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Tasma Terrace, at 2 to 12 Parliament Place and 30 to 34 St Andrews Place in East Melbourne, was built by the distinguished British born Australian architect, Charles Webb (1821 – 1898). Once comprising seven three storey buildings, Tasma Terrace was constructed in two stages in the 1870s and 1880s. The first three buildings, which were originally known as “Parliament Place”, were erected in 1878 by William Ireland for George Nipper, a wealthy grain merchant and shipping magnate. George Nipper and his family lived at the northernmost building in the terrace (which was demolished in 1940) before moving to the Windsor Hotel in 1885. Due to financial difficulties, Mr. Nipper had to sell the terrace in 1885 to Joseph Thompson (1838 – 1909), a flamboyant and prominent Melbourne bookmaker and racehorse owner. The remaining four buildings that made up the terrace, thus extending the building to the corner of St Andrews Place, were constructed in 1886 and 1887 by Dunton and Hearnden for Joseph Thompson.
From the time of its construction, Tasma Terrace was used mainly as rented accommodation and as some of Melbourne’s most up-market guest and boarding houses. It was customary for many women to conduct boarding houses in the period, and Tasma Terrace was no exception. Women who conducted the various guest houses included Miss Sarah Gould, Elizabeth Gow and Jean Borelli. The name “Tasma” was associated first with terrace number 14 (originally the Nipper family residence) in 1905 when Elizabeth Gow conducted it as a private hotel named the “Tasma Guest House”. Tasma Trrace’s proximity to the city made it ideal accommodation for politicians, businessmen, journalists and entertainers.
One of the most famous occupants was lawyer and future Prime Minister Harold Holt who lived at Tasma Terrace in 1934. Other uses for parts of Tasma Terrace included a trained nurses’ home in the late 1890s and medical suites in the 1940s and 1960s. For many years, number 14 was combined with an adjacent three storey building built around 1900 as the Tasma Guest House, but both were demolished for a seven-level office block in 1940. The office block became infamously known as the “Beirut Hilton” because of its dilapidated state and was in turn demolished in 1995 to provide an entry for the new Park Hyatt Hotel.
After the Second World War, in a changed world, Tasma Terrace attracted a very different clientele, of more humble means. Some tenants included those who were marginalised by society and endured a range of health and social problems, including Vietnam War veterans. From 1941 Maurice Branagan conducted the Tasma Guest House in numbers 2, 4 and 6 for thirty years, including a successful restaurant, which specialised in mushrooms home grown in the basement. By the early 1970s all six remaining buildings were the property of the Crown Lands Department, and there were plans to demolish the buildings, which were considered by that time to be very rundown. The terrace was saved by a concerted conservation campaign, led by the National Trust and various organisations and individuals. However the three-storey rear wings, which comprised many small rooms used as bedrooms for the guest houses, kitchens, staff rooms and bathrooms were all demolished. A glass conservatory was erected across the rear of the retained front portions to provide a rear link across the terrace.
The then Victorian Premier Sir Rupert Hamer, who was primarily responsible for securing the terrace for the National Trust, officially opened the completed National Trust headquarters on 24 March 1979, ten years after the battle to save Tasma Terrace began. This event is recorded in a plaque on the exterior southern end of the terrace along the St Andrew’s Place façade.
In 1979 the façade was restored to its original Nineteenth Century appearance. It is believed that the restoration work at Tasma Terrace was the first serious attempt to accurately restore the exterior paint colours of a Nineteenth Century building in Victoria by undertaking paint scrapings. The repainting in browns and greens was almost shocking in 1979, when cast-iron balconies were routinely painted white. The Portland cement render of the façade was left untreated but lower parts were cleaned with a low pressure spray of water. The fine decorative cast iron is unusual. The verandah brackets join to form graceful arches and the circular gothic ‘quatrefoil’ elements within them reflect the churches nearby. The cast iron features include the delicate, balanced leaf motif on the balconies and tassel-like spearheads on the fence railings. The oak wood grain effect of the front doors is a reproduction of the original finish. The main glazing of the doorways is not original but a reproduction of that typical of the period. The ground floor verandahs are paved with encaustic tiles. Replacement tiles were manufactured in England.
There are many surviving Victorian interior elements including heavily modelled cornices, high ceilings and sweeping arches. The National Trust undertook a elaborate restoration for the ground level of numbers 2 and 4 to illustrate how these rooms would have originally appeared. Samples of wallpaper were removed and the original wood-graining, varnishing and paintwork revealed by careful scraping. Redecoration of these areas evolved as closely as possible according to the materials and styles of the original. It should be noted that this is not a restoration of what was originally there but rather a careful recreation of a typical late 19th century decorative scheme.
Wallpapers were chosen from existing English and French ranges in preference to reproduction of original papers which would have been too expensive. Some of these wallpapers, including dadoes, borders and friezes are authentic Victorian designs while others are adapted from earlier designs. The furnishing of these areas has been largely dictated by the intended functions of the rooms and also by the objects available from the Trust’s collections. The curtains and swags were made up and draped in the Victorian manner. Most of the fireplaces are original although some were relocated from other parts of the terrace, including the basement. Some replacement pieces were obtained from wreckers’ yards. The light fittings are not original but are reproductions of both gas and early electric lights. The terrace has Baltic pine tongue and groove floors throughout, except for basement areas. The cast iron, marble topped Prince Albert hall stand (circa 1860) is a valuable piece from the Trust’s Dr E. Graeme Robertson cast iron collection.
Tasma Terrace is an important work of the distinguished architect, Charles Webb, whose other works include the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School (1856), Church of Christ in Swanston Street (1863), Wesley College (1864), the Royal Arcade (1869), the Alfred hospital (1869), Toorak’s “Mandeville Hall” (1876), the South Melbourne Town Hall (1879), East Melbourne’s “Mosspennoch” (1882), the Grand hotel, later the Windsor (1884) and “Charsfield” on St Kilda Road (1889).
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ArcStart is a three-week long residential program for high school students that offers students the opportunity to explore the built environment firsthand through an introduction to architectural design. Participants will experience the rewarding intensity of an engaging college architecture studio, partake in skill-building workshops that reinforce analytical and conceptual problem solving skills, and visit architecturally significant projects in Ann Arbor and the immediate region. Photos courtesy Yojairo Lomeli
"The architectural design of O'Neil Ford demonstrates his ability to design a residence intimately tied to its setting. This home rests on the banks of one of North Dallas' highly sought after neighborhoods taking full advantage of the meandering creek and approximately 1.19 acres of mature landscaping. As one of the most significant modernist homes in Dallas, it has been painstakingly returned to its original splendor over the last several years at the hands of a well-known interior and art designer from Los Angeles. Collaborators of the original home include landscape design by Arthur and Marie Berger, landscape lighting by John Watson, interior lighting by Lynn Ford, and Scott Lyons designed an addition to the home in 1961. O'Neil Ford is widely regarded as the most important Texas architect from the 20th century and this important home is a hidden gem that speaks well for small modern residential design." - Ellen Terry, Realtors
Standing in the middle of Memorial Square in the heart of Colac, facing Murray Street is the Colac War Memorial.
Built rather like a classical temple of Roman or Grecian origin, the war memorial is built of sandstone and was erected as a tribute to those who both fought and died in the Great War (1914 - 1918), but it has been supplemented with plaques to other conflicts that occurred in later times. The shrine is engraved "1914 The Shire's Tribute 1918" and features places where conflict took place during the Great War; Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, Flanders, Pozieres, Polygon Wood, Bullecourt, Paschendale, Viller Brettoneux and Mont St Quinton. The Colac War Memorial was unveiled by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel (1865 - 1945) on the 15th November, 1924. The cost of the memorial was ₤3600.00 and it was built by the monument manufacturers Sale and Keape. There are the names of 1665 men who had enlisted during the war. Those who died as a result of the conflict have their names picked out in gold lettering. A pine tree taken as a cutting from the original Lone Pine tree in Galippoli has been planted at the rear of the shrine on a lush piece of lawn.
Located approximately 150 kilometres to the south-west of Melbourne, past Geelong is the small Western District city of Colac. The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1837 by pastoralist Hugh Murray. A small community sprung up on the southern shore of a large lake amid the volcanic plains. The community was proclaimed a town, Lake Colac, in 1848, named after the lake upon which it perches. The post office opened in 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854 when the city changed its name. The township grew over the years, its wealth generated by the booming grazing industries of the large estates of the Western District and the dairy industry that accompanied it. Colac has a long high street shopping precinct, several churches, botanic gardens, a Masonic hall and a smattering of large properties within its boundaries, showing the conspicuous wealth of the city. Today Colac is still a commercial centre for the agricultural district that surrounds it with a population of around 10,000 people. Although not strictly a tourist town, Colac has many beautiful surviving historical buildings or interest, tree lined streets. Colac is known as “the Gateway to the Otways” (a reference to the Otway Ranges and surrounding forest area that is located just to the south of the town).
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Aspley, a residential suburb which grew during the 1970s, lies 12 km north of central Brisbane along Gympie Road. It is crossed by the Cabbage Tree Creek and the Little Cabbage Tree Creek and was originally known by the latter name.
Land sales for small farms in the area began in 1857, and ended in 1866. The suburb takes its name from the property of John Morris, whose allotment was purchased in 1865 and located in Maundrell Terrace near the State school.
The Royal Exchange Hotel in Gympie Road opened in 1875, later providing a general provision shop for local farmers. In addition to the farm community there were bone mills, and several noxious industries along Little Cabbage Tree Creek. Hutton's bacon factory in Zillmere, provided a ready market for Aspley farmers' livestock. Not all local industry was smelly effluvium: a vineyard was situated near Maundrell Terrace during the 1870s-90s and Griffiths Sweets opened a confectionary factory in Gympie Road in 1920.
In 1890 the Little Cabbage Tree school was opened. By then many people were growing tired of the name and by 1897 both the school and the post office were renamed Aspley. During 1910-20 the population increased to over 400. A public hall was opened, and it was felt that dedicated open spaces were needed. George Marchant, a soft drink manufacturer, donated Marchant Park on the south-east corner of Aspley to the local Kedron Shire Council. Church services were held in the hall or in private homes until a non-denominational church was built in 1931.
Situated away from a railway line and beyond the Chermside tram terminus in Gympie Road, Aspley continued as a farm community until the 1950s. In 1952 an early residential subdivision was marketed, with allotments offered at the corner of Gympie and Robinson Roads. A new shopping centre set back for car parking followed, a further sign of the emerging suburban revolution. Within ten years Aspley was promoted as a garden suburb, with mostly single level detached houses, many built in styles established in the southern states. A drive-in theatre opened in 1962 along Albany Creek Road (partly damaged by fire in 2003) and in 1971 a drive-in supermarket was established. Aspley High, Aspley East primary and a Catholic primary school were opened 1963-64. Within ten years Aspley schools were bulging at the seams, the pressure only relieved when Craigslea State primary school opened in 1972. Craigslea high school opened in 1975.
An enormous Pick 'N Pay Hypermarket was opened in Gympie Road in 1984, its entrance swallowing the site of the old public hall. Between the Hypermarket and Cabbage Tree Creek, on an old bone meal factory site, there is the Aspley Acres caravan park. Meanwhile, new residential subdivisions rolled past Aspley into Carseldine and Bridgeman Downs, and by 1990 the Sunday Sun was opining that Aspley had outgrown first home buyers. In fact it was by then 'old Aspley', as former parts had been hived off as new suburbs.
The Aspley branch of the Bank of Queensland was dramatically blown up by bank robbers in 2008 and the bank branch destroyed.
Aspley history: Queensland Places – Aspley
The colorful facade and creative architecture of the Urban Discovery Academy in downtown San Diego provides an inspiring setting for its students.
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In its current incarnation as the Rendezvous Grand, the hotel on Melbourne's Flinders Street was once in fact, the Commercial Travellers Association Building.
The Commercial Travellers Association Building was designed by architect Harry Tompkins in 1912 and completed in 1913. It is one of the finest and most distinct expressions of the Edwardian Baroque style in Melbourne. This grand classical non-domestic style, featuring a combination of Beaux Arts Classicism with a revival of English Baroque sources, was adopted as the style of choice for department stores, emporiums and other large commercial establishments in Melbourne in the first two decades of the 20th Century. It was thus an eminently suitable style for the headquarters of the roving disciples of commerce, the Commercial Travellers Association. The building was the winning entry in a competition organised by the Association and judged by the well-respected Percy Oakden, an indication of the high regard in which the building was held by Harry Tompkins' architect peers.
The Commercial Travellers Association Building is of architectural significance for a number of innovations, such as the use of welded wire reinforcing mesh, perhaps the first use of such material in Victoria, and "Mack" slab cement partitions, the only known use of this technology in Victoria. It was also one of Australias earliest steel framed buildings. It comprises a basement and nine storeys. The ground floor is faced with granite. The facade above is partially rendered and partially faced with (formerly) cream glazed bricks. An unusual feature, the choice of such bricks was used to combat discolouration caused by pollution from the busy city thoroughfare and the nearby railway yards opposite. The rendered areas are treated in an ornate fashion, with exaggerated classical detailing including foliated swags, medallions and cartouches. It features a colonnade of the second floor (also known as a piano nobile), which is supported on massive, oversized consoles. Consoles also support the cornice surmounting the facade. Oriel windows rise through the second and third floors and are topped with balconettes. There are also balconettes on the eighth floor.
Leadlight is featured in some of the windows, mainly at the lower levels. The building is an early example of steel-framed construction, with reinforced concrete floors and a combination of terra cotta lumber and cement slab for non-structural internal walls. The building also boasted equipment such as a built-in vacuum cleaning plant, electrically heated service lifts, potato peeling machines, telephones in each room (the height of opulent luxury), a dish washing machine and large electric toaster. The building was also the tallest in Melbourne until the construction of the Manchester Unity Building, completed in 1932, and the first to be constrained to the new city height limit of one hundred and thirty two feet. The Commercial Travellers Association Building is of architectural significance as one of the most impressive buildings created by Harry Tompkins.
The building ceased functioning as the Commercial Travellers Association club in 1976 and fell into disrepair before being partially restored as the Duxton Hotel in the late 1990s. When commercial viability saw the Duxton close its doors, the Rendezvous Hospitality Group took on the project of meticulously restoring the hotel, retaining the elegant style of the early 1900s while providing guests with all the convenience of the 21st Century; what today is known as the Rendezvous Grand Hotel.
Harry Tompkins was one of Melbourne's best commercial architects during the first three decades of the 20th Century. He had a long relationship with the Commercial Travellers Association and also with Sydney Myer, for whom he designed the first Myer Emporium building. Harry Tompkins served two terms as President of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects between 1914 and 1916, a reflection of his esteemed position in the architectural profession. Other well-known buildings for which he was responsible include Dimmeys Model Stores on Swan Street in Richmond, the London Stores on Bourke Street and the Centreway Arcade in Collins Street.
From the Plastic Traction Robot project via Steven Guerrisi's architecture portfolio. The collection robot begins the plastic removal process as it travels out to polluted ocean waters. As the collection robot floats, the undulation of the ocean waves move the robot wings which have hydraulic pumps to add compressed air into reservation tanks. When enough air is collected, the buoyancy of the collection robot changes, and it sinks downward collecting plastic particulates in a cylindrical volume of water, 30 meters below the ocean surface. At the maximum depth of the dive, the collection robot releases the compressed air from its tanks, simultaneously closing the wings and propelling the robot upward to the surface water.
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Project Name: Red Box
Project Type: 2 story addition to one story home
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Morningside, a residential suburb on Wynnum Road, is five km east of central Brisbane. Travel by road or rail is considerably further.
In 1889 the South Brisbane to Cleveland railway line was opened, and the Bulimba railway station was situated at the present position of Morningside. The line provoked the Bulimba Railway Station estate (1888), but the name Morningside soon took on. An early European settler, David Longlands, owned the Morningside Estate (Wynnum, Thynne, Lytton and Junction Roads). The inspiration for the name was apparently the sight of nearby hills catching the rising sun, or the locality being on the morning (eastern) side of Brisbane.
A brick Methodist church in Thynne Road was opened in 1902. The area remained beyond the limits of metropolitan Brisbane until the years after World War I. A tannery (1876) was positioned beside some waterholes south of the railway line and continued there until 1900. Away to the north in Colmslie, a plague hospital (1900) and a stock quarantine facility were built. The area was named after Colmslie House (1881) near the corner of Thynne and Lytton Roads, built by Captain William Cairncross.
In the 1920s a school of arts (1926) and a picture theatre were opened around the railway station. A State primary school, near Balmoral and Hawthorne but in Morningside, was opened in 1923. (Balmoral Park and Balmoral Cemetery are also inside Morningside's western boundary.) Balmoral Shire had its offices in Wynnum Road east of the station and there was a row of shops which included four stores, a fish shop, a bootmaker, a butcher, a chemist and a motor garage.
From under 2000 people in 1920, Morningside had nearly 5000 by the early postwar years. Evidence of the healthy growth was signified by four butchers instead of one in Wynnum Road, and a child health centre. The theatre and the school of arts - a handsome brick building on its own reserve - were the cultural attractions. Local employment was found at the Cairncross graving dock (1944) in Colmslie and at the Cannon Hill saleyards.
With a population climbing to 11,000 for Morningside and Cannon Hill by the 1960s, the Wynnum Road shopping strips were ripe for competition. Arndale built a drive-in shopping centre, midway between the two, in 1969, at the Junction Road corner opposite the Colmslie Hotel. Known as Morningside Central (really in-between) it has become the district's retail and commercial centre.
In addition to Morningside's primary school there are secondary schools on its borders, Balmoral High and Cannon Hill Anglican College. A short distance from the primary school on Pashen Street there is the heritage-listed Balmoral fire station (1927).
Morningside history: Queensland Places – Morningside
The Parcel Media Display, Raise Hand button, and seat scripts are the Interactive features that were included in the final design of the Studio Wikitecture 4.0 Virtual Classroom.
The Parcel Media Display, Raise Hand button, and seat scripts are the Interactive features that were included in the final design of the Studio Wikitecture 4.0 Virtual Classroom.