Six Degrees Architects work on the Albert Park College Environmental Arts Hub received two awards at the 2017 Victorian Architecture Awards: the Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture and the John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture Amid the lamented recent loss of local …
Port Melbourne
Mid-winter Port
On this grey showery solstice morning, the Port Melbourne Icebergs took the inaugural solstice plunge. Nearby, a man holding a wreath to his chest swam out into the bay, and returned without it. It was an olive wreath, said the swimmer, created on 1 May and set adrift on 21 June - a more ancient …
EES – 1987 & 2017
Environmental Effects Statement under the Environment Effects Act 1978 The house at 58 Station Street, Port Melbourne is for sale. Somehow this very small house has survived. Thirty years ago Mrs Myrtle Tims, then 89, sat on her verandah in the late afternoon sun mourning the loss of …
Lagoon Reserve
Lagoon Reserve is a small park in Port Melbourne that was once part of the Sandridge Lagoon. How to describe the essence of this park? It has people at its centre, and 'nature' at its edges. That grassy centre gets a workout every day of the week, all year round. A gathering place for people …
1-7 Waterfront Place
A planning application will soon be decided by the Port Phillip Council for the blighted, fire ravaged site at 1-7 Waterfront Place, Port Melbourne. The site's deterioration and dereliction following fires in September 2014 has been a source of deep exasperation to all and there's a mood in …
Piers Festival Adaptation
Princes Pier was to have come to life on Sunday for the 6th Annual Piers Festival but a severe weather warning means it will now be held at the South Melbourne Town Hall. In between events Princes Pier leads a quiet life – its long smooth wide concrete deck well suited to walking and riding. The …