Sunday, September 23, 2007

MacRobertsons Girls' High School 1933-1934 Albert Park Melbourne

Architects were Seabrook and Fildes 1933- 1934. Australias best example of well preserved Modernist architecture -or Art Deco architecture. Horizontal effect is heightened by deeper mortar on the horizonal joins between the bricks. [ more pictures coming]

Roy Grounds Architect Moonbria flats Toorak Melbourne

Photographs Melbourne 1930s Architecture Burley Griffin style East Hawthorn 1929 house

Eric M. Nicholls Architect. Used Hume Limited pipes in construction with Aztec influenced cement blocks.

Street Entrance Curved ceilings and decoration motif Baby ringtail possum

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Camberwell Architecture Melbourne Modernist or Art Deco 1930s day tour.

Architecture Melbourne Modernist or Art Deco 1930s day tour. Camberwell Christian Scientits' building. Second Church of Christ, Scientist 41 Cookson Street, Camberwell. Commonly called the Christian Scientists. ARchitects Bates Smart and McCutcheon built 1934-1939. Much of the original furnishings remain and even includes an elevator or lift that is operated by a system of water tanks. This building has 2 floors, the ground floor has a foyer with staircase and on the floor a large rug in the design of the original mosaics. Behind the foyer is a large room for Sunday school classes for children with specially designed "healthy" chairs still in use.