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46 Clyde Street

Location 46 Clyde Street KEW EAST, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of B Graded Buildings

Statement of Significance

46 Clyde Street, East Kew, is of local historical and architectural significance as a representative and relatively intact example of the fully developed bungalow form. It fuses Californian aspects, the reflection of Japanese timber construction and its transformation of Arts and Crafts fabric into thin, screen-like surfaces and lines, and the Pasadena bungalow's 'dissolved facade' and emphatic horizontality - into a brick form utilising an array of other local materials including cement stucco and cement sheeting. The design is accomplished in its use of line and its employment of contrast between mass and lightness in structural expression. The manipulation of solid and void generates a strong visual expression of the idea of the domestic retreat.