Brave New World

Max Dupain

1935

National Gallery of Australia

Grace Hotel, Sydney

Showpiece of an Art Deco architecture with a distinguished Neo-Gothic exterior (based on the Chicago Tribune Building)

Architects: DT Morrow and PJ Gordon

Built by Grace Bros. in the 1920s as a showpiece of their successful retail business, The Grace Hotel has been beautifully restored to its former glory, making one of Sydney’s most prominent historical landmark.

Photo by darthdowney @ Flickr

The Sun Theatre, Yarraville

Yarraville is a suburb 6 km west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Located near the Yarraville railway station on Anderson and Ballarat Streets, this area of the suburb is renowned in Melbourne for its unique character, architecture and quality of village life. Anderson and Ballarat Streets, in the heart of the Yarraville Village, are lined with refurbished 19th century buildings and dotted with quaint neighbourhood cafés, restaurants and boutique shops.
This village atmosphere is anchored by the restored Sun Theatre and the adjacent Sun bookshop, a prominent landmark in the Yarraville community with its unique art deco architecture and its 6 cinemas. Notable examples of Edwardian and Victorian architecture can be found in Yarraville.

Photo & text by Helefran @ Flickr

Railway Club Hotel

28 Station St, Seymour, Victoria

Photo by Chris&Steve @ Flickr

Australian Gothic

Art deco style decoration roof top of the Manchester Unity building,
220 Collins Street (Cnr Swanston Street), Melbourne
Built 1932
Architect: Marcus Barlow

Photo by Chris&Steve @ Flickr

Across the Green Continent

via paul.malon @ Flickr

Flying Tube

Stipa-Caproni tubular fuselage monoplane

1932

It basically was a flying venturi tube with a 120 h.p. de Havilland Gipsy III engine fitted inside it, while the propeller turned in the front edge of the tube. The crew sat in a bulge on top of the fuselage.

Australian 3/5-scale replica built by Bruce Wolf for Aerotec Pty. Ltd.,
powered by a 75 h.p. Simmonini Vee Twin engine.

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