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67599

Kodak House

252 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4088

Classification extends to facade only and the subsequent ground floor alterations are excluded. Statement of significance: A seven storey showroom and office building of 1934/35 by architects Oakley & Parkes; notable for its early use of spandrel stainless steel panels in its facade which represent a departure from the forms of classically derived styles developed in the decade prior to the Second World War and a significant technical innovation. Classified: 09/02/1978

B4088

Local
196451

Former Buckley & Nunn Men's Store

David Jones ,  Leonard House ,  Kodak House

294 - 296 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4053

Beside a retail site occupied by Buckley and Nunn since 1851, architects Bates, Smart and McCutcheon designed a ground level and three upper levels of retail space to be completed by builders E.A.Watts in 1934. In that year the building won the Royal Victorian Insitutite of Architects' Street Architecture Medal; the jury stating that it was a distinct departure from the traditional and thus exemplary of the modern trend in design. Like the later Kodak House (1934-5) and the ... more

B4053

State
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