Designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1958 is it one of the fabulous Modernist buildings that make Brasilia such an interesting city.
The statue, a Justiça (Justice), in front of the court dates from 1961 and was sculpted by Alfredo Ceschiatti.
Huge columns and that wide expanse of concrete around the roofline. Everything about this building is so enormous, except the windows. There are several small porthole windows above the doorways and the regular rectangular windows are very small in contrast to the overall bulk of the building.
They also live in this former bank, dating from 1933, on the corner of Broadway & Shephard Street, Chippendale in Sydney, NSW.
This is former Police and Firs Station No 10, now just Fire Station No 25. It was designed by Harold Edgar Shorey and Samuel Douglas Richie.
The doors to the separate police & fire sections of the building are marked with simple block letters. Police on one side of the building with the bays for the fire engines around the corner.
It is still a pub, well there is a cafe/bar on the ground floor and the building is in a prime location on Broadway in Chippendale.
I didn't have time even to pop across and look inside but I imagine anything deco would have been stripped from the public areas.
The figure on the façade does seem to have a religious theme but closer examination proves her to to be purely theatrical.
Inside, the foyer is quite sparse but does have a very stylish staircase off to one side and just inside the front doors, a vent on the floor bears the Trocadero name.
Reference:
Cine Trocadero, Montevideo, cinematreasures.org
It is the JK Memorial designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1980 (yes the nineteen-eighties!!!) for the former Brazilian President and founder of Brasilia, Juscelino Kubitschek.
Who assembled here? Who uses it now and why have the windows been bricked up with such unsympathetic bricks?
I first glimpsed this building several years ago from Footscray Road, just before it takes a dog-leg and ducks under the Geelong Road overpass. Since then I have always looked for it when passing but never ventured down for a closer look and to take a few photos ... until now.
The Art Deco plaque above Elisa's name, however, relates to Lieutenant Jorge Chapman who was associated with the Military Aviation School but unfortunately died in a plane crash fulfilling his duties on 19 March 1925. 
That's where you'll find the Army's Escola de Educação Física do Exército (Physical Education School) with it's central entrance marked by a series of four white stepped fins.
Early this year I wrote about the former City of Footscray Town Hall designed by architect Joseph Plottel and opened in 1936. I'd never been inside and I got the chance to have a quick look the other day. Unfortunately I didn't get to see any of the grander rooms and I imagine there are some in this fine building. No I got to duck up some side stairs to have a look at an exhibition. On the way I snapped these leadlight windows.
A sports area that several soccer pitches fills the space between the street where the apartment block is and the main road carrying traffic to the ferry terminal and the eastern suburbs of Montevideo.
It was designed by architect Alberto Prebisch and constructed in quicktime between March 20 and May 23 1936. It was built to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Buenos Aires using concrete and Olaen white stone from Córdoba.
MELBOURNE ART DECO
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