Showing posts with label or. Show all posts
Showing posts with label or. 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.
Labels:
1930s,
Architecture,
Art Deco,
courtyard garden,
Fitzroy,
Melbourne,
Modernist,
or
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.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)