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Caringal Flats
3 Tahara Road,, TOORAK VIC 3142 - Property No B5275
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Designed in 1948 by architect J W Rivett, this flat block was in the manner of the 1930's European and British work of Mendelsohn and Chermayeff, and the English architects E. Maxwell Fry and Connell, Ward and Lucas: it was built by 1951. The contractor was F T Jeffery and the consultant engineers Cyril Hudspeth and Roderick Ross and Traill.
Adopting steel-formed in situ reinforced concrete as the medium, Rivett created a highly successful, if derivative, juxtaposition of curved
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