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Some of my favourite Art Deco buildings from around the world, illustrated using my photographs.
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Dorijo, East Melbourne
The entrance to Dorijo, a block of flats in Victoria Parade in East Melbourne, only hints at what a spectacular Art Deco building it is.It was designed by I G Anderson in 1934 the similarities to his, now doomed to demolition, Lonsdale House are most...
J Pringle Automotive, North Melbourne
I had lunch with a friend in North Melbourne today. North Melbourne being a old part of Melbourne was established well before the deco period but in between the Victorian houses, shops and warehouses and the modern builds and conversions there are a...
Chemist, South Yarra
A chemist shop with apartments above in the inner Melbourne suburb of South Yarra.See my prints and t-shirts at www.redbubble.com/people/dct66 and tees and other giftware at www.zazzle.com/davidt66*. ...
T&G Building, Melbourne
At one time the T&G Building dominated the Melbourne Skyline. It is still a landmark but no longer the city's tallest building and no longer housing the T&G Insurance Company.The building was designed by Anketell & Kingsley Henderson and constructed...
1928 Members Pavilion, MCG, Melbourne
In 1928 the Members Pavilion at the Melbourne Cricket Ground designed by architects Stephenson and Meldrum was completed. It was the third members pavilion at the ground following the sequence from the original stand in 1854 and it's replacement dat...
Alkira House, Melbourne
I suppose it isn't good form to complain that there are too many trees in the streets of my home town of Melbourne. The problem is, I can't get a clear photo of one of my favourite Melbourne buildings, Alkira House.Alkira House is a beautiful little ...
A House in Camberwell
I adore the front of this house in Camberwell. I don't know if it is a deep verandah or an enormous porch behind that complete semi-circular arch.On a hot November Saturday in Melbourne I look at this house and wonder if it is cool in there.See my p...
Warwick Court, St Kilda East
I absolutely love these four garages at Warwick Court in St Kilda East. It is lovely to see the original doors still intact. I reckon I could just fit my car into one of the garages but I'm not sure I could open the car door to get out once I was i...
Agra, Camberwell
This is an interesting residence called Agra on the Golf Links Estate in Camberwell. I especially like the quarter-circle balcony and the stepped brick supports and simple metal ballustrade on the other small balcony.See my prints and t-shirts at ww...
Phylstan, St Kilda East
This is Phylstan, a streamline house in St Kilda East.I like the use of contrasting dark brown bricks for the base of the house and as decoration in two bands around the roofline. The stepped chimney is also constructed from these dark bricks and the...
Traffic Islands, Golf Links Estate, Camberwell
The Golf Links Estate in Camberwell is a wonderful collection of interwar houses but when I visited a week or so ago I was taken by the these small traffic islands.I saw two and as you can see they are triangular in shape with a round light on a conc...
Carn the Saints
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St Kilda Town Hall
No prizes for picking St Kilda Town Hall as a fairly substantial Victorian building but ... well it's Grand Final week and the Saints are in the Grand Final for the first time since 1997. We've only won it once in 1966. Maybe 2009 will be our year ...
Centenary Hall, Melbourne Showgrounds
I went to the Royal Melbourne Show yesterday for the first time in yonks. I remember the first time I went was Grand Final day 1975 with my parents. It was our first year in Australia and we choose the Show over the footy. I've never made that mistak...
Woodside, Camberwell
As the name suggests, the Golf Links Estate in Camberwell was built on a former golf course and is considered one of the best interwar suburbs in Melbourne.This is Woodside with its name worked into the ironwork of the gate. A concrete path leads pa...
Public Conveniences, St Kilda
I don't know if it is a particular Art Deco fascination or not but on every Art Deco tour we like to check out the bathrooms and toilets. From the fabulous rest room at Radio City Music Hall in NYC to the most humble house the bathroom is often a tr...
National Trustees Executors Agency, Melbourne
The National Trustees Executors Agency from 1939 was designed by architects Anketell and Henderson.The stepped and asymmetrical nature of the roofline provide lots of visual interest to this modest office building.See my prints and t-shirts at www.re...
