It seems bizarre to imagine Cremorne as a crucible of radical architecture. But some of the 20th century’s first flat-roofed houses were built around this Sydney harbour district, long before Bauhaus boxes shocked Europe during the 1920s.
Edition Office s Fitzroy apartment building in Melbourne is a bold contemporary statement for local developer Milieu, with minimalist concrete architecture
Jackson finds that Freeland’s history holds up in the hindsight of more rigorous research, although she claims it mentions too few architects, which Jackson sets to ‘writes’ by name checking every architect with a significant building in Australia in the last 230 years.
Fawkner House is a new-build Melbourne apartment complex, channelling Le Corbusier s Notre Dame du Haut chapel, with curves that emphasise light and space