😮 repost 2015 : A c1972 proposed government office building just after they had purchased #tasmaterrace, and intended to #demolish it. The Catholic Ladies College and Unitarian Church behind Tasma had just been demolished, and so had St Patrick’s College behind the Cathedral - which it would have totally it would have dominated even the … Continue reading Tasma Terrace almost demolished →

Repost this day 2018: The house I grew up in, 58 Broadway, Camberwell. That was my attic bedroom window. A street of all Edwardian villas developed between 1900 and 1915, only one 30s house, now replaced. Leafy eastern suburbs, I guess I didn’t realise how privileged we were but back then, it was just an … Continue reading 58 Broadway Camberwell →

5 August 2021 Park Mansions, #ParkStreetSouthYarra, one of the earliest flat developments in Melbourne - I think - can’t find out much for certain! Earliest ads are from 1913, which makes it 3 years after #FawknerMasions, the oldest extant flats - but it seems it was more like a boarding house, with rooms and suites … Continue reading Park Mansions, 1913 →

Repost this day 2018, then two from a couple of weeks ago (all very edited): The #AssemblyHall was built in 1915, next to #ScotsChurch, designed by #HHKemp in a suitably Gothic style, complete with tower, to complement the 1874 church. It includes a hall for the ‘assembly’ of the Scots Church, and I’m sure rented … Continue reading Assembly Hall, 1915 →

This stylish thing on #DomainRoadSouthYarra caught my eye- such thin concrete edges, and slim balcony framing, much finer detailing than you normally see. Turns out it’s a luxury boutique hotel called United Places, designed by @carr_au, opened in 2018. First two photos mine, rest from various reviews and websites - I quite like the black … Continue reading Fine modernist revival, Domain Road, 2018 →

The Tilba, on #ToorakRoadWest in #SouthYarra, a great essay in the QueenAnne/Edwardian love of corners, with a complete tower and open belvedere turret. Built in 1907, the architect was William H Webb, and it seems to have become a private hotel / guest house rather than a family home, a function it maintained until 2006 … Continue reading Tilba, Toorak Road West, 1907 →

August 2021 The Adderley, a delightful turreted corner shop (and 1st floor residence) dominating what was once called Elwood Junction, where Broadway, Glenhuntly and Ormond Roads meet. It was built in 1921, and designed by #NahumBarnet (he got around !). Across the corner there was another striking building, the Maison Deluxe Dance Palais; these and … Continue reading Elwood Junction →

Repost 2018 (but 2nd photo this year): Totally #bronzed; the #VictorianAutomobileChamberofCommerce, not sure possibly base early 60s, top 1970, bronze coloured windows (some kind of copper inclusion) and brown painted steel. The ONLY 50s/60s office block left on #StKildaRoad of any note, partly because the #VACC have never left, and partly because it’s the only … Continue reading VACC St Kilda Road →

3 August 2014 : The super stylish Beaurepaire Centre at #melbourneuniversity; used for training during the #melbourneolympics in 1956 but not officially opened until 1957. Designed by Eggleston MacDonald & Secomb, it features jaunty abstract patterned tiling by Leonard French, who also painted the futurist style mural over the rounded feature thing in the gym … Continue reading Beaurepaire Pool →