Port Phillip City Council is spending $233,000 and $25,000 a year in maintenance to conserve the area’s 24 monuments including he crumbling South African War Memorial on the Esplanade which is missing many of its glazed terracotta tiles and the St Kilda War Memorial in Catani Gardens.
This is much welcomed money to preserve monuments to [...]
The Capitol Bakeries site at 257 Toorak Road on the corner of Chapel Street is a large eclectic building featuring significant 1933 art deco design on the corner facade, large door motifs of moorish and byzantine inspiration and an early modern tower. It also includes a two storey Victorian renaissance revival mansion at [...]
As reported back in 2005, Lend Lease wants to demolish one of Melbourne’s and for that matter - Australia’s - best examples of monumental stripped classical architecture.
Well although the Freemasons declined to exercise their option to sell the to developers then, it has recently been reported that Lend Lease and the Freemasons Victoria have reopened [...]
The Robert Heatley Stand at Princes Park is the first victim of the Carlton Football Club’s redevelopment of the ground as a training facility.
The 1932 stand is the largest at the Carlton Oval football and former cricket ground which has also been known as Princess Park and under naming rights Optus and M C Labour [...]
It infuriates me that the Victorian government through VCAT continually allows interstate developers to lay waste to what is left of our heritage. As reported by Real Estate Source (which incidentally looks suspiciously similar to one of my earlier blog posts), Macquarie Bank has refused to incorporate the 105 year old Avalon mansion into [...]
Interesting article from the Age about a call to restore the Athenaeum on Collins Street.I have many fond memories of this theatre and often admire it during the Comedy Festival. Perhaps the only sad thing about Melbourne’s fantastic range of pre-war theatres is that there are so many of them remaining. It is [...]
