Repost 2019: At the end of #AclandStreet #StKilda there’s another of those great #ArtDeco #CommowealthBank’s, though this one suffers a little from the corner bring very splayed, so the plain flanking walls dominate a bit. Nice details though. As a restaurant/cafe it also suffers from being across the road from the main shops, so there’s … Continue reading Art Deco Commonwealth Bank no 3 →

14 September 2019: This landmark passed by 10000 of cars every day is #StJohnTheEvangelist, #EastMelbourne, one of the biggest and most prominent #Romanesque style churches in Victoria, but not one Ive ever admired I have to say. Built 1929-30, designed by #WPConelly, who did many Catholic projects in the interwar years, and not the most … Continue reading St John the Evangelist x 3, East Melbourne →

Repost 2015: The remarkable towered house on #alfredcrescent #northfitzroy - actually a complete do-over of a typical 1880s #terracehouse in c1905 in an exotic melange of #artsandcrafts #artnouveau maybe some #Moorish a whole lot of #rustication and a #cupola! Designer unknown. Found interior shots from the last sale in 2015, I’m told this was the … Continue reading Grand house in Fitzroy →

Repost 2019: Neat 60s flats at 36-38 #DalgetyStreet #StKilda. Nicely composed street elevation, and they seem to be all studios, in two blocks facing each other across a heavily planted central area, which is nice (though everybody walks past your windows). There’s a few single old men living here, maybe protected low rent tenants. Not … Continue reading Studio flats in St Kilda (probably cheap) →

12 September 2019: So there was a fire in my street yesterday- it was in this 60s block of studio flats, mostly vacant but a few single older men still there - it was sold last year and a permit to replace it with 7 townhouses (of course). Saw a bunch of people wandering in … Continue reading Gentrification in Dalgety street →

Repost 2019: If you step out into #FlindersStreet and crouch down you can block out #EurekaMelbourne which otherwise pokes annoyingly out the top and just to one side.

Repost 2019: The crazy #balustrades that #EsmondDorney used on his early 1930s flat developments are the clearest link to his having worked in the office of #WalterBurleyGriffin. The flats themselves are sometimes called Prairie Style, but I think that’s a stretch. This block, Garden View, is in #BlessingtonStreet, #StKilda, built 1934. More pics 2024 19 … Continue reading Early Esmond Dorney →

Repost 2017: The #Olderfleet and #Rialtobuilding group, one of the best and most exuberant late Victorian streetscapes anywhere ever. All built between 1888-1891, all a similar height and level of detail, all Gothic except one. Almost lost in the 70s, just as #heritageconservation was taking hold, the eventual compromise being the retention of the from … Continue reading The Olderfleet – Rialto Gothic streetscape →

Repost 2019: ‘Tudor Close’ in Eildon Road #StKilda is described in the #CityOfPortPhillip #heritagestudy as ‘one of the finest and best preserved Tudor style block of flats in the city’, but no architect or date ! But they are fine, not only for the wealth of detail, #halftimbering and #battlements, but also for their oddly … Continue reading Bernard Evans Tudor →

11 September 2021 The Corkman hotel on Leicester Street Carlton, was illegally demolished over the weekend of 15-16 October 2016. The pub was built in 1856, and enlarged in 1889. photo The Age (James Bowering), photo Broadsheet 20 June 2019 So sad, the colonial era 1856 #CarltonInn aka the #CorkmanHotel is still a pile of … Continue reading Carlton Inn / Corkman hotel →