ADMS 21st Birthday, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne

We started as SADV - Society Art Deco Victoria and after a couple of name changes we're now the Art Deco & Modernism Society.

Tonight we celebrated our 21st Birthday with a cocktail party in the Melba Foyer, upstairs at Her Majesty's Theatre.

Founding President, Susie Lloyd and current President, Robin Grow, shared the honours cutting the cake.

Apartments, Marina

Interesting apartments in the Marina district of San Francisco.

1490 Jefferson Street, Marina

This lovely apartment block is at 1490 Jefferson Street, Marina on the corner of Fillmore Street.

The decoration at the roofline directly above the entrance is gorgeous but perhaps not as good as that a lover level just above the doorway.

former Tyre Power, Gundagai

The former Tyre Power in Gundagai, NSW is looking a bit sad but with a little work it could be lovely again like the Bridgestone Service Centre across the road.

A House in Pahiatua

I spotted this sweet house as we were driving through Pahiatua on our way down to Wellington. I particularly like the dark outline around the roofline not to mention the lighting bolt on the corner and the substantial stepped side entrance.

Harvey's Building, Hastings

Don't you just love it … No not the mini digger or the cop car or even the workmen taking a break sitting on the footpath under the verandah. Just look past all that to the lovely Spanish Mission style building behind. Harvey's Building or to be more accurate, the former Harvey's Building. It is now the Hastings Community Arts Centre. It was designed by Albert Garnett and built in 1933 and inside there is this marvellous Art Deco skylight.

Reference:
Spanish Mission Hastings - Styles of Five Decades, Peter Shaw & Peter Hallett, Cosmos Publications, Napier, 1991

Royal York Hotel, Toronto

Since the mid 19th Century this site in Toronto has been the location of a hotel under various names. Sword's Hotel and the Revere Hotel laid the foundations for the Queen's Hotel which became a much loved institution into the 20th Century until the Canadian Pacific Railway announced that they wed going to build a new hotel on the site which is directly opposite Union Station.

The Queen's Hotel was demolished and in 1927 work commenced on what was promised to be the largest hotel in the British Commonwealth. It was named the Royal York Hotel and was officially opened on 11 June 1929 and quickly became the byword for the best in hospitality. In later years the hotel became part of the Fairmont group and is known as the Fairmont Royal York Hotel.

Reference:
Fairmont Royal York Hotel website

Building, San Telmo

You can find deco in the backstreets of San Telmo if you can drag yourself away from the Sunday market in Plaza Dorrego. This commercial building, probably with residential quarters on the second floor, is in a street called Bolivar.