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Modernist Adelaide

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 421 705 947

Address: GPO Box 835 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

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21.01.2022 This Saturday morning I’ll be revealing my five favourite Adelaide buildings on ABC Adelaide with Deb Tribe from 10:05am ACST. Listen live at 891AM or http://www.abc.net.au/radio/adelaide/live/ and feel free to share your favourites too! Call 1300 222 891 or text 0467 922 891. #modernistadelaide #modernist #modernism #midcenturymodern #midcenturymodernarchitecture #midcentury #midcenturyadelaide #architecture #brutalist #brutalism #concrete #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #archdaily #adlarchigram #adelaidearchitecture #adelaideheritage #australianmodern #australianmodernism #australianarchitecture #adelaide #southaustralia

18.01.2022 Looking for that perfect read for loved ones or yourself in these socially-distanced times? I’m happily shipping mint copies of Modernist Adelaide: 100 Buildings 1940s1970s, described by Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud as ‘splendid and beautiful and important’. My obsession with ensuring they reach you box-fresh means they’re also as infection-proof as it gets: printed in Adelaide in February, sealed in shrink-wrap, boxed in a protective cardboard mailer and sealed again in Australia Post’s finest post-bags. Available for immediate delivery at https://www.modernistadelaide.com//modernist-adelaide-100-

18.01.2022 Floating lightly amidst the heavily-wooded grounds of the 1902 Nunyara Sanitorium is the chapel of the former Methodist Memorial Youth Centre, 5 Burnell Drive Belair, designed by Maurice Doley of Cheesman, Doley, Brabham & Neighbour, 1962-63. This steel-frame glass box sits above a Basket Range freestone and concrete base, with views of the Adelaide Hills and Plains on three sides and a stone southern façade enclosing the choir. The refined but simple dignity of timber, straw...board ceilings and stone honour the natural setting in a welcoming domestic scale and form, encouraging a closer, informal relationship with the congregation. #modernistadelaide #modernist #modernism #mcm #midcenturymodern #midcenturymodernarchitecture #midcentury #midcenturyadelaide #architecture #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #archdaily #adlarchigram #adelaidearchitecture #adelaideheritage #australianmodern #australianmodernism #australianarchitecture #adelaide #garden #1960s #60s #church #glass #stone @ Nunyara Conference Centre See more

15.01.2022 Julian Montague’s beautiful cover of Modernist Adelaide: 100 Buildings 1940s1970s looking shelf-sharp at Dillons Norwood Bookshop, who’ve been wonderful supporters of the book. It’d make a pretty special Father’s Day gift, I reckon. Details and reviews at https://www.modernistadelaide.com//modernist-adelaide-100-

13.01.2022 The Prairie-style perfection of Michell House, Medindie, designed by Peter Muller, 1964. Adelaide-born and Sydney-based Muller’s return to Adelaide in 1964 for the construction of the IPEC Head Office on Glen Osmond Road led to the chance commission by the Michell wool family for their house, built with sandstone salvaged from the previous house demolished on the site. The organic influence on this hip-roofed, low-slung house was in contrast to the glassy international style ...houses in vogue with many architects at this time, yet it also acknowledged the massing and deep shadows of Adelaide’s stone bungalows of the 1920s. #modernistadelaide #modernist #modernism #mcm #midcenturymodern #midcenturymodernarchitecture #midcentury #midcenturyadelaide #architecture #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #archdaily #adlarchigram #adelaidearchitecture #adelaideheritage #australianmodern #australianmodernism #australianarchitecture #house #modernisthouse #midcenturyhouse #midcenturyhome #adelaide #australianhomes #garden #1960s #60s #nativegarden #organicarchitecture See more

12.01.2022 Thank you Dillons Norwood Bookshop and The Parade, Norwood for listing the Modernist Adelaide book as one of their top five reads for a literary lockdown!

11.01.2022 Sheer walls of highly-polished Moncervetto marble loom over the glazed ground floor of the Prince Alfred College Assembly Hall, 23 Dequetteville Terrace Kent Town, designed by John Morphett (a Saints boy) with college architect and old scholar Colin Hassell of Hassell, McConnell & Partners, 1963. Contrasting starkly with the surrounding nineteenth-century buildings, Jack McConnell specified the same Italian marble used on the firm’s earlier David Jones department store for th...ree of the hall’s facades, punctuated by vertical slit windows. Inside, marble columns contrast with rich timber detailing, terrazzo and parquetry floors. Thank you, Andrew and Scott from Prince Alfred College for the tour! #modernistadelaide #modernist #modernism #mcm #midcenturymodern #midcenturymodernarchitecture #midcentury #midcenturyadelaide #architecture #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #archdaily #adlarchigram #adelaidearchitecture #adelaideheritage #australianmodern #australianmodernism #australianarchitecture #adelaide #1960s #60s #school #glass #marble #hassellhistory @ Prince Alfred College See more

09.01.2022 It’s been a while but I can’t wait to hit the streets with the next Modernist Adelaide walking tours on Sunday 22 November. It feels better than ever to get out and explore the mid-century jet age of Mad Men era Adelaide, when a new wave of modernist architecture redefined the city’s streetscapes and skyline. Hope to see you soon. Book now at http://bit.ly/ModernistAdelaide

08.01.2022 Great fun working with Chloe Metcalfe on a piece in today’s Sunday Mail Home + Life magazine about the modern modernist home: how to embrace modernist design in a new build. https://www.realestate.com.au//a-modern-take-on-midcentur/

07.01.2022 Looming large over Largs is the parabolic-arched St Alban’s Anglican Church, 31 Jetty Road Largs Bay, designed by Don Thompson of Donald Thompson & Associates and opened in 1961. Don Thompson was the associate designer of the Jarosik House that we toured for Fitzroy Modern last year. The church’s striking design, which uses prefabricated concrete portal frames and infill roof panels that cascade almost to the ground, was described by a newspaper at the time as resembling an ‘upturned boat’. Can’t wait to visit on 18 November when Architecture Museum, University of South Australia’s Chris Burns will present for the Port Adelaide Historical Society Incorporated on modernist churches of the western suburbs. Tickets at https://fb.me/e/3FkJQbmet

05.01.2022 Autumn sun warms the former Royal & Sun Alliance Building, 45 Grenfell Street Adelaide, designed by Cheesman, Doley, Neighbour & Raffen, 1971-73. This 20-storey building was developed for Tower Property Developments and its construction evolved the use of modular loadbearing precast concrete window frames and panels as the structural outer shell which was first seen on IMFC House three years earlier. The quartic shape of the windows rectangles with the edges rounded off i...s classic seventies. It has an almost lunar feel, consistent with the era’s obsession with space-age design. #brutalistadelaide #modernistadelaide #modernist #modernism #midcenturyadelaide #architecture #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #archdaily #adlarchigram #adelaidearchitecture #adelaideheritage #australianmodern #australianmodernism #australianarchitecture #1970s #70s #adelaide #southaustralia #concrete #brutalist #brutalism #architectureporn #brutalistarchitecture #brutal_architecture #brutaladelaide See more

05.01.2022 FULLY BOOKED OUT. Looking forward to presenting on Adelaide’s hip and happening modernist architecture of the 1950s70s, including some fantastic mid-century houses in the Burnside area, hosted by the Burnside Historical Society, South Australia. Places are limited so please email [email protected] if you'd like to attend. 7:30pm Monday 21 September, Coralie Soward Hall, Burnside Community Centre (adjacent Burnside Library), 401 Greenhill Road, Tusmore. Pictured is Stewart Game’s architectural watercolour for a proposed new residence for CJ Legoe at Woodley (now Glen Osmond). https://facebook.com/events/s/modernist-adelaide-hip-happeni/2439788216337444/?ti=icl

03.01.2022 Almost obscured by dense landscaping is the soaring hyperbolic paraboloid timber shell roof of the former Alpine Restaurant, Golden Wattle Park / Mirnu Wirra, South Parklands Adelaide, designed by the Corporation of the City of Adelaide Building Surveyor’s Office, 1962-63. The roof covers the hexagonal dining area and features not one but three (!) self-supporting contiguous hyperbolic paraboloids made from laminated oregon boards. Celebrated at the time by the building indus...try, architectural critics were less taken with the restaurant’s Swiss chalet effect; the acerbic Cross-Section journal describing it as an ‘exercise in atrocious municipal pseudo-rustic’. #modernistadelaide #modernist #modernism #mcm #midcenturymodern #midcenturymodernarchitecture #midcentury #midcenturyadelaide #architecture #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #archdaily #adlarchigram #adelaidearchitecture #adelaideheritage #australianmodern #australianmodernism #australianarchitecture #adelaide #garden #1960s #60s #garden #restaurant #hyperbolicparaboloid #timber #alpinestyle See more

02.01.2022 Wishing you a relaxing, sunny Easter long weekend from the Church of the Resurrection, 31-33 King William Road Unley, designed by Tolcher, Taylor & Tulloch, 1963-64. One of Adelaide’s earliest churches designed to increase participation through the placement of altar and pews, the exposed brick and timber interior is lit naturally by a light diffusion panel beneath the ceiling which also hides artificial lighting. Czech émigré Voitre Marek designed furnishings and ornamentati...on including the figure of the Risen Christ mounted externally on the window above the entrance. #modernistadelaide #godmod #modernist #modernism #mcm #midcenturymodern #midcenturymodernarchitecture #midcentury #midcenturyadelaide #architecture #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #archdaily #adlarchigram #adelaidearchitecture #adelaideheritage #australianmodern #australianmodernism #australianarchitecture #1960s #60s #adelaide #southaustralia #brick #architectureporn #church See more

01.01.2022 Spider legs in the wild! The outrageous arachno-outrigging of the former General Motors-Holden’s Company Vehicle Operations office, 180 John Rice Avenue Elizabeth South, designed by Woods, Bagot, Laybourne Smith & Irwin, 1964-65. The plate-glass and polished marble façade of this compact building is crowned by steel ceiling beams that extend beyond the roof then dive into the landscape. At the rear, they support a canopy sheltering petrol bowsers. Made famous by the Austrian-American modernist Richard Neutra, these ‘spider legs’ can also be seen in Adelaide at Brian Claridge’s 1958 Rose Park Kindergarten, which references his stunning Timber House at the 1956 Sixth Australian Architectural Convention Exhibition at Botanic Park.