This is Lonsdale House.
Pretty, isn’t it? Well, it’s being bulldozed. I don’t mind overly. I would prefer the building had been given some love before falling into disrepair, but that is the nature of property development in Melbourne. You let something fall into disrepair and no one will stop you knocking it down. The shame of the story is what will replace it.
Which is this.
Nice and appropriate, don’t you think. There is even a television on that wall in another picture (I can’t get a good res picture of it). The street is art deco. The whole street and we are going to bookend it with this? I’m not against modern architecture, but I would like to see our commercial architects build a future classic. I can’t foresee people protesting against it’s demolition in 80 years time as I have with the demise of the Lonsdale building.
Here is an artist rendition of it’s impact on the space around it.
Low impact…
