9 June 2024 #Peeking out behind some magnificent Lemon Scented Gums is #Torloisk, an 1883 #RenaissanceRevival #MelbourneMansion squeezed onto a relatively small corner block in that bit of #EastMelbourne on the south side of Wellington Pde, near Hoddle. It addresses both streets and especially the corner, and unusually its three floors, ending up rather vertical. … Continue reading Torloisk, Jolimont →

Repost 2018: I took a snap, and it matches ! I guess an obvious spot. A favourite postcard view since the #ManchesterUnityBuilding was completed in 1932. The Town Hall #clocktower was completed 60 years earlier in 1872. 1930s193419501950s

26 July 2021 A fine bit of #latemodernism, probably early 1980s, just slick aluminium panels and mirror glass windows. I think if it was in the CBD, it would be better known and appreciated, but here in B class office land, you just go past. No 468. Photos 2025 2021 2021 I kind of admired … Continue reading Late Modern in St Kilda Road →

24 July 2024 Collins Street Baptist Church, designed by Reed &Barnes, completed in 1862. Heritage Victoria describes it as “modelled on a Roman temple and is Reed’s finest and purest achievement in the giant Corinthian Order”, and it is pretty impressive and delicately detailed. Set on a raised podium, with quite a few steps, like … Continue reading Collins Street Baptist Church, Central House, and shop →

Repost 2018: #Balencea, #WoodMarsh, 2013, very striking. The scalloped curves are great, with the sharp points seen in their work from the 90s, but here in reflective glass; like so many towers from then on, a pretty slick skin, with balconies inset rather than attached. Sheer glass from inside. Proportions helped by the fact that … Continue reading Curves in St Kilda Road →

Repost 2014: #walkhamhouse, Swanston Street, opposite the University, definitely 1880s, likely #NormanHitchcock, a builder-designer. It's like fully #vermiculated. Even the #scrolledbracket things are pierced. Nice to see all the #acroteria and #antefixae in place, highlighting that little #pediment.

27 July 2018: A sort of plain #StKildaRoadMansion called Redholme, built 1896, and designed by the pretty prolific #JohnBeswicke (who had done the Gothic Bendigonia 13 years earlier a few blocks away on Queens Road). It’s very much the Edwardian/#QueenAnne style a few years before it got really popular; also unusual that its 1896, nothing … Continue reading Redholme, St Kilda Road →

Repost this day 2017: This crumbling #cornershop has looked like this as long as I can remember. Taking the #distressedlook to extremes. 2021 update : sold in 2019, and turns out it was part of a big L shape site with equally untouched building on Highett St, was owned by the Pearce family, who ran … Continue reading Crumbling in Richmond →

Repost this day 2018: Repost 2018: Ulimaroa, another nice #StKildaRoadMansion, built 1890, attributed to JAB Koch ‘on stylistic grounds’, but might have been by #LeonardJFlannagan. Your typical towered Victorian mansion with return cast iron verandah, but with an extra set of bay windows, and a bit more detailing than most, like the nice cast iron … Continue reading Ulimaroa, St Kilda Road →

26 July 2018: Repost 2018, updated : Little Milton, 1926; an impressive Toorak mansion, not little at all ! Built c1926 in Old English style in Albany Road for SJ Moran of Moran & Cato grocers. Didn’t realise that it was notable not only as a fine design, but because it was by a ‘woman … Continue reading A woman architect in Toorak, 1926 →