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 →

Original post 21 March 2019: Just wrote an article about how there’s only one #oldlift left in the #MelbCBD that isn’t #heritagelisted (in #PawsonHouse) and just found this one ! Maybe won’t be round much longer, but it’s there. In what was the #ESandABank in the corner of Eliz & #LaTrobeStreet, built in 1928, designed … Continue reading Fairly intact lobby and lift – oops all gone. →

Original post 20 March 2019: Nice to see this #gatekeepers cabin is still there, next to #BrunswickStation, albeit slowly rotting away. Built 1888 for the man who sat there all day opening and closing the #railwaygates, then pulling on the levers inside to signal (via rods and chains) the next gatekeeper to close or open … Continue reading Gatekeepers had cabins…. →