Repost 2018: A bit dominated but great - Gollin & Co, an office block at the industrial end of #bourkestreet. Built 1904, designed by #CharlesDEbro, who tended towards interesting eclecticism, this ones a bit #Queenanne, a bit #edwardianfreestyle (that #cupola). In 1989 it was incorporated into a larger office thing, designed by #PerrottLyonMathieson when Carey … Continue reading Gollin & Co →

Repost 2019: The #BnaiBrith in #HothamRoad, #EastStKilda, built in 1959, is a joint design by Ernest Fooks and Kurt Popper who both did a number of buildings for the Jewish community. At first I thought this was synagogue but it’s actually meeting rooms, B’nai Brith being a social and advocacy organisation, who have moved nearby. … Continue reading B’nai B’rith, East St Kilda →

13 September 2018: Another striking design by #PercyEverett, Chief Architect of the #PublicWorksDepartment 1934-53, where he did a LOT of colleges, this is the #WilliamAngliss food tech school in #LatrobeStreet, built 1940. A bit Dutch #BrickExpressionist, with his fave diagonal piers, and a fair amount of ribbing. Verticals vs horizontals. End pavilions kind pf brick … Continue reading William Angliss College →

14 September 2018: A church that doesn’t put its best face forward (I had to lean over a fence for this shot) but to be fair it’s one of the many churches where the #spire was #neverbuilt, which explains the blank rendered wall on the main corner. #HolyTrinityStKilda, 1883-9, #ReedandBarnes (#JosephReedArchitect) showing that Reed could … Continue reading Holy Trinity St Kilda →

Repost 2019: At the end of #AclandStreet #StKilda there’s another of those great #ArtDeco #CommowealthBank’s, though this one suffers a little from the corner bring very splayed, so the plain flanking walls dominate a bit. Nice details though. As a restaurant/cafe it also suffers from being across the road from the main shops, so there’s … Continue reading Art Deco Commonwealth Bank no 3 →

14 September 2019: This landmark passed by 10000 of cars every day is #StJohnTheEvangelist, #EastMelbourne, one of the biggest and most prominent #Romanesque style churches in Victoria, but not one Ive ever admired I have to say. Built 1929-30, designed by #WPConelly, who did many Catholic projects in the interwar years, and not the most … Continue reading St John the Evangelist x 3, East Melbourne →

Repost 2015: The remarkable towered house on #alfredcrescent #northfitzroy - actually a complete do-over of a typical 1880s #terracehouse in c1905 in an exotic melange of #artsandcrafts #artnouveau maybe some #Moorish a whole lot of #rustication and a #cupola! Designer unknown. Found interior shots from the last sale in 2015, I’m told this was the … Continue reading Grand house in Fitzroy →

Repost 2019: Neat 60s flats at 36-38 #DalgetyStreet #StKilda. Nicely composed street elevation, and they seem to be all studios, in two blocks facing each other across a heavily planted central area, which is nice (though everybody walks past your windows). There’s a few single old men living here, maybe protected low rent tenants. Not … Continue reading Studio flats in St Kilda (probably cheap) →

12 September 2019: So there was a fire in my street yesterday- it was in this 60s block of studio flats, mostly vacant but a few single older men still there - it was sold last year and a permit to replace it with 7 townhouses (of course). Saw a bunch of people wandering in … Continue reading Gentrification in Dalgety street →

Repost 2019: If you step out into #FlindersStreet and crouch down you can block out #EurekaMelbourne which otherwise pokes annoyingly out the top and just to one side.