Original post 7 February 2020 Photos 20 November 2019 The delightfully named Venezia Court has just enough going on to justify the exotic moniker - there’s some sort of #VenetianGothic #pointedarches, and a bit of crenellation on the rear stair tower, but then it goes all classical for the entries, and there’s Art Deco ceiling … Continue reading Venezia Court, St Kilda, 1934
Original post 1 November 2019 Photos 8 October 2019 In the middle of the landmark 19thC #OldTreasuryBuilding there’s this staircase, added by #PercyEverett I think in the late 40s, and it’s great ! A symphony of curved plaster and timber. Not sure if it replaced an earlier one or what, it’s next to the lift … Continue reading Stair sculpture at the Old Treasury
Original post 6 February 2020 If you look up you can see it says MYER, in a very groovy font. Built in 1936 in #BerkeleyStreet in #SouthCarlton, designed by Myers fave architects #TompkinsAndTompkins. This was added to the even bigger 1928 brick building next door. Not nearly as big as the Myer stores themselves, but … Continue reading Myers ‘despatch’ in Carlton
First posted Instagram 5 February 2020 This hasn’t changed appearance since the 70s, back then it was just ‘chinese food’, and now it gets 5 stars. A Victorian shop with an open verandah above like that is pretty rare, only one on a corner I can think of; though it’s possible the 50s/60s shopfront replaced … Continue reading Unusual Victorians in Collingwood on opposite corners
First posted Instagram 4 February 2020 Everybody’s favourite, this is Belmont in #JohnstonStreetCollingwood, looking very Colonial. This is because partly it is, the ground level anyway, built in bluestone in 1857 right on the street, with a few steps protruding onto the footpath, apparently because it was outside the area governed by the first building … Continue reading Colonial in Collingwood
Original post 2 November 2019 Photos 1 October 2019 #LaurensHouse in #LonsdaleStreet is a building that just wasn’t highlighted until the @nationaltrustvic started doing a review of CBD post war stuff a few years ago, and I said (or maybe it was someone else) said what about this one with the 50s #pinktiles? Turns out … Continue reading Cute tiled postwar office block by – Harry Bloom (!)
April 2026 The Presgrave Building, #littlecollinsstreet, #MarcusBarlow, 1935/7, a bit of fine Streamlined Moderne (a subset of Art Deco) doing a good job of standing out in this narrow street, with a curved banded corner on #howeyplace and a bit of a tower motif. Though the horizontal speedlines turn the corner then abruptly stop. Marcus … Continue reading The Presgrave Building
First posted Instagram 3 Nov 2019. 😮 This #colourscheme on the old #AngusAndRobertson building on #ElizabethStreet has just been revealed (thanks for the photo @tristan_davies) - it’s cheery but so very wrong ! Apparently it’s some kind of mistake, and they (not sure who, but @plusarchitecture are moving in) certainly didn’t get a heritage permit. … Continue reading NOT heritage colours, Elizabeth Street
2 February 2025 Photos of what’s now Collingwood Yards in Johnston Street I took in 2014 and 2020, plus two recent ones. Fabulous striking entry, with an arched rising sun motif, and scalloped brickwork above, a fine effort by Public Works chief architect Percy Everett, completed in 1939 as the Collingwood Technical School. It is … Continue reading Collingwood Tech, 1938
First posted Instagram 3 Feb 2020, updated 2026 Went to the #TammieBrown show yesterday (hilarious) so of course snapped the #KeithHaringMural, which is looking fine. He painted it in 1984 on a big blank side wall, with the help of the students. He was just hitting his peak fame at the time, with his unique … Continue reading Keith Haring mural Collingwood, 1984
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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