Port Phillip Arcade, 230-236 Flinders Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Port Phillip Arcade, 230-236 Flinders Street, Melbourne
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1985
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BIF-CITY 104014
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Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)
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Series: Central City (BIF-CITY)
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2021:Period: Post Second-WarConstruction date: 1961DESIGNER: Ballantyne, J F W & Assoc.; Charles Bush -sculpture.TROVEhttps://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-161004967/viewSievers, Wolfgang (1913-2007), 1969Title Port Phillip Arcade from Flinders Street through to Collins Street, Melbourne, 1969, [3] [picture] / Wolfgang Sievers.NATIONAL TRUST OF AUSTRALIA (VIC)Melbourne’s Marvellous Modernism-A Comparative Analysis of Post-War Modern Architecture in Melbourne’s CBD 1955 -1975September 2014 (Paul Roser, Senior Manager Conservation and Advocacy, National Trust of Australia (Victoria)Emily Piper, Advocate Heritage Programs, National Trust of Australia (Victoria) )This more decorative trend is apparent in other small-scaled city buildings of the era, such as the Port Phillip Arcade on Flinders Street (J F W Ballantyne, 1961), with its facade dominated by a central mosaic tiled spandrel with eye-catching semi-figurative metal sculpture by Charles Bush. A similar building by the same architect, the Hub Arcade at 318-322 Little Collins Street (1965) illustrates the shift in architectural taste that took place over the intervening years. Moving away from the more Featurist style of the early 1960s, Ballantyne opted for a much simpler façade expression with plain ceramic tile cladding and large rectangular windows with sliding plate glass sashes. This more understated approach to the design of small commercial buildings persisted into the later 1960s and early 1970s, as seen in such examples as the three-storeyed offices of solicitors Cohen & Cohen at 168 Russell Street (Clive Fredman, 1970), and the two-storey Stokes Building at 35 King Street (c.1970), each of which used a very basic vocabulary of vertical piers in plain brown brick. The last word in minimalist design, however, was the striking two-storey building that architectural firm Yuncken Freeman Pty Ltd built for its own use at 411-415 King Street, West Melbourne (1970), expressed in a bold Miesian manner with exposed steel framing and an infill of tinted glazing..NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)The Age - May 2, 1961:Lord mayor opening today after 119 year history, was the site of house Hodgson's Folly, later leased by Port Phillip Club to 1843, then became Port Phillip Hotel, with JP Fawkner and Edward Scott as licensees, to closing time in 1959, by then with an arcade `one of the oddest corners of Melbourne'. Now made over with sleek, modern, chrome Perspex, hidden lighting, and soft background music. On front is sculpture of Poseidon or King Neptune, god of the sea (as in Port Phillip) with ships' rigging, masts and stars- sculptor Charles Bush.Architect JFW Ballantyne- strictly contemporary design, with ramps instead of stairs, and non slip carborundum floor tiles..Charles Bush1951 prizehttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2478446231952 Charles Bush, who has just returned from a two years' trip to Europe under the auspices of the British Council…https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/473716801954 prizehttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/50629823WON MOST PRIZESCharles Bush, a Melbourne painter, was born in 1919. He was a war artist in Timor and New Guinea. He has probably won more prizes in com petitions than any other Australian artist. The only major prize he has not yet won is the Archibald Prize. A selection of Caselli Richards prize entries will be shown at the Queensland Gallery from October 25.Etc.
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