Original post 28 Jan 2018: #MelbourneCityBaths, 1902-4, design by #JJClark with his son #EJClarke. Delightful #redbrick stripy Edwardian (“#bloodandbandages”), with #EnglishBaroque details, and Clark’s favoured Tudory #turrets and #domes. JJ’s first design was the old treasury building 42 years previously when he was just 19. Great plan, filling the triangular site. Note the rooms at … Continue reading City Baths
Can we just talk about how truly terrible the architecture of the Westin Hotel is ? It was built as part of a deal with David Marriner that saw the City Square reduced by half, and restoration of the Regent Theatre, and it opened in c2000. The architects were Desmond Brooks International (a resort specialist … Continue reading The woeful Westin Hotel
Pleased to hear that Heritage Victoria have said no to the further compromise of the beaut and important 1890 Goods Shed in Docklands. It was already chopped into 2 by the Collins Street extension, then 10 years ago they allowed buildings to block views of the two parts from Collins Street - but they’ve not … Continue reading Dockland Goods Shed saved – again
Original post 2016: Repost from 2016: So who remembers the 'Green Latrine' ? Perhaps few of you, since this huge unloved modernist government building on the Spring Street / Latobe Street corner opposite the Carlton Gardens was demolished in the late 1980s. It was notable for its great scale and early date, the first stage … Continue reading Green Latrine
Looks like a row of Victorian houses, but most of what you see in the first photo is 1980s or later, reflecting how so many houses and even flats along the waterfront have been altered and added to. I think this started off as a row of 7 single storey houses, built late 1890s, the … Continue reading Victorian – actual and not in Beaconsfield Parade
Very nice building in #ClarendonStreetSouthMelbourne, which was clearly a bank. Heritage studies in this area are old and so individual places like this havnt been researched, but three minutes on Trove and I found it ! Built for the Bank of Victoria in 1883, architect WS Law, and described as ‘one of the handsomest new … Continue reading Handsome Bank in Clarendon Street
Original post 17 Jan 2018: Yes that is a Chinese style roof, which you’ve probably noticed on the east side of #PuntRoad, cnr Gordon Grove (snapped from the bus). It was designed by #ArthurPurnell as his own house in 1928, which he called Shan Teng. Purnell lived and worked in Hong Kong, then Canton (now … Continue reading Chinese style in Punt Road
Anzac Station tram stop in St Kilda Road - open but not at all finished. I like it! Lovely curves, lots of wood (‘glulam’ beams maybe 2m deep?) in a diagonal grid, some skylights, some bright green. However - it’s so high that it won’t keep much weather out; the from city trams will stop … Continue reading Anzac Station tram stop (ex Domain Interchange)
Original post Jan 2018: This wild curved pyramid roofed church has been sitting here on #HighStreetRoad #MtWaverley since 1963, when it was built for the independent #NewChurchinVictoria, designed by architect Alex Harris. It’s a plan of intersecting squares, two on the diagonal, the third being the hall, but that roof ! Sort of #polynesian or … Continue reading New Church, Mt Waverley, 1963
The tower of Lonsdale House, sadly demolished in 2010 for the Emporium, despite local heritage listing - probably the last really big heritage issue to galvanise Melburnians. It was created in 1936 out of two Victorian buildings, and designed by #IGAnderson. He also did #Dorijo in East Melbourne I recently posted, which has a similar … Continue reading Lonsdale House
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
Storey of Melbourne 