Suburban high rise - three high rise #apartmenttowers in #BoxHill, with more to come. Strange juxtaposed but I don’t mind downtown Box Hill becoming a high rise living district, there’s a train station, tram line, buses, shops, TAFES and hospitals etc. There’s about 6 more high rise planned and another 10 mid rise.

The fabbo if dilapidated #APMboilerhouse (actually #powerhouse) in #Fairfield which I tried to make waves about exactly a year ago (#SaveAPM !), after the Minister overturned #HeritageVictoria’s recommendation to list it. Thought it would be gone by now to make way for yet more apartments in a development that’s going to have 2500 of them. … Continue reading APM Power House hanging on…. →

December 2018 Labassa, Caulfield, what we see dates from c1890, designed by German born architect #JABKoch for #CobbandCo magnate Alexander Robertson in a full-on #HighVictorian, with lots of delicate, rich detailing on an otherwise fairly typical #VictorianMansion form, a couple of bay windows joined by a #returnverandah, which is arcaded on both floors- there is … Continue reading A truly grand mansion : Labassa, Caulfield, 1890 →

No 1 #UpperEsplanade, #StKilda; not my favourite #blockofflats but it’s an interesting design, giving everyone a view.... if you sit on the balcony, which all get a bit of sun too in the late afternoons. Anyone know the architect and date ? @stylisticspecies ?

#StJamesGlenIris, #BogleBanfield, 1959, Melbourne’s most minimalist modernist church, and therefore the one that architects like the most. Originally it had #concrete screens with cross cutouts, making it (somewhat) more obviously a church, but they were removed c2005, leaving a brick box with inset black windows. (The nearby #Korowa girls school has a section of the … Continue reading St James, Glen Iris, 1959 →

November 2018: This is the Tennis Pavilion at Labassa, a very rare thing indeed, since similar garden things from other large mansion estates are long gone. It was probably added when Alexander Robertson revamped the house to what we see today in 1890, and probably designed by JAB Koch, who did the house. The tennis … Continue reading Tennis anyone ? Labassa pavilion 1890. →

#AugustusFritsch really went to town on this one, his first major church, #StJosephsMalvern, built 1908-8. He did at least one earlier design that was boldly red & white (‘#bloodandbandages’), a bit more Edwardian, this one a mad combo of #Romanesque with stepped Flemish gables and #Baroque domed turrets; the @nationaltrustvic listing notes it’s part of … Continue reading Another Fritsch – St Joseph’s, Malvern, 1908. →

I do love a good suburban #MockTudor #PetrolStation- especially converted into a cafe ! Built in #GlenEiraRoad in 1935 (with attached shops and residence) as the Tudor Service Station, renamed #GloversServiceStation in 1961 apparently - maybe they changed the word Tudor to Glover ? Anyway, great details, chunks of ‘exposed’ bricks, some ‘cracks’ in the … Continue reading Mock Tudor Petrol Station →

#StKildaTownHall toilets have #floortiles in #StKildaFootballClub colours ! (At least the men’s do). This is in the #postmodern section by #ARMarchitecture from 1994. #PeterCorrigan did the same thing 2 years earlier at #RMITbuilding8, though he did different clubs on different floors and not so obviously.

The #iceskating girl #neonsign up on a wall in the lobby of the #StKildaTownHall that I went to the launch of last month has quite a history. One of two put up on the 1922 dance hall building on the #UpperEsplanade when it was converted into the #StMoritzIceSkating rink in 1939; It closed and was … Continue reading St Moritz Skating Girl skates on ! →