14 July 2021 The Malthouse in Southbank was built in 1892 for the #CastlemaineBrewery (their brew tower is over on Queensbridge Street). In 1986 the building was gifted to the Playbox Theatre Co, which took a while to find the restoration and conversion (leaving a lot of great structure inside), opening as the Malthouse Theatre … Continue reading Malthouse Theatre
Repost this day 2017 new photos 2018: Always thought this very unusual thing on #PuntRoad was an old funeral parlour, but no it was built as a church, in 1939 ! The #ApostolicChurch (an English Pentecostal movement apparently). May explain why looks like a wild gothicish theatre or public building rather than a church, plus … Continue reading Expressionist Gothic
16 September 2018: #PublicToilet as rustic sculpture, one of the best things @WoodMarsh ever did; #ladies have the curved roof, #gents have the square block. #StKildaBotanicalGardens, 1993. First three pics 2024
12 July 2021 Very stylish little thing on #SturtStreetSouthMelbourne; thought it would be anonymous but no, the nice #PeterWille photo at @library_vic identifies it as offices for Burston Brothers, who ran the Malthouse next door, built 1956, and designed by #YunckenFreeman, who went on in the 60s to become refined modernists using expressed steel frames … Continue reading Miesian box in Southbank
Repost this day 2018: you’ll never guess what’s in here ! It’s called the ‘#PaintFrame’ at #HerMajestysTheatre, sticking out from the side - a fabbo very tall thin structure in which whole theatre backdrops were painted by scenic artists, some on the floor below, getting dripped on by those on the floor above; the backdrop … Continue reading Brick wall – paint frame
@theageaustralia rang me to do an article about ‘all the abandoned buildings’ but I said there weren’t that many - but it made me make a list, I’ve got 6 as well as the ex Barclay hotel in previous post - they’re mostly in the retail area, and the rent on the shops is enough … Continue reading Abandoned above the ground floor
In #LittleLonsdale near King Street - a case of facadism, but not because it was heritage listed! Guess they decided they couldn’t design anything better. This little industrial building was built in 1923, and in 2017 a permit was issued for a hotel, which has recently been changed into an office tower (given the current … Continue reading Industrial disguise
9 July 2018: The fabbo #AuditoriumBuilding, #NahumBarnet, 1913, so named cos it was built like the Chicago one with offices above, privately funded concert hall below. Built by the Tait theatrical family, it didn’t really pay for itself, became a cinema by 1915, completely rebuilt as the Metro Collins 1935, closed in the 70s, then … Continue reading Auditorium Building, facadism
15 August 2018 The lovely slightly exotic #TheosophicalBuilding, #MarshandMichaelson, 1936, beautiful stone facade, with Egyptian style columns, a bit patchy though. The Theosphists, a kind of esoteric religion, sold up in c1970, when the @CityofMelbourne bought it along with the Regent planning to replace both with a high rise hotel to help pay for the … Continue reading Theosophical Society, 1937
A pair of large and unusually styled terraces in#ClarendonStreetEastMelbourne; built in 1908 and designed by #GraingerKennedyAndLittle (that’s John Grainger, engineer and architect, and Percy’s father). The East Melb Historical Society says they were built as flats, but I can’t find any evidence of that, plus there’s only one door. Two more but narrower were added … Continue reading Edwardian terraces, East Melbourne
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
Storey of Melbourne 