drivebyshooting; #ChristChurchSouthYarra, Toorak Road, created in two main stages; nave, transepts, chancel, tower base in 1856-9 by Webb & Taylor, with aisles, sanctuary and the bulk of the tower added over the period 1881-9 to the design of Reed Henderson & Smart (not sure if following the earlier design). The @nationaltrustvic says : “The most … Continue reading Christ Church South Yarra →

November 2019, new pics from August: Christ Church Brunswick, on Glenlyon Rd, a great and unusually styled church built over many stages, and with that tower, ochre limewash and the cypresses looks like it could be Tuscany (maybe). The nave, with its square side windows and gothic front ones, is early, 1857, by #PurchasAndSwyer (that’s … Continue reading Christ Church Brunswick →

27 May 2019 : This is the old #CityOfSunshine offices and chamber, competed in 1967 awaiting redevelopment - @kalaia17 kindly offered some closeups for everyone’s enjoyment! I’ve added some real estate pics. It was designed by #StuartWarmington, who went on to do more in Sunshine but nothing much else, but the #DalleDeVerre #stainedglass panel that … Continue reading City of Sunshine offices →

The #ThornburyPictureHouse is a small cinema cum bar in an old garage ! The very early kind that was a drive through on a corner, with an office or residence upstairs, back when petrol still came in cans, and they poured it in for you (I think). The TPH website says it was built in … Continue reading Garage cum Cinema in Thornbury →

Rather elegant bit of design in #HighStreetThornbury from c1970 I’m guessing. A social hall for the United Villages of Florina, that being a town in northern Greece. Update : I’m told by a local it was a State Bank, and it looks more like a bank than a social club, so I guess they bought … Continue reading Modernism in Thornbury →

Repost from March 2018; plus current sale images of the penthouse owned by John Denton of #dentoncorkermarshall, who’s owned it since 1991, and I’ve been to a party there, possibly that year, I don’t recall ! He bought it with #MorrySchwartz (#AnnaSchwartz took the ground floor as her gallery). They also bought the building next … Continue reading Flinders Lane penthouse →

10 September 2019 : The delightful #SapphireHouse, in #CrossleyStreet. Not protected until 2016 when #BourkeHill #heritageprecinct was reviewed. Built 1957 for the #Hurwitz family jewellers and traders, with the ground floor rented to Pellegrinis until the 90s as a larger (more expensive) serve yourself affair. The building hasn’t changed, entry looks original too, including #terrazzo, … Continue reading Mid century in a city lane →

Repost this day 2018 (about something nearly 10 years old now): Building/Sculpture; the concrete knot that #ARMarchitecture added in 2012 to the #MelbourneArtsCentre, which actually houses an outdoor/indoor lift. At first I thought it was going to be too big/distracting, but it isnt really, and makes an interesting foil to the perfect geometry of the … Continue reading Hamer Hall concrete lift →

Yet another #losttheatre that nearly made it through - the #MetroCollins was created in 1934 in Collins Street by completely rebuilding the 1913 concert hall that gave the Auditorium Building its name (but was a complete failure showing films from 1914). The cinema was designed by #CNHollinshead, same year he rebuilt Her Maj in Art … Continue reading Metro Collins, 1934-82 →

May 2021 Another #losttheatre, but it hung on longer than most - until 1983!- and if it had hung on a bit longer ? Built as the #HoytsRegent in Johnson Street Fitzroy just off Brunswick Street, it opened in 1931 as one of the largest suburban cinemas, seating 2000, and one of the most luxurious, … Continue reading Regent Theatre, Fitzroy, 1931-83. →