Normally I don't admire red brick buildings in Melbourne and I feel sorry for people who don't have at least modest front yards. But Garden Ave is gorgeous. Clearly they planted trees and bushes along the kerb to give the street a leafy, green appearance. And the glass stair wells (is that what they are?) flood light in.
Thanks Hels. It is a wonderful little enclave of red brick buildings jammed between a busy road and the railway line but from afar it still seems to be great retreat. Each of the buildings is different but are stylistically linked which adds to the appeal. I think you are right about the vertical areas of glass letting light into the stairwells.
I lived in this building in the 1980's, on the second floor with a little balcony giving on to the corner of Garden Avenue, great building, it was a little bedsit apartment. The rounded windows that you see in the vertical panes are indeed in the stairwell
Normally I don't admire red brick buildings in Melbourne and I feel sorry for people who don't have at least modest front yards. But Garden Ave is gorgeous. Clearly they planted trees and bushes along the kerb to give the street a leafy, green appearance. And the glass stair wells (is that what they are?) flood light in.
ReplyDeleteThanks Hels. It is a wonderful little enclave of red brick buildings jammed between a busy road and the railway line but from afar it still seems to be great retreat. Each of the buildings is different but are stylistically linked which adds to the appeal. I think you are right about the vertical areas of glass letting light into the stairwells.
ReplyDeleteI lived in this building in the 1980's, on the second floor with a little balcony giving on to the corner of Garden Avenue, great building, it was a little bedsit apartment. The rounded windows that you see in the vertical panes are indeed in the stairwell
ReplyDeleteGreat spot to live Roland. Close to the city and the 'G'.
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