Terrible news for the heritage of Greater Melbourne …
157 years would have had made it one of the oldest hotels in the state.
Historic Diggers Rest Hotel destroyed by fire
Article from: Herald Sun
Staff writers and wires
October 30, 2008 11:20am
A 157-year-old hotel was destroyed by fire north-west of Melbourne overnight and police are treating the [...]
VCAT has pushed through the demolition of Albert Park’s historic post office to make way for an apartment tower in one of Melbourne’s most significant historic areas - the Bridport Street village.
Despite protests from local residents, the Victorian-era village is now set to lose much of its charm. Originally at over 4 storeys, the [...]
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 [...]
Among the rapid changes to St Kilda’s urban fabric, which have seen the disappearance of much of its famous interwar character is the demolition of red brick 1920s backbuildings, which are part of the locally significant Acland Street St Kilda War Memorial RSL complex. The buildings once formed a uniform interwar streetscape along Albert [...]
One of the rarest Byzantine styled buildings in Australia has been lost forever to be replaced by a rather plain looking podium for a modern apartment building.
First built in 1872 in the east end of Bourke Street, the Eastern Arcade’s facade was remodelled in 1894 by Hyndman & Bates (Bates being one of Melbourne’s foremost [...]
I read with interest a cover story in the Port Phillip Leader about a midnight demolition of one half of an interwar duplex in Barak Road, Port Melbourne in a heritage overlay. The owners were so brash that they caused damage to their adjoining neighbour’s unit and kept them up most the night. These things [...]
Despite attempts by locals and the council to preserve one of St Kilda’s classic interwar heritage streetscapes, VCAT has in favour of developers to completely demolish five buildings along Acland street.
Take your last look at this streetscape ….
These buildings and their edwardian chimneys form one of the most intact streetscapes left in St Kilda and [...]
Myer has begun demolishing some of the buildings along Little Lonsdale Street alongside the GPO redevelopment as part of its redevelopment. This narrow laneway which contains skybridges has a distinctly interwar feel, lined by many pre-war commercial buildings in a similar style to Flinders Lane. The redevelopment [...]
