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68850

Roy Grounds' Residence & Flats

24 Hill Street,, TOORAK VIC 3142 - Property No B5047

The development at 24 Hill Street Toorak, with a residence designed as his own home by noted architect Roy Grounds (later Sir Roy) and a string of four investment units behind, is architecturally significant at the National level. The house has architectural significance as one of the most celebrated works of modernist domestic design of the mid 20th century. It is also one of the best designs by Roy Grounds, one of Victoria's most well known and influential modern architects, ... more

B5047

National
 

'The Royal' Flats

1 Robe Street,, ST KILDA VIC 3182 - Property No B7135

B7135

File only
 

Glenunga Flats

2 Horsburgh Grove,, MALVERN VIC 3144 - Property No B6448

B6448

File only
189560

Del Marie Flats

4 St. Leonard's Avenue,, ST KILDA VIC 3182 - Property No B6733

The Del Marie flats, designed by Stuart Hall and erected in 1937, are significant at a regional level for their particularly expressive use of the Streamlined Moderne. While other flats expressed modernist principles more directly, Del Marie, with its curved corners, and bold horizontal massing of solids and voids, contrasted against a vertical stair-tower, is one of the best examples of what could be called the Moderne style amongst residential flats. Classified: 03/06/1996

B6733

Regional
186810

Caringal Flats

3 Tahara Road,, TOORAK VIC 3142 - Property No B5275

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 ... more

B5275

State
 

Langi Flats

579 Toorak Road,, TOORAK VIC 3142 - Property No B6915

Langi Flats, a pair of apartment buildings designed by renowned architect Walter Burley Griffin, and built in 1925 & 1926, are significant at the state level for architectural and aesthetic reasons. Walter Burley Griffin, in association with his wife Marion Mahoney, was the most remarkable and individualistic architect in Australia during his stay between 1913 and 1935. The Langi Flats are unusual in his oeuvre for displaying more of the style features of his earlier ... more

B6915

State
194067

Ostend Flats

29 Seacombe Grove,, BRIGHTON VIC 3186 - Property No B7146

The Bayside complex known as Ostend flats, designed by prominent Melbourne architect I.G. Anderson and constructed in 1934/35 is of significant architectural, historical and social importance at the State level. It is one of the earliest and most striking examples of the Moderne style applied to flats in Victoria. The buildings are of exceptional architectural importance within both Melbourne and the State of Victoria. They represent a unique link with the culture of Victoria in ... more

B7146

State
 

Flats

3 Trawalla Avenue,, TOORAK VIC 3142 - Property No B4063

B4063

File only
 

Garden Avenue & George Street Flats

Islander Place ,  Kingscourt ,  Greensborough ,  Tuffnell Lodge

48-50 Wellington Parade, 1-3 and 2-16 Garden Avenue and 37 George Street,, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B6998

The complex which includes a guest house, bachelor flats and residential units located at Wellington Parade-Garden Avenue and stretching through to George Street, East Melbourne, includes seven buildings all designed by the same architect, I. G. Anderson, during the period from 1938 - 1941. The buildings are designed in the 'Moderne' style popular during the late 1930's. All the buildings are of three storeys and are designed with strong horizontal and vertical emphases. ... more

B6998

State
186132

Garryowen Flats

54 The Avenue, PARKVILLE VIC 3010 - Property No B4814

Demolished 1981.

B4814

Demolished
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