Repost 2019: I quite like this one, ‘Meridian’ on the hill of #StKildaRoad at #AlmaRoad, #CHTarchitecture do a lot with a little, BUT it’s another random highrise, popping up all in its own; and it has the the problem with firsts, it’s built with most flats looking out the sides, over low rise, but not … Continue reading Graphic design in St Kilda →

17 September 2021 Landene, one of the remaining #stkildaroadmansions, but you’d have to say more of a big house than a mansion. Made a bit bigger by expanding the right front room downstairs into a sunroom. Built 1897 for McHenry England, tea importer. The heritage study doesn’t mention an architect. Unusual sort of almost Regency … Continue reading Landene, last private house on St Kilda Road →

16 September 2019: Looks like 30s #creambrick #earlymodern flats in #StKilda - but actually it’s 1959 ! #BurnettLodge in Burnett St. Thanks to whoever did the wiki page on #MordechaiBenshrnesh, I can see that most of his projects pick up the ideas of 1920s European avant-guard, very plain rectilinear unadorned, I guess from his training … Continue reading Burnett Lodge, nice garden →

Repost 2018: This is the best time of year to photograph the #MelbourneTownHall, except for the odd glass boxes. Interesting to compare with the 1866 design and 1870 version. Designed by #ReedandBarnes, #JosephReedArchitect. Partly the sketch is a bit vertically exaggerated, but also the site was enlarged a little, so the central bays were built … Continue reading Melbourne Town Hall →

Repost 2019: The delightful old #RoyalVictorianInstitutefortheBlind on #StKildaRoad was built in 1868, and designed by #CrouchAndWilson in a lovely picturesque #GothicRevival style (though actually not many pointed arches). BUT it’s basically always in shadow these days because before they sold they got a permit from #heritagevictoria for a big apartment building taking up all the … Continue reading Blind Institute in the dark, St Kilda Road →

Not my pictures but worth a post - Invergowrie in Coppin Street Hawthorn is a fantastically charming picturesque Gothic Revival bluestone house, that’s also really very old. Started about 1845, when it had the whole of the bend of the river as it’s grounds, I think it was then just the little symmetrical thing in … Continue reading Invergowrie, Hawthorn →

Repost 2018: A bit dominated but great - Gollin & Co, an office block at the industrial end of #bourkestreet. Built 1904, designed by #CharlesDEbro, who tended towards interesting eclecticism, this ones a bit #Queenanne, a bit #edwardianfreestyle (that #cupola). In 1989 it was incorporated into a larger office thing, designed by #PerrottLyonMathieson when Carey … Continue reading Gollin & Co →

Repost 2019: The #BnaiBrith in #HothamRoad, #EastStKilda, built in 1959, is a joint design by Ernest Fooks and Kurt Popper who both did a number of buildings for the Jewish community. At first I thought this was synagogue but it’s actually meeting rooms, B’nai Brith being a social and advocacy organisation, who have moved nearby. … Continue reading B’nai B’rith, East St Kilda →

13 September 2018: Another striking design by #PercyEverett, Chief Architect of the #PublicWorksDepartment 1934-53, where he did a LOT of colleges, this is the #WilliamAngliss food tech school in #LatrobeStreet, built 1940. A bit Dutch #BrickExpressionist, with his fave diagonal piers, and a fair amount of ribbing. Verticals vs horizontals. End pavilions kind pf brick … Continue reading William Angliss College →

14 September 2018: A church that doesn’t put its best face forward (I had to lean over a fence for this shot) but to be fair it’s one of the many churches where the #spire was #neverbuilt, which explains the blank rendered wall on the main corner. #HolyTrinityStKilda, 1883-9, #ReedandBarnes (#JosephReedArchitect) showing that Reed could … Continue reading Holy Trinity St Kilda →