Butterpaper: buildings:

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 8 years ago.

Case Study House No. 22

1635 Woods Dr
West Hollywood, CA 90069, United States
+1 323-939-2255

in United States California Los Angeles West Hollywood [1] Last verified 11 years ago.

Bushbunker

“Bushbunker is an architecturally designed bushfire safety bunker concept that has been envisioned in response to the horrific Black Saturday bushfires of February 2009. The design addresses the limitations of the Victorian Governments revised building standards for bushfire prone areas, as well as the critical shortcomings of current market solutions.”

in Australia Victoria Last verified 11 years ago.

X2 Resorts Kui Buri

By architect Duangrit Bunnag.

in Thailand Prachuap Khiri Khan Kui Buri Last verified 11 years ago.

National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery
King Edward Terrace
Parkes ACT 2600
ph: +61 2 6102 7000
f: +61 2 6102 7001

in Australia Australian Capital Territory Canberra Parkes [1] Last verified 11 years ago.

RMIT Design Hub

Commencing construction in July 2009.

in Australia Victoria Melbourne Carlton [1] Last verified 11 years ago.

New Museum

in United States New York New York CBD [7] Last verified 11 years ago.

Auckland Art Gallery

in New Zealand Auckland Auckland Last verified 10 years ago.

Rivendell - 17 Meredith Circuit

Designed by organic architect Laurie Virr in 1975.

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

Happy Haus

Donovan Hill designed portable housing.

in Australia Queensland Last verified 11 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 8 years ago.