Showing posts with label Art Deco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Deco. Show all posts
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Cairo Fitzroy flats Art Deco - central coutryard lawn and trees 1935 - 1936
The front doors all faced onto the central garden area and small yellow doors were for the deliveries of daily fresh milk.Also home deliveries were made by the butcher and baker and greengrocer and probabley there was a place for the daily mail.These were built just after the Great Depression.
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1930s,
Architecture,
Art Deco,
courtyard garden,
Fitzroy,
Melbourne,
Modernist,
or
Art Deco Architecture Albert Park, by Frederick Romberg and Mary Shaw 1939 - 1942 South Melbourne
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.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Art Deco - Clifton Hill, and Westgarth Theatre
Former Trumold Tyre Workshop, Clifton Hill built 1938, by Hudson and Wardrop who also built the adjacent United Kingdom Hotel.
Visual Pollution- overhead wires!!!!
The Westgarth Cinema, on the corner of Barry Street and High Street, Northcote was officially opened on 20 October 1921.
The builder was 26 year old John Seccull of Barry Street. During the 1930s the upper two stories were added. There is no proof that it's architect was Walter Burley Griffin. "Architect: M.E.C. Yeomans" see http://www.cinematour.com/tour/au/155.html .
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
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