No 1 #UpperEsplanade, #StKilda; not my favourite #blockofflats but it’s an interesting design, giving everyone a view.... if you sit on the balcony, which all get a bit of sun too in the late afternoons. Anyone know the architect and date ? @stylisticspecies ?

#StJamesGlenIris, #BogleBanfield, 1959, Melbourne’s most minimalist modernist church, and therefore the one that architects like the most. Originally it had #concrete screens with cross cutouts, making it (somewhat) more obviously a church, but they were removed c2005, leaving a brick box with inset black windows. (The nearby #Korowa girls school has a section of the … Continue reading St James, Glen Iris, 1959 →

November 2018: This is the Tennis Pavilion at Labassa, a very rare thing indeed, since similar garden things from other large mansion estates are long gone. It was probably added when Alexander Robertson revamped the house to what we see today in 1890, and probably designed by JAB Koch, who did the house. The tennis … Continue reading Tennis anyone ? Labassa pavilion 1890. →

#AugustusFritsch really went to town on this one, his first major church, #StJosephsMalvern, built 1908-8. He did at least one earlier design that was boldly red & white (‘#bloodandbandages’), a bit more Edwardian, this one a mad combo of #Romanesque with stepped Flemish gables and #Baroque domed turrets; the @nationaltrustvic listing notes it’s part of … Continue reading Another Fritsch – St Joseph’s, Malvern, 1908. →

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. →