anyway it’s by #AugustusFritsch who did about a dozen impressive churches pretty much all in a similar … Continue reading Fritsch and Prenzel : Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park, 1928. →

2020 : The Canterbury, on Canterbury Rd, #StKilda, weirdly tall and skinny, built 1914, amongst the first wave of flats built in Melbourne, when still at the experimental (for Melbourne) early stage. This was built like 3 single storey terrace houses on top of each other, though it’s a tiny site, smaller than the average … Continue reading The Canterbury St Kilda : early flats, high rise to boot ! →

You can tell this was made in the 1970s - the last part is ‘#ComputerAge’ 😁. It’s the huge #mosaic ‘#HistoryofGeelong’ that runs the whole length of the foyer of the #GeelongStateOffices, made 1977-80 by state artist #HaroldFreedman. I seem to have photographed the ladies that feature, like the bikini girl, the 30s dancer and … Continue reading Biggest mosaic ever ! History of Geelong, Harold Freedman, 1980, Geelong State Offices. →

This fine building on Mercer Street #Geelong was rescued from near collapse a few years ago- and just as well, cos it’s a very unusual #GoldRush #prefabricated #castiron and #corrugatediron building made by Glasgow firm Robertson & Lister in 1853. It was erected here the next year, as Brown Brothers Store. I see they reproduced … Continue reading Prefabricated Cast Iron Store, Geelong West, a symphony in brown. →

The best older building in Geelong ? The great #TandGbuilding, one of the nearly 20 small-to-large T & G buildings dotted around Australia and NZ, all built 1924-1940, many with distinctive stepped towers, (almost) all designed by #AandKHenderson, the Geelong one was their first foray into #ArtDeco, and remarkably built pretty much during the #GreatDepression, … Continue reading T & G Building, Geelong, 1934, A&K Henderson go Art Deco →