7 March 2023: Demolished in 2021, this building in Russell Street wasn’t the most exciting architecture, but was on the edge of a pretty intact precinct, and almost got listed but unfortunately too late. Long owned and occupied by the Theosophical Society, it was built in 1923 for Russell Investments as a rental office building, … Continue reading Russel Street – ex car showroom →

Original post 8 March 2019: Remember the huge fuss about demolishing the Art Deco #LonsdaleHouse back in 2010 ? For that glassy thing on the left, which they said they absolutely had to have to make #TheEmporium viable? They also facaded the three other buildings on their site, and these two came up rather well, … Continue reading Nahum Barnet x 2 →

Original post 8 March 2019: PawsonHouse, #FlindersLane,1935, #TompkinsAndTompkins. I had a studio here in c1990 in the attic, which was almost a corrugated iron shed on the roof, maybe once a caretakers, we could get out onto the actual roof though, it was great! Now seems to be all rebuilt. @ Tessuti So glad to … Continue reading Pawson House, Flinders Lane →

Original post 8 March 2018: That fabbo #mansard roofed shop next to #BalaclavaStation, don’t know the exact history but whoever built it wanted their shop to stand out - and come to think of it the rail line was raised in the 1880s, so this roof was always seen from this angle. It might have … Continue reading Billiard Hall, Carlisle Street, Balaclava →

Original post 7 March 2017: FultonLane, #FenderKatsalidis, completed June 2016. Franklin St front. I like that it's timber and greenery, though it is odd seeing such natural materials dominating, and on such a scale. FultonLane, #FenderKatsalidis (someone else's photo), but I wanted to show that the folded spandrel panels and the glazing are very shiny … Continue reading Fulton Lane (but it’s a building not a lane) →

Original post 7 March 2019: #Building4 at #RMIT, the first big workshop, and the second purpose built venue, designed in a fairly elaborate #GothicRevival style in 1890 by #OakdenAddisonandKemp, who had done #Building1 (#FrancisOrmondBuilding) a few years before in a bolder, simpler Gothic. The interior is all original no-frills exposed structure of #castiron columns and … Continue reading RMIT 1890 workshops →

Original post 6 March 2017: Beaut little Edwardian villa, or maybe 'transitional', since as well as the typically Edwardian form, details and materials, it's got a Victorian #slateroof, #tessalatedtile path and #castironfence. Behind the #hedge, you can admire the unusual #greentile #dado, the rose garden, and the classical urns, possibly added by European migrants in … Continue reading Edwardian in Fitzroy →

That house with the turret on Lansell Road that stands out whether driving through Toorak is up for sale, so here’s a post that’s all real estate photos. Called Darnlee, it was built in 1899, and is an elaborate and unusual example of Edwardian, a style which emerged pretty much the year before, and quickly … Continue reading Darnlee, Toorak, 1899 →

Original post 5 Feb 2017: MelbourneExhibitionCentre (obvs). #DentonCorkerMarshall, 1996. That blade thing, biggest entry marker evah. #Deconstructivist or #Postmodern ???

6 December 2016: Ye Olde Mitre Tavern in #BankPlace, looking like a bit of Merrie Auld England in 1972. Lots of stories attach to this place, probably because it’s an odd little house sized building in a tight lane surrounded by older but much taller buildings, but few are true. It’s said to be one … Continue reading Mitre Tavern, Bank Place →