Original post 15 February 2019: Another bold church by #AugustusFritsch, St Brendan’s in Flemington, 1925. Not his most elaborate design, but might have looked better had they built the tower, like St Columba’s, Elwood, built 4 years later, last pic. Old photo @library_vic. Perhaps 1925 St Columba’s

Original post 14 February 2018: Didn’t know the back end of #HoweCrescent #SoutMelbourne had such fine big old #terracehouses. The finest one is Hazlewood Terrace, 1865 by #CharlesWebb. Quite ornate for the 1860s though, especially compared to the others here, presumably a bit later cos it was the first apparently. Real estate pics show plain … Continue reading Grand South Melbourne terraces →

Original post March 2016: A remarkable survivor, an 1850s #warehouse in the eastern end of #flinderslane in chunky #renaissancerevival style, love the #rustication. Designed (probably) by #RobertsonandHale, 1857, for Levy Brothers. There’s a very faint #ghostsign for Higson & Son; that side is #HigsonLane (which wasn’t named until the 1920s). There was another ancient fading … Continue reading Warehouse later Ryzman & Co, Flinders Lane →

Original post 13 Feb 2021: Facade as soft furnishing - a curious quilted artwork depicting #McCrackensBrewery - which once stood in #CollinsStreet, and the last part was demolished c1969 for #500CollinsStreet - where this is installed in the foyer - behind a column ! (My memory is it was once straight ahead). Someone once told … Continue reading McCrackens City Brewery, Collins Street →

Original post 13 February 2022: The Great Western Hotel in King Street was built in 1861, but missed out on heritage listing until it was included in the latest review, but then excluded because there was already a demolition permit 😢 - then they compromised by keeping just two facades. Then a new developer and … Continue reading Great Western Hotel facadism →

12 February 2023 The former Women’s Hospital Carpark, Grattan Street, Carlton, designed by Mockridge Stahle & Mitchell and built in 1974 is rather good architecture, from the soft end of Brutalism. Recommend for heritage listing, generating some local opposition, of course. I’ve always quite liked it, the rounded edges in board marked concrete, the fawn … Continue reading Brutalist car park heritage listing →

Original post 12 February 2018: Dr Barrett’s house, 1867, designed by #WHEllerker, #HoweCrescent, #SouthMelbourne. Unusual #minimansion, with a tower, but not too tall, and portico, but not too deep. In the 80s and 90s this was the home of the @institute_of_architects_vic, which I always thought was odd, i mean not only not in town, but … Continue reading Dr Barrett’s house, South Melbourne →

Original post 12 February 2019: Just discovered that the #ACAbuilding in Queen Street has a twin in on Sydney ! On Market Street. How did I not know that? Though not exactly a twin. Ours was built in 1936, the Sydney one in 1938, both by Sydney architects #HennessyAndHennessy, both pink, vertical, most details the … Continue reading ACA building Queen Street twin →

Original lost 12 February 2021: Repost this day 2021: One of the finest Greek Temple style buildings in 19thC Melbourne - great flowing Ionic capitals and richly carved Brutish coat of arms in the pediment- but demolished a loooooong time ago! 135 years. So I’m not going to say what a pity. The Oriental Bank … Continue reading Oriental Bank, long time gone. →

Original post 11 Feb 2021: Pleased to report (belatedly) that the proposal to create a cafe by inserting a mezzanine and infilling the stage area of the 1938 Nicholas Hall next to the Wesley Church on Lonsdale Street was refused by Heritage Victoria in August last year - they did not agree that that the … Continue reading Nicholas Hall restaurant refused →