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Month: July 2012

July 25, 2012May 17, 2013

Melbourne Conversations | Heritage and development innovation: making Melbourne a world leader

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July 20, 2012July 29, 2013

Objection | Royal Saxon Hotel (1858) to be facaded

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July 18, 2012May 17, 2013

Melbourne By-Election and Heritage

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This was on Spring Street on the corner of Little Bourke, and was demolished in the 80s, after the first two floors were altered. #Repost @heraldsunphoto_retro ・・・ Photo 1935. The Melbourne Dental Hospital and Australian College of Dentistry. . #melbourne #dentalhospital #melbournehistory #vintage #melbournecbd #bnwphotography #springstreet #melbournephotography #lostmelbourne #melbournelife

#HarleyHouse, a ‘chambers’ built for the medical profession (named after the once famous medical street in London #HarleySteeet), 1923, in a broadly #CommercialPalazzo form by #SydneySmithOggandSerpell. An apartment tower by #BatesSmart just approved that’ll replace the 70s thing on the left, with a rather crazy podium, but at least it connects the #cornices of the flanking older buildings. Went to VCAT to try to get extra floors but cut down so as not to overshadow #BirrarungMarr.

Poor old #WestBourkeHotel aka #CelticClub, about to be facaded for nearly 50 storeys of apartments. Built 1876 (matching top floor added 1920s), home of the club since 1959, who said they couldn’t afford to do it up, so controversially did a deal with developers to sell it for $25mill and buy back lower floors (maybe); the developers (I think it was them not the club) got a permit from #MatthewGuy in 2012 keeping only the facade with tiny setbacks, lucky to get that much since it didn’t get heritage listed till 2013 (though proposed as soon as the deal was public). Anyway, 6 years later, it’s happening, with the no side setbacks and small front ones, the sort of development which was banned last year - the two new towers either side obviously permitted before then.

#Archeology starting on the site of the shops in #SwanstonStreet next to #YounganndJacksons demolished for the #MelbourneMetroTunnel. Apparently#JohnBatman built a timber house here in 1837, so they’re hoping too find something going back to first settlement. Thanks to James M Hall for the photos.

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