buildings
Lyon Housemuseum
“The house is located eight kilometres east of Melbourne in the residential suburb of Kew and displays selected works from the Lyon Collection. The Collection includes paintings, sculpture, video work and installations by many of Australia’s leading contemporary artists.
Melbourne Recital Centre and MTC
Premier's Design Awards – Melbourne Recital Centre and MTC Theatre from State of Design on Vimeo.
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Naval and Military Club
[25-35 Little Collins Street]
Melbourne
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Port Phillip Estate Winery
263 Red Hill Road
Red Hill South
Mornington Peninsula
Victoria Australia
Ph: +61 3 5989 4444
3 Bruthen Road
“Designed and built by respected Geelong architect Graeme Williams as his own family home, this quality executive house offers 350m2 (38 squares) of living space (approx). Open plan in design with large windows throughout, this house optimises its northerly aspect and cleverly uses plantings to filter the summer sun.”
Holyoake Cottage
[54A Connell Street]
Hawthorn
Lonsdale House barber shop
[4 Caledonian Lane]
Melbourne
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Guilford Bell Pavilion
An owner’s profile of her pyramid-roofed Guilford Bell house in Templestowe, Melbourne. Includes some photos.
Boyd Baker House
Boyd Baker Compound
[Long Forest Road]
Long Forest,
near Bacchus Marsh
Victoria
Ph: 03 8508 6444
The Gauge
825 Bourke Street, Victoria Harbour (Docklands)
Kangan Batman TAFE
Automotive Centre of Excellence
[1 Batman’s Hill Drive]
Docklands VIC 3008
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Mission to Seafarers
This is a precious old building left intact in the middle of an area of rapid development. Now that it is far from the ships that it services, I hope it doesn’t suffer the fate of the Mission at Prt Melbourne (now Beacon Cove). A mishmash of spanish mission and arts and crafts styles, the building is full of the unexpected. The Norla Gymnasium is an example – roughly hewn, it is instantly my favorite dome interior – but I haven’t been to Rome. Let’s hope they do the mooted refurb sensitively. The chapel is hard to describe, and impossible to photograph without a wide lens, so visit it. Of interest are the pulpit shaped like the back of a galleon, and the varying naive modern(?) stained glass windows. The bar (which is open to the public every day) is a great space too, particularly its shallow vault, and broken beer bottle bar front. This complex complex was designed by Walter Butler and built in 1916 to 1917. The name was apparently changed from Mission to Seamen to Mission to Seafarer in 2000, for unknown reasons.
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Bushbunker
“Bushbunker is an architecturally designed bushfire safety bunker concept that has been envisioned in response to the horrific Black Saturday bushfires of February 2009. The design addresses the limitations of the Victorian Governments revised building standards for bushfire prone areas, as well as the critical shortcomings of current market solutions.”
RMIT Design Hub
Commencing construction in July 2009.
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Worth a visit from time to time. Generally well-curated exhibitions in some interesting buildings by McGlashan Everist and, more recently, O’Connor and Houle.
National Gallery of Victoria International
180 St Kilda Road
Melbourne 3004
Victoria
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4 Thornhill Drive
[4 Thornhill Drive]
Forest Hill
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