Butterpaper: buildings: Australia

Manning Clark House

Dymphna Clark discusses the Manning Clark house by Robin Boyd with the ABC in 1994. A fine interview in which we learn that Dympha first heard of Boyd reading The Age in isolated Croydon…

in Australia Australian Capital Territory Canberra Forrest [1] Last verified this year.

Rivendell - 17 Meredith Circuit

Designed by organic architect Laurie Virr in 1975.

in Australia Australian Capital Territory Canberra Kambah [1] Last verified this year.

3 Bruthen Road

[3 Bruthen Road]
Highton
Geelong

in Australia Victoria Geelong Highton [1] Last verified 7 years ago.

Heide Museum of Modern Art

Worth a visit from time to time. Generally well-curated exhibitions in some interesting buildings by McGlashan Everist and, more recently, O’Connor and Houle.

in Australia Victoria Melbourne Bulleen [1] Last verified 7 years ago.

SAI House (formerly Shell House)

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in Australia Victoria Melbourne CBD [5] Last verified 7 years ago.

MONA Pavilions

[655 Main Road]
Berriedale
Tasmania

in Australia Tasmania Berriedale Last verified 7 years ago.

North Apartments

Seidler and Associates 2003

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in Australia New South Wales Sydney CBD [3] Last verified 7 years ago.

Mission to Seafarers

This is a precious old building left intact in the middle of an area of rapid development. Now that it is far from the ships that it services, I hope it doesn’t suffer the fate of the Mission at Prt Melbourne (now Beacon Cove). A mishmash of spanish mission and arts and crafts styles, the building is full of the unexpected. The Norla Gymnasium is an example – roughly hewn, it is instantly my favorite dome interior – but I haven’t been to Rome. Let’s hope they do the mooted refurb sensitively. The chapel is hard to describe, and impossible to photograph without a wide lens, so visit it. Of interest are the pulpit shaped like the back of a galleon, and the varying naive modern(?) stained glass windows. The bar (which is open to the public every day) is a great space too, particularly its shallow vault, and broken beer bottle bar front. This complex complex was designed by Walter Butler and built in 1916 to 1917. The name was apparently changed from Mission to Seamen to Mission to Seafarer in 2000, for unknown reasons.

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in Australia Victoria Melbourne Docklands [3] Last verified 7 years ago.

Lyon Housemuseum

“The house is located eight kilometres east of Melbourne in the residential suburb of Kew and displays selected works from the Lyon Collection. The Collection includes paintings, sculpture, video work and installations by many of Australia’s leading contemporary artists.

in Australia Victoria Melbourne Kew [1] Last verified 8 years ago.