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1 Myer Department Store (1933) Features include a facade rendered in Snowcrete, a new product of the 1930s, panels enlivened by faux Egyptian patterns and the Grand Mural Hall on the sixth floor. Architect: H. Q. & F. B. Tompkins |
314-336 Bourke St |
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2 David Jones Department Store (1934) Formerly Buckley & Nunn, features male figures dressed in Jazz Age costume, glazed terracotta panels and spandrels faced with stainless steel chevrons and colourful musical notes.
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3 David Jones Department Store (1929) Features Aztec patterns in the upper spandrels, Aztec being another of the 'exotic' influences of Art Deco. A building in the Commerical Gothic Moderne style. Architect: Harry Norris |
299-307 Bourke St |
4 Diamond House (1936) Features a facade with three colours of terracotta cladding, a simple building in the Streamlined style.
Architect: H. W. & F. B. Tompkins |
313-317 Bourke St | |
5 Deva House (1924-5) Formely G. J. Coles building. A heavy, reinforced concrete building its most striking surviving feature is a colonnade and pediment supported by a balconette of diagonally braced panels.
Architect: Harry Norris |
323-325 Bourke St | |
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6 Commonwealth Bank of Australia (1939-41) A very plain, block-like building featuring narrow bronze-framed windows. Am I the only one who think this looks like something out of the old Superman TV series?
Architect: W. Henderson |
219-229 Bourke St |
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7 Westpac (1929) Formely Bank of NSW. A bank building of polished granite and bronze. Featuring a full-WIDTH entablature with winged scarab.
Architect: Godfrey and Spowers
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190-192 Bourke St |
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8 Ex-Blockbuster video (1934) Formerly Patterson Ltd building. Strong vertical ribs of mottled green. A full WIDTH of spandrels at the first floor are incised with a faux Egyptian motif.
Architect: A. W. Parnell
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152-160 Bourke St |
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10 Kurrajong House (1926) A restrained building, relying on a central column of bay windows for vertical emphasis.
Architect: R. M. & M. H. King |
175-177 Bourke St | |
11 Melbourne Theosophical Society (1936) Highly influenced by Egyptian forms, so popular in the Art Deco period, it features Egyptian columns with papyrus capitals.
Architect: Marsh and Michaelson | 181-187 Collins St | |
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12 Manchester Unity (1932) A building in Grand Commercial Gothic style, strongly vertical with a tower reaching a further 23.7 metres (78 feet). Inside, low reliefs record colonial achievements.
Architect: Marcus Barlow | 220-226 Collins St |
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13 Century Building (1939) A memorable building with a tower rising above bright white faience blocks.
Architect: Marcus Barlow | 125-133 Swanston St |
14 Capitol Theatre (1926) Featuring strong geometric forms, this theatre has lost some of its major features including the whole stalls area.
Architect: Marion Mahoney Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin. | 109-117 Swanston St | |
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15 Newspaper House (1933)
The result of a competition, it features a facade clad with sandstone ashlar with pairs of balconettes and a glass mosaic by Napier Waller entitled "I'll put a girdle around the earth".
Architect: Stephenson & Meldrum | 247-249 Collins St |
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16 Howey House (1929) Features a mezzanine floor with arched window flanked by three musical figures.
Architect: Marcus Barlow | 234-238 Collins St |
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17 Kodak House (1934-5) Features pressed stainless steel spandrels from horizontal bands and steel-framed windows.
Architect: Oakley & Parks | 252 Collins St |
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18 Block Court (1930) A shopping arcade inserted into built into an existing 1890 building has ceiling cornices and centrepieces decorated with bold flowers and zig zag motifs and a polychromatic terrazzo floor.
Architect: Harry Norris | 288 Collins St |
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19 Alkira House (1936) Streamlined Moderne, it features a green tile frame around industrial glass blocks providing natural light to the stairway. Additional fins curve back over the parapet and lock onto the facade.
Architect: James Wardrop | 18 Queen St |
| 20 National Trustees Executors Agency (1939) Features a balcony with a balustrade of diagonally crossed ribs.
Architect: Anketell & K. Henderson | 93-95 Queen St |
 | 21 Australian Assurance Co Ltd (1936) Features striated pilasters rising through three floors to chevron capitals and finned buttresses that curve to a slight setback. Additional fins leap over and lock onto the parapet.
Architect: Hennessy Hennessy & Co | 118-126 Queen St |
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22 Beehive Building (1935) One of the most distinctive buildings in Melbourne, it features steel-framed bay windows which reach out to the horizontal banded spandrels. The beehive on the parapet has been removed.
Architect: J. Plottel | 92-94 Elizabeth St |
23 Yule House (1932) Probably the first Art Deco building to be constructed in Melbourne. Features strong, horizontal spandrels faced with cream faience terracotta.
Architect: Oakley & Parks | 309 Little Collins St |
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