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Art Deco
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36 records and collections
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1085 Hoddle Street - sketch plan
Sketch plan of 1085 Hoddle Street, East Melbourne. The purpose of this plan was to demonstrate to the building surveyor the method by which the builders had tested the load bearing capacity of the concrete floor. They had loaded a strip of floor three feet wide with 23 bags of ce...
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15 Palmer Street
Real Estate brochures since 2010. Photos. Plans
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69 Powlett Street
Real estate brochures since 2009. Photos. Plans
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Bradoc House
Real estate brochures from 2009. Photos. Plans
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Dorijo sold
Report of sale of flats at 458 Victoria Parade for $4.95m.
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East Melboune, Powlett Street 022
Auction brochure for auction of Apartment 3, 22 Powlett Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 12 October 2019. Colour photos. Plans
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East Melbourne Historical Society Newsletter: March, June, September 2008
Newsletter gives details of the Society's activities, and has short articles relevant to the history of East Melbourne and Jolimont. March articles: 'La Trobe's Cottage Visit', a report on Society's visit to La Trobe's cottage, with Helen Botham as guide. 'Congratulations', Ann G...
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East Melbourne Walk
A guided walk published by the Art Deco Society covering inter-war architecture in East Melbourne. Gives notable features of buildings. BW photos. 2002. Note: The illustration on p.17 has been incorrectly identified as Kingscourt, 37 George Street. It is, in fact, 53-55 George St...
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East Melbourne, 104 Simpson Street - before remodelling
Photo shows a two-storey terrace type house with cast iron balcony, In the 1930s the house was remodelled in the Art Deco manner.
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East Melbourne, Albert Street 097, Tunbridge Manor
A three storey block of interwar flats. The facade is symmetrical. The two top, outer windows are of unusual shape, the sides being angled inwards from about half way up. The central entry with window above leads the eye upward to a stepped parapet, giving a sense of verticality...
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East Melbourne, Albert Street 19, 23, Hatton Court
Two apartment blocks in the Moderne style
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East Melbourne, Art Deco buildings
Newspaper article about an important group of late 1930s apartment buildings in George Street and Garden Avenue, East Melbourne, designed by Illiffe Anderson.
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East Melbourne, Garden Avenue 02, 04
Newspaper clipping about sale of apartment block at 2-4 Garden Avenue, East Melbourne.
Place
East Melbourne, George Street 109, Kalingra
This building is a fine and intact example of 1930's Art Deco flats. Exhibiting extreme care in the detailing including Art Deco treatment of the sash horns on windows ; each flat has a curved balcony with string courses which increase in number up the building. The building is e...
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 018, 030
This two storey apartment block is a pair of attached buildings with separate entrances. Each building is symmetrical in itself and the building as a whole is also symmetrical apart from the treatment of the two entrances. Both entrances project forward slightly and rise the full...
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 084
Newspaper clipping reporting on the successful sale of Apartment 8, 84 Grey Street, East Melbourne
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East Melbourne, Hoddle Street 1081
Two storey block of 'bachelor' flats in the streamlined Moderne style. The building features curved walls, curved concrete window hoods, black contrasting bricks and portholes. Art Deco architecture is often described as being heavily influenced by modern transport design, partic...
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East Melbourne, Hoddle Street 1081
Art Deco building.
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East Melbourne, Hoddle Street 1085, Millhayes
Two storey cream brick apartment block in the Art Deco style
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 029
This is an interesting design solution for flats on a narrow site. The street facade is dominated by a half circle stairwell articulated by steel framed vertical windows (with etched glass in horizontal pattern), and two horizontal render bands. Doors to each flat have etched gla...
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 029
Art Deco block of flats of three storeys. A curved section, with three lines of windows running vertically through it, adoins a rectangular section, with windows each of six horizontal panes. The building was designed by I. G. Anderson in 1941 [see Building History link below].
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 071
A three storey block of Art Deco apartments built around a pre-existing shop. This is possibly the earliest licensed grocer in East Melbourne. Unfortunately the exterior has been substantially altered, but much of the interior shopfitting remains, including fine timber shelves, l...
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 155, Belgravia Square
Brochure advertising sale of apartments at Belgravia Square, 155 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. 1992
Place
East Melbourne, Simpson Street 054, 056, Liege Apartments
Notable features include unpainted decorative brickwork. A three storey block of flats incorporating a number of understated Moderne details into an inexpensive and otherwise generic design. The building is predominantly finished in cream coloured face brick and comprises a massi...