Original post 12 March 2022: Carlton Heritage Study now out for comment - good to see they’ve included the 70s, and some Brutalism! I do like the carpark, but the others I can appreciate but I’m not so fond of. They are : Women’s Hospital Carpark, Grattan Street, Mockridge Stahle & Mitchell 1974, RMIT buildings … Continue reading Carlton Modern →

10 March 2019: A pub on each corner ? Yes ! The corner of Brunswick Street and Gertrude has two, that competed, or rather didn’t have to since there were enough drinkers first both, from the 1860s to the 1990s, On the nw corner is the Rob Roy, established in 1857. It doesn’t look 1850s … Continue reading Fitzroy, a pub on nearly every corner, and sometimes two. →

6 March 2023: St Paul’s Cathedral with towers as designed by English architect William Butterfield in 1877. I could never understand why the 1920s spires didn’t match the rest, not even the stone. Just got a great little book on its history by the late (Bishop) James Grant, which clarifies a lot for me. First … Continue reading St Paul’s Cathedral →

7 March 2023: Demolished in 2021, this building in Russell Street wasn’t the most exciting architecture, but was on the edge of a pretty intact precinct, and almost got listed but unfortunately too late. Long owned and occupied by the Theosophical Society, it was built in 1923 for Russell Investments as a rental office building, … Continue reading Russel Street – ex car showroom →

Original post 8 March 2019: Remember the huge fuss about demolishing the Art Deco #LonsdaleHouse back in 2010 ? For that glassy thing on the left, which they said they absolutely had to have to make #TheEmporium viable? They also facaded the three other buildings on their site, and these two came up rather well, … Continue reading Nahum Barnet x 2 →

Original post 8 March 2019: PawsonHouse, #FlindersLane,1935, #TompkinsAndTompkins. I had a studio here in c1990 in the attic, which was almost a corrugated iron shed on the roof, maybe once a caretakers, we could get out onto the actual roof though, it was great! Now seems to be all rebuilt. @ Tessuti So glad to … Continue reading Pawson House, Flinders Lane →

Original post 8 March 2018: That fabbo #mansard roofed shop next to #BalaclavaStation, don’t know the exact history but whoever built it wanted their shop to stand out - and come to think of it the rail line was raised in the 1880s, so this roof was always seen from this angle. It might have … Continue reading Billiard Hall, Carlisle Street, Balaclava →

Original post 7 March 2017: FultonLane, #FenderKatsalidis, completed June 2016. Franklin St front. I like that it's timber and greenery, though it is odd seeing such natural materials dominating, and on such a scale. FultonLane, #FenderKatsalidis (someone else's photo), but I wanted to show that the folded spandrel panels and the glazing are very shiny … Continue reading Fulton Lane (but it’s a building not a lane) →

Original post 7 March 2019: #Building4 at #RMIT, the first big workshop, and the second purpose built venue, designed in a fairly elaborate #GothicRevival style in 1890 by #OakdenAddisonandKemp, who had done #Building1 (#FrancisOrmondBuilding) a few years before in a bolder, simpler Gothic. The interior is all original no-frills exposed structure of #castiron columns and … Continue reading RMIT 1890 workshops →

Original post 6 March 2017: Beaut little Edwardian villa, or maybe 'transitional', since as well as the typically Edwardian form, details and materials, it's got a Victorian #slateroof, #tessalatedtile path and #castironfence. Behind the #hedge, you can admire the unusual #greentile #dado, the rose garden, and the classical urns, possibly added by European migrants in … Continue reading Edwardian in Fitzroy →