10 June 2020 #StKildaParkPrimarySchool, possibly the most compactly vertical of the many late 19thC #primaryschools built in Victoria after the 'free and compulsory' 1872 Education Act. All the schools in the first decade were #GothicRevival, mostly in #polychromebrick, getting more elaborate into the 1880s. By then they’re all said to be designed by #HenryBastow, chief … Continue reading St Kilda Park State School, 1882
Original post 12 June 2020 Photos 30 April 2018 A great little #townhouse in #NeptunePlace, a site created in about 1996 when a large office building and carpark in the middle of #StKilda was demolished and subdivided. Anyone know the architect? Update : it’s the Connolly House by #LindsayHolland, and won the top ‘Harold desbowe … Continue reading Modern Revival townhouse, Lindsay Holland, 2001.
Original post 7-8 June 2020 Photos July 2018 A great pair in #MitfordStreet, Elwood, similar proportions and both #spanishstyle - Santa Fe and Las Palmas both 1929 by builder/designer JH Soderberg. ‘Santa Fe’, #MitfordStreet, #Elwood, lovely #SpanishStyle, complete with #barleytwistcolumns to the front balconies. Sold as a lot in 2019, and looks like maybe still … Continue reading Interwar flats, Mitford Street, Elwood
Original post 7 June 2020 Photo July 2018 Until recently I wouldn’t have given this kind of block a second look, but this one at 57 Mitford Street Elwood had nice details like patterned mosaic tiles and brickwork, and wrought iron, a bit of interest on an otherwise modern design. Probably 1960s. Big windows, reasonably … Continue reading Mid Century Modern in Elwood
Original post 4 June 2020 Photos 12 August 2018 Always thought this one must’ve lost its verandah, but no it never had one. #Myoora, off #DandenongRoad in #CaulfieldNorth, was built in 1886-7 in a pretty unusual style; an eclectic combo of #Italianate and #QueenAnneStyle, and the tower has been described as Romanesque. I guess the … Continue reading Myoora, Caulfield North, 1887
Original post 3 June 2020 Photo 1 September 2019 This place on #HighStreetArmadale doesn’t look like much, but the wide front with an arch and simple detailing were clues that it might be an old cinema - which it is, in fact one of the oldest purpose built cinemas that’s still somewhat intact. The #ArmadaleTheatre … Continue reading Armadale Theatre, 1912
Original post 2 June 2020 Photos Jan 2020 If you go round the back of the College of Surgeons in Spring Street, and look into the sunken courtyard, you’ll see these random bits of #columns, which were discovered when they were digging it out in 2004 for new wings - they’re all that’s left of … Continue reading Melbourne fragments – Model School, Spring Street
Original post 1 June 2020 Photos 19 November 2019 The interior of #HamerHall is an odd combo of late 70s #SirRoyGrounds #brutalist #bushhammeredconcrete, with 1980 #JohnTruscott glam #goldleaf, #smokedglass, and leather walls, with a 2012 overlay by @armarchitecture of orange carpet, brass and angled escalators- and it works ! I remember seeing this #goldleaf at … Continue reading Hamer Hall, 80s glam.
Original post 28 May 2020 Not my pics. The #HopetounTeaRooms is up for sale, due to a failed expansion into the basement and covid19 - so of course I had to research it’s full history ! Firstly, most of what you see is 1976 pseudo Victoriana (I quite like the wallpaper, but not fussed if … Continue reading Hopetoun Tea Rooms – history corrected.
Original post 26 May 2020 Photos August 2019 I knew that the prolific ‘architect who builds’ #HowardLawson did a whole lot of blocks in the one area of #SouthYarra in 1935-40, but I didn’t realise there were like 16 of of them ! There's 4 blocks in a row along #AlexandraAvenue, #SouthYarra, Kildare, York House, … Continue reading Howard Lawson land, South Yarra, 1930s
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
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