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Would you believe this was someone’s house ? #SirGeorgeVerdon, local manager of the #ESandAbank in the 1880s clearly believed in living above the shop, but in a very grand manner. So above the Gothic Bank chamber windows, the first floor #VenetianGothic #tracery was the balcony outside the dining room, while the #colonnade above was the … Continue reading Sir George Verdon’s House
An excellent Victorian #shoptop right next to yesterday’s bank on #ClarendonStreetSouthMelbourne. Lots of great details, an #openpediment over each window, with an elaborate #acroterion, supported on #castironcolumns, very unusual, and an elaborate arch inside with #classicalmask #keystone. The left one is even unpainted ! A bit ochre, prob from the last #limewash. But missing whatever … Continue reading ShopTop no 5
Not that many Gothic style Victorian banks, mostly for the #ESandAbank, thought all by #WilliamWardell, but no he only did the Flemish style ones, this one in #ClarendonStreetSouthMelbourne by #TerryAndOakden, built 1880; posted it last April when it was still an #ANZbank, but not any more ☹️ Update May 2021 : it’s now in the … Continue reading A fine Gothic Revival bank
All that’s left of the 1880s #MiddleParkStation building after the fire of the night of 17th Feb 2018 - I pass by most days but hadn’t noticed it had burned down till I read about it ! (too much #tramstagramming?) It had been a cafe called #MART130 (tram backwards plus stop number) since at least … Continue reading Middle Park Station, gone but coming back.
Hmm might have been better with wide angle and not strong sunlight.... anyway, this is the terrific #SargoodWarehouse in #FlindersLane, terribly important as one if the earliest and the most inventive #TallArchedRedBrickRomanesque building in #Melbourne, built 1899 (check out the spindly timber framed bowed windows Iberia 3 floors !). A local version of the American … Continue reading Sargood Warehouse, John Sulman, 1899
Not large but manages to impress, with its deep scoring and prominent tower - #Dorijo, #VictoriaParade, #EastMelbourne, by #IGAnderson, 1934; Anderson went on to do a whole lot of flats after this, mostly with that extra bit of flair, like this one (just renovated after years of flaking pink paint, with a name possibly made … Continue reading Dorijo, East Melbourne, another IG Anderson triumph
This odd #redbrick wall right on the street at the corner of #PuntRoad and Commercial Road in #SouthYarra is actually #FawknerMansions, built in 1910, and Melbourne’s oldest extant #blockofflats. Reputedly the first to be purpose built self contained flats, with 25 'complete suites' of 5 rooms each. Designed by Ernest Willis in that severe red … Continue reading Melbourne’s oldest BlockOfFlats !
#ArchiNerd research - finally got to see the archive plan I wanted - and yes the building in #LittleBourkeStreet that I thought was interesting 50s is actually 1940 ! The only change is the pink gridded area being rendered in grey (and losing the cute rooftop sign). Designed by RM & MH King, it was … Continue reading Chart House, from the archives.
23 December 2018 Excellent bank in #ChapelStreetSouthYarra by #WalterButler, built 1918; a very ‘muscular’ as they say composition, the #ioniccolumns almost lost within the deep reveal, high #rusticated base, and those wild stylised hanging things either side. Butler is better known for Arts & Crafts / Old English houses for the wealthy, so this is … Continue reading Union Bank, Chapel Street, 1918.
December 2018: This grand frontage of the Gordon Institute in #Geelong was created in the late 1940s, and designed my fave architect #PercyEverett. He was tasked with added a Textile School to the college, so of course took the opportunity to mark his mark, so the addition has a pair of tower elements, and elaborate … Continue reading Percy Everett hometown statement.
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
