Original post 26 March 2021: What I’d like to know is, given the whole history of everything great ever built is easily available, why do McMansions get it so wrong ? This one I saw a couple of years ago surprisingly at the end of a #BickhamsCourt, #EastStKilda, a cul de sac of 60s modernist … Continue reading McMansion in East St Kilda →

Original post 23 March 2020: The history and future of the Melb uni student union has come up, and now I look, it seems incredible that in 1968-70, 'they' (architects Egglestone Secomb McDonald) demolished most of the 1863 National Museum, by Reed & Barnes - but they did ! This is 13 years after the … Continue reading Student Union, Melbourne University →

Original post 24 March 2019: So, in 2017 there was a plan to build a 20 storey tower right here across the #railwaylines in #ChapelStreetWindsor - but #VCAT said no, fortunately; Council luckily had a policy that the low scale of the heritage-listed #shoppingstrip was important - otherwise …. @ Windsor railway station, Melbourne Update … Continue reading Windsor development over rail line →

Original post 23 March 2014: A third #wightandlucas branch for Melbourne Savings Bank in #queensparadecliftonhill. Built #1889. According to the Miles Lewis index might be 4 more beyond the 4 I already know about. So luck great chunky Mannerist detail.

Original post 23 March 2017: The #QueenVictoriaMarket #Munrosite redevelopment render released by council (compare with my terrible sketch next post) - design of #apartmenttower by #BatesSmart, much more faceted than their slick glassy stuff of late, corner community facilities by #SixDegrees, which is nicely broken down volumetrically, though the preserved Art Deco corner facade is … Continue reading Munro site, Queen Victoria Market →

Original post 23 March 2020: Unusually richly elaborated #shoptops in #BridgeRoadRichmond, near Burnley St; same window keystone detail - with lady faces instead of keystones as another shop up on the hill, so probably the same builder or architect. The row was originally red #facebrick but they’ve all been painted differently, the fate of nearly … Continue reading Shop tops in Bridge Road Richmond →

Original post 23 March 2014: Only #housingcommision towers built in brick (1969). Heard it was built as private then bought by commssion but I think just #urbanmyth to explain why its not pebbledash #precast like all the others. From Johnston Street Fitzroy From Nicholson Street to the northeast. (one hiding the other) 28 November 2024 … Continue reading Housing Commission estate on Elgin Street, Carlton →

Original post 23 March 2015: National Bank of Australasia, 1887, by #albertpurchas, in Victoria Street Collingwood. A fine example of restrained #renaissancerevival. Unlike almost everything else in the boom years of the 1880s, many of grand banks were not overly elaborate. So not really my fave style, but they are impressive, and theres a lot … Continue reading Classical bank, Collingwood →

Original post 23 March 2017: Love the completely worn and scratched big ole #timberposts of the original 1878 sheds of the #QueenVictoriaMarket. If these are all dismantled, a basement dug, and put back again, as proposed, I hope they look exactly the same. BTW the market is such a simple open structure because it was … Continue reading Queen Victoria Market →

Original post 22 March 2021: These are only realestate pics, but im posting this house in #LansellRoad #Toorak, because in the 90s, when I was at the @nationaltrustvic, it was going to be replaced by flats, and @stonningtoncitycouncil wouldn’t act, then many years later I discovered that was still there and in fact restored rather … Continue reading Walter Butler ‘bungalow’ in Toorak →