House

The house designed and constructed c.1957 by architects Moore and Hammond at 10 Alexandra Street is significant.

How is it significant?

10 Alexandra Street is of historic, architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Banyule.

Why is it significant?

10 Alexandra Street is one of a number of innovative architecturally designed modern houses that are an important part of the post war development of Banyule. Architects and their clients, attracted by the undulating topography, views and natural vegetation built a number of houses of high architectural quality, responding both to new architectural theories and the site conditions. The house at 10 Alexandra Street represents a combination of the skills of owner and master builder Keith Llewellyn and architects Moore and Hammond. (Criterion A)

The modern International Style house is rare in the Greensborough area. (Criterion B)

10 Alexandra Street is an early and striking example of the work of Melbourne-based architects Moore and Hammond (who were active from the 1950s to the 1980s), an excellent example of modernist architecture and is highly intact. Notable features within the building include interlocking rectilinear forms, carefully controlled glazing composition and a contrast between the large areas of wall planes and glazed walls The International Style is clearly expressed in the building forms that cantilever over each other, the plain flat wall surfaces, horizontal glazing pattern and the expression of the structural steel frame. (Criteria D, E & F).

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House