Nov 2018 #ThingsISaved/#ThingsIdidntSave - I might be the only one who knows what these are and why they’re here - if you’ve ever looked up in the food court at Coles in #AclandStreet, you’re looking at a #heritagecompromise, #rooftrusses from what was here before put back in a different spot as a kind of feature … Continue reading St Kilda Market roof trusses →

21 November 2018 Taradale, #BrightonRoad, #Elwood, 1936, Walter Mason; went looking for this one (it’s practically in Glenhuntly!) thinking it was by Esmond Dorney - it’s got his signature #semicircular balcony projections, and great modelling overall of horizontals and verticals - but it’s not ! Don’t know much about Walter Mason except he did the … Continue reading Taradale, Elwood, 1936, not Esmond Dorney →

November 2018 My favourite bit of #streetscape in #Melbourne, a whole strip of crunchy, masonry facades, all #ragtrade #warehouses built 1898-1940. It’s the south side of #FlindersLane looking west from #SwanstonStreet. Everything is under the 99ft #heightlimit (the limit on the big streets was higher, 132ft- that limit was reimposed in 1982 thankfully). So the … Continue reading Flinders Lane streetscape is the best ! →

One of #myfavouritebuildings, the McCray & Way film company offices of 1983, down #FrancisLane in #SouthMelbourne, but #Biltmoderne, the original name of #starchitects @wood_marsh (when they had three partners). This is one of their few early works still intact. Almost the definition of #Postmodernism; a bit of #baroque and bit of #Victorian (pressed cement bosses … Continue reading Postmodern delight : McCray & Way film company, 1983, South Melbourne, Biltmoderne →

A series of excellent Victorian parapets in #clarendonstreetsouthmelbourne, a bit larger and more elaborate than usual - and there’s one with a book, must’ve been a bookshop, and another with a #wheatsheaf for a bakery ! #melbterraceparapets

Fab #CoatofArms, probably from the 1880s, well before #Federation, but it was being talked about, and designs similar to this were popular - this seems to the #MelbourneCoatofArms with a lively #emu and #kangaroo flanking. Love the extra Baroque #brokenpediment too. #ClarendonStreetSouthMelbourne.

18 November 2018: #FlindersStreetStation #tiles in the #DegravesStreetSubway all cleaned and broken ones replaced, very schmick. Second photo looks blurry but its tiles that havnt been cleaned. The new tiles are whiter, or maybe they’re old patching ? Not sure. The tiles in the toilets are more even. Very hard to exactly match old #crazedtiles. … Continue reading Flinders Street Station tiles →

This is the sort of place my mother used to call #workingmanscottage- an excellent example of a little #VictorianTerrace in #DorcasStreet, #SouthMelbourne, with intact #tuckpointing on the #polychromebrick, Victorian colour scheme, even a good plain #picketfence, rather than an overly ornate one. Probably intact because it’s on the #EmeraldHillEstate, the whole block that was was … Continue reading Lovely brick cottage, South Melbourne →

14 November 2018 Monaco House, #McBrideCharlesRyan, 2007; a crinkled corner pointing up to the sky on a tiny side lane, love it; and now that I look it up properly, I want to see inside too ! Pretend I’m emigrating to Monaco ? Cute little pop of purple, a signature colour of theirs. A bit … Continue reading Origami Architecture →

November 2018 😮 Went looking for St Kiernan flats on the #OrmondEsplanade, designed by #EsmondDorney, and built in 1939 - and found this ! Got a permit 2 years ago to ‘restore to 30s grandeur with new apartments with beach views’ but the one-line planning permission I found didn’t say ‘keep only three exterior walls’ … Continue reading Just a facade : St Kiernan flats, Elwood. →