27 September 2021: The delightfully elaborate Spanish style Royce Hotel on St Kilda Road was built in 1928 as the #KellowFalkiner car showrooms, designed by the versatile and prolific Harry Norris (as a rebuild of an old cable car engine house). In the 50s the fabulous high arched roof showroom was divided by a new … Continue reading Kellow Falkiner car showroom →

Repost 2018: Repost 2018: The massive #bluestone #GoldsboroughMort #woolstore on the cnr of #bourkestreet and William survives surrounded by #officetowers. Built in stages starting 1862 with the corner bit, extended 1882, and top floor added incl the cornice. All very #renaissancerevival in fact looks a little like the palazzo Medici. And till the mid 70s … Continue reading Goldsborough Mort Woolstore, Bourke Street →

Repost 2019: This fantastic #leadlight extravaganza is in #StationStreetMalvern, opposite the station. It’s now a cafe, and was someplace that sold insurance, presumably originally just before or after WW1, maybe it was a real estate agent ?

26 September 2021 I do love the #TudorRevival shops scattered about town, this one in #BurwoodRoadHawthorn quite interesting, being all #halftimbered, with propped bay windows, more like the medieval originals than many others - I tried to get it #heritagelisted when @cityofboroondara finally protected the glenferrie rd shops back in 2011, but this was disconnected … Continue reading Doomed Tudor in Hawthorn →

Repost 2018: Possibly Melbourne's first fully #postmodernist commercial building, #1collinsstreet was completed in 1984, designed by the now internationally famous #dentoncorkermarshall, with Peck Von Hartel Trethowan (as PDCM). A bit #decoecho, but noted for incorporating traditional elements like actual #cementrender, deepset #windowreveals, and addressing the corner with a little tower (which was developer Jack Chia’s … Continue reading 1 Collins Street, 1984 →

Repost 2018: These buildings were retained to the depth of their front rooms as a kind of historic skin for #onecollinsstreet in 1984, after much fighting by #NationalTrustVictoria and others nearly saw them lost. The left pair are 5-7 Collins, townhouse/surgeries by #LloydTayler, but more excitingly #9CollinsStreet was built as GrosvenorChambers #artistsstudios in 1888, designed … Continue reading Townhouses and artists studios in the Paris End. →

26 September 2019: Passing by couldn’t resist, it’s so stylish, especially the strong blue edging, like to think that’s the original colour. I think I’ll probably end up posting just about every building in #StKilda! This ones in #RobeStreet, built in 1936, and designed by Seabrook & Flides, who were early converts to cubic bricky … Continue reading High Royd, Robe Street, St Kilda →

26 September 2018: Dr Bowens surgery and townhouse, later known as Portland House, built in 1872, architect #LloydTayler. The facade was restored by @aboderestoration and @opataustralia in 2015, see my photo from 2013 (one of my first instas !), which shows the ivy that had been there for decades. Just wish they'd restored/improved the 1960s … Continue reading Dr Bowen’s Townhouse →

25 Sept 2021 Help save Sunshine Tech ! Built 1938 by my fave designer #PercyEverett, chief architect of the public works department, in a fine Streamlined Moderne style. Closed some time ago, and now the Education Department, having failed to find a new use or properly secure the site, thinks the best solution is complete … Continue reading Sunshine Tech in danger →

Repost 2019: Always liked this #ArtsAndCraftsStyle #blockofflats in #GreyStreetStKilda, great tower-like massing, projecting eaves, and big arched windows. Built 1921, so it’s relatively early, almost late Edwardian really. Architect R Clifford Jasper. Symmetrical along both axes, with these crazy tight #scissorstairs on each side, which join across at the top - I once led a … Continue reading Arts & Crafts flats →