21 September 2016: My favourite house built for the #ministryofhousing’s #infillhousingprogram; it’s by #NormanDay, c1983, in #stgeorgesroad #northfitzroy, just where it meets Brunswick Street. Classical references in simple suburban materials - a giant #splitpediment in #redbrick, atop a formal inset square of #creambrick that curves inward for a little #baroque inflection, with vestigial pipe columns … Continue reading Ministry of Housing infill program 1980s →

18 September 2015: #Atlas. Featuring #Australia prominently on his shoulders. Relocated from the top of the 19th century building here at 404 #collinsstreet when it was replaced in the late 50s by a new #atlasinsurance building. Sadly a bit high up to appreciate, and backed by an aircon intake. Moved here (a second time) from … Continue reading Atlas Insurance, Collins Street →

Repost 2017: #ManchesterUnity, #MarcusBarlow, built within 12 months in 1932, symbol of hope in the depths of the #GreatDepression, #firstescalators, #tallesttower (actually not, but certainly best known) etcetera, but #hardtophotograph since it faces partly south, and the #streettrees have grown around it…so which one is best ? 20 December 2017: The rather excellent but somewhat … Continue reading Manchester Unity Building →

Repost 2018: The excellent thoroughly #OTT #hoghvictorian #WustermannBuildings in #BridgeRoadRichmond. I presume c1890. Possibly #JABKoch since he was German as I presume mr Wustermann was, but there’s also German American #WilliamWolf. Update : no it was built c1901, so not by Wolf since hed left by then, but could still be Koch. Further update thanks … Continue reading Elaborate Edwardian in Bridge Road →

Repost 2019: I quite like this one, ‘Meridian’ on the hill of #StKildaRoad at #AlmaRoad, #CHTarchitecture do a lot with a little, BUT it’s another random highrise, popping up all in its own; and it has the the problem with firsts, it’s built with most flats looking out the sides, over low rise, but not … Continue reading Graphic design in St Kilda →

17 September 2021 Landene, one of the remaining #stkildaroadmansions, but you’d have to say more of a big house than a mansion. Made a bit bigger by expanding the right front room downstairs into a sunroom. Built 1897 for McHenry England, tea importer. The heritage study doesn’t mention an architect. Unusual sort of almost Regency … Continue reading Landene, last private house on St Kilda Road →

16 September 2019: Looks like 30s #creambrick #earlymodern flats in #StKilda - but actually it’s 1959 ! #BurnettLodge in Burnett St. Thanks to whoever did the wiki page on #MordechaiBenshrnesh, I can see that most of his projects pick up the ideas of 1920s European avant-guard, very plain rectilinear unadorned, I guess from his training … Continue reading Burnett Lodge, nice garden →

Repost 2018: This is the best time of year to photograph the #MelbourneTownHall, except for the odd glass boxes. Interesting to compare with the 1866 design and 1870 version. Designed by #ReedandBarnes, #JosephReedArchitect. Partly the sketch is a bit vertically exaggerated, but also the site was enlarged a little, so the central bays were built … Continue reading Melbourne Town Hall →

Repost 2019: The delightful old #RoyalVictorianInstitutefortheBlind on #StKildaRoad was built in 1868, and designed by #CrouchAndWilson in a lovely picturesque #GothicRevival style (though actually not many pointed arches). BUT it’s basically always in shadow these days because before they sold they got a permit from #heritagevictoria for a big apartment building taking up all the … Continue reading Blind Institute in the dark, St Kilda Road →

Not my pictures but worth a post - Invergowrie in Coppin Street Hawthorn is a fantastically charming picturesque Gothic Revival bluestone house, that’s also really very old. Started about 1845, when it had the whole of the bend of the river as it’s grounds, I think it was then just the little symmetrical thing in … Continue reading Invergowrie, Hawthorn →