Original post 8 August 2019: Great #Edwardian house on #AclandStreetStKilda, corner Jackson Street, renovation work finished, and I’ve got pics from when they started early last year - only change is restoring a bit of the verandah, and blocking off the side entry stair. They actually demolished and rebuilt the brick fence, which was leaning … Continue reading Edwardian restoration St Kilda
#StGeorgesPresbyterian, Chapel Street #EastStKilda, designed by #AlbertPurchas and built in two stages, nave and tower 1877, transepts and sanctuary 1880. Most interesting thing Purchas did in his long career from the 1850s to the 1890s. Here he’s taken Joseph Reed’s #LombardicRomanesque and applied it to a #GothicRevival form, but with the stripes that Butterfield liked, … Continue reading St George’s Presbyterian, East St Kilda
Back when #NondaKatsalidis was doing exciting stuff - his #RichmondSilo project at 22 Abinger Street in 1996 was the first time someone had done a conversion of a disused #silo (though actually the front half is new) - it was the talk of the town, I remember it was rumoured that Kylie Minogue had a … Continue reading Silo Apartments Richmond
October 2018 Mosspennoch, #EastMelbourne, looking fine now that it’s all restored and subdivided neatly into mansion flats; my first pic is from 2015 when it was still just empty as it had been for 20 years. They built a mid rise block of flats (by #BatesSmart) in what was garden but, after wanting to knock … Continue reading Mosspennoch, East Melbourne
11 October 2017: #LostMelbourne (well, there's bits left) #ClivedenMansion was built 1887-88, designed by #WilliamWardell for ‘Australia’s only Baronet’ Sir William Clarke, with the usual 20 bedrooms, ballroom, and craftsmen brought out from Italy to do the marble and stuff. In 1909 became luxury flats with an added floor, then demolished in 1968 for Melbourne’s … Continue reading Cliveden Mansion
October 2018 Repost 2018: Check out what’s inside ! Hidden behind 60s flats at 40 Alma Road, St Kilda, there’s this mansion. Called Rhianva, later Shirley, built 1868 for David Rosenthal, jewellery merchant, part of the early concentration of well-off Jewish peeps in St Kilda starting in the 1850s. The architects were Crouch & Wilson, … Continue reading Hidden St Kilda mansion
This article appeared in Spirit of Progress, Journal of the Art Deco and Modernism Society of Australia, Autumn 2016 As an architecture student in the 1980s, we were taught that the first fully bona-fide Art Deco building in Melbourne was the delightful Yule House designed b Oakley & Parkes, in Little Collins Street. Five storeys … Continue reading When Art Deco arrived in Victoria
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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