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R G Lawrence House and Flats

Other Name R G Lawrence House and Flats Location 13 Studley Avenue KEW, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of B Graded Buildings

Statement of Significance

The R G Lawrence House and Flats at 13 Studley Avenue, Kew, is of local historical and municipal architectural significance. The complex is a prominent and externally highly intact example within a group of innovative and exploratory houses designed by architects in the Studley Park area between 1951 and c.1968. Both within this group and in the wider context, the design reflects the change of approach evident in the work of Boyd and others during the later 1960s, where their structurally expressive and skeletal designs of the 1950s were supplanted by more consciously solid and almost town-like assemblages of solid massing. 13 Studley Avenue, Kew, is one of Robin Boyd's most accomplished designs, and one where an unusual concentration of his concerns converges. He reconciles these with grace and eloquence here, in a plan which flows unusually well for Boyd's box form designs and which projects urbanity and a vital complexity in its exterior.