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Original post 8 July 2020 This is Newspaper House, built in 1932-33 for the Herald as their city office, as it is, and as it might have been - just learned there was a competition, with 8 entries published, mostly quite conservative but mostly Art Deco more or less, showing how it had taken hold … Continue reading Newspaper House, Collins Street, competition 1932.
This article appeared in Spirit of Progress, Journal of the Art Deco and Modernism Society of Australia, Autumn 2016 As an architecture student in the 1980s, we were taught that the first fully bona-fide Art Deco building in Melbourne was the delightful Yule House designed b Oakley & Parkes, in Little Collins Street. Five storeys … Continue reading When Art Deco arrived in Victoria
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
Storey of Melbourne 