Original post 27 February 2020 Repost 2020: St Kilda still surprises - another hidden mansion ! Behind the Spanish style flats at 39 #AclandStreet, there’s a completely intact big house, pretty much the same as the one next door, no 41, but that one never got flats built in the front yard. Both built by … Continue reading Hidden heritage in St Kilda No 2
Original post 26 February 2029 Photos 21 November 2019 The area of #Collingwood around Wellington and Langdrige just keeps getting denser, to CBD fringe levels; this is an office building by #JohnWardle, it’s ok, a shiny bronze glass #curtainwall, but I read it’s supposed to be 6*, which is something. Also it’s end of trip … Continue reading Wardle x 2 in Collingwood
Original post 26 February 2020 Not ashamed to admit it - I love these guys ! The name just adds to my already great delight. Built 1909 for Richmond Theobald, tea merchant. #BridgeRoadRichmond. #TheobaldsBuildings. Very similar to a pair in Brunswick St, perhaps the sane architect.
Original post 24 February 2020 So the building the #SkippingGirlSign is on is on a separate title from the bit with the Deco tower just beyond; and it’s the closer bit that being sold soon, which is #heritagelisted, so they’ll have to keep at least 10m depth of it (preferably all of it!) but then … Continue reading Skipping Girl viewlines
Original post 25 February 2020 The Stanford Block, Bridge Road, Richmond; almost certainly 1880s, and largely untouched, not painted, not even one, maybe single owner until the 80s ? Nice #polychromebrick, even still has its knobs. Only thing is one set of windows partly bricked in, but easily reversible. Thought these might be by #JohnBeswicke, … Continue reading Stanford Block, Richmond, 1880s
Original post 25 February 2020 Cute Deco flats in #FitzroyStreetStKilda, BUT the two halves are so close together! Check out those balconies down the back, you could lean out and touch the other one ! As far as I can work out, they’re the stairs, but still, there’s lounge rooms facing each other only like … Continue reading Deco flats – bit too close for comfort
Original post 23 February 2020 This is the factory next to the factory that the #SkippingGirlSign is on, and I’m very chuffed to have just found via Trove old newspaper searches that this was built in 1938, and the architects were #AlderAndLacey. Even though I helped get the sign on the Heritage Register, nobody ever … Continue reading Not Skipping Girl, Handley & Co, designed by Alder & Lacey, 1938
15 October 2024 There’s a fantastic little precinct of mid century modern houses in Bellaire Court in Beaumaris, all developed by the same builder in a similar style, and the best news is the 8 houses were recommended for listing as part of the City of Bayside post was heritage review, approved by Council in … Continue reading Beaumaris Modern – Max Sachs
Original post 23 October 2019 Another @beaumaris_modern house from Sunday, the Bricknell House, 1952. Charles Bricknell worked for #YunckenFreeman when they were still smallish, doing modern houses after their Georgian period, and this one is full of quirks - I liked it but somehow not a lot. Great rounded timber columns allowing that full #windowwall, … Continue reading Beaumaris Modern No 4 – Bricknell House 1952
Original post 20 October 2019 Rather extraordinary house - part of the @beaumaris_modern open day that completely channels the 60s, with I think a fair dose of Sydney 60s guru #NevilleGruzman, lots of beams and black gridded #steelframedwindows. Designed by @zenibaker, complex 2016. I thought it was great ! Very livable, gardens out every window, … Continue reading Beaumaris Modern No 2 – 60s style from 2016
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