Koombalah at 27 Grey Street St Kilda on the corner of Jackson Street, is a significant Federation Queen Anne end terrace which is currently in a severely neglected state. The building bears a bronzed art noveau plaque with its name “Koombalah” and features two prominent tudor style gables, an imposing chimney and faceted bay [...]
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 [...]
St Kilda’s west beach pavilion on Beaconsfield Parade at St Kilda West is an interwar classical design featuring a mini portico and columns which has a large footprint but low profile. The building is of local significance, and an important part of St Kilda’s interwar character, but has been derelict and deteriorating for over a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The historic Frankston Oval Jamboree Grandstand, one of Frankston’s landmark heritage buildings has been destroyed by fire on the 12th February.
Arson is suspected.
The 1936 building was in the process of being restored at a cost of around $1.5 milllion which began in 2005 with the renaming to the Bryan Mace Grandstand.
This is a real blow [...]
An electrical fire damaged several floors of the St Kilda RSL on Acland Street during a recent blackout. The building is of heritage significance to St Kilda. Fortunately fire fighters prevented the blaze from engulfing the building and the art deco ceilings and interiors have been fully repaired.
This stunning moderne-style office building, one of Melbourne’s finest in the style was recently subject to a development proposal by a syndicate including Myer for a multi-storey retail complex.I’m told that the Art Deco society are doing their best to save this Lonsdale Street architectural icon.It is one of my personal favourite building designs in [...]
This stunning but derelict moderne-style tram shed - one of the rare works of reknowned interwar architect Harry Norris - in a heritage overlay was part of a proposal for demolition for a new apartment complex. VCAT ruled that the sheds could be demolished.The Art Deco Society has further information and updates on this building.
Walking [...]
The 1930s moderne-style carpark was recently subject to a development proposal for a multi-storey office tower. It is on the heritage register because it was the first of it’s type in the city of Melbourne. Dissapointingly the state government through VCAT has overruled the legal protection status of Heritage Victoria’s Victorian Heritage Regiser (VHR) and [...]
