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Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Week 3: Materials and elements: Stone in Melbourne Bluestone (or basalt), eg: Footscray and Malmsbury. Bluestone: St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, 5 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne (1858-99) Wiliam Wardell. Spires and west front entry (1936-40), W P Connolly & G W Vanheems. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Bluestone paving, Swanston Street, from Port Fairy quarry. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Granite, eg: Harcourt and Dromana. Shrine of Remembrance, St Kilda Road, Melbourne (1927-34, forecourt, 1950-54, Ernest E Milston, and additions 2003, Ashton Raggatt McDougall). The Shrine is a brick building clad externally in Tynong granite. Shrine of Remembrance. Sandstone, eg: Stawell and Barrabool; Hawksbury and Pyrmont. Melbourne Town Hall, 1867-70, Reed and Barnes, portico: Stawell, Grampians sandstone. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Limestone, eg: Barrabool Hills and Mt Gambier. Heide 2, Museum of Modern Art Heide, Bulleen (former John & Sunday Reed House), 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen, McGlashan & Everist Architects, 1960. Mount Gambier limestone. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Slate roof from Wales, UK.. Francis Ormond Building, RMIT Building 1, Bowen Street, cnr La Trobe Street, 1885. Terry & Oakden and Nahum Barnet. Stage 2 1890. Architect: Oakden, Addison and Kemp. Facings: Barrabool sandstone, dressings: Waurn Ponds limestone. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Marble State Library, 304-306 Swanston Street foyer, 1913: oyster mid-grey and dark grey Black Buchan marble, both from Buchan, Victoria and Bianco Carrara white marble, from Carrara, Italy. Kitchen benchtops. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Stucco Decorative render. Brick, with decorative stucco render to facades: Trades Hall, Lygon Street, cnr Victoria Street, Carlton, 1873, Reed & Barnes, 1882- 84, 1888, 1890, 1917, 1922-26 & 1961. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Metals Iron (wrought and cast), steel, corten, zinc (roof), copper (roof, roof-plumbing and shopfronts), lead, bronze and brass. Massive cast-iron gerberette brackets, connected vertically by tensile rods, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1971-77). Renzo Piano of Renzo Piano Building Workshop (1937-) and Richard Rodgers, of Richard Rodgers Partnership. Centre Pompidou, Paris. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Unidentified cast-iron lace, 2 houses, inner Melbourne. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Wrought iron fence, Parliament Gardens, Spring Street. Corten steel: Third Wave Kiosk, Torquay, Great Ocean Road, 2013, Tony Hobba Architect. Recycled sheet pile, self-protecting cold-rolled weather-resistant steel. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Copper domes, Flinders Street Station, Elizabeth Street, cnr Swanston Street, 1901-11, F W Fawcett & H P C Ashworth, Railways Department, Victoria. Bronze statue, granite pedestal Sir Thomas Blaney, 1960, Kings Domain, cnr Government House Drive and Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Eros, Shaftsbury Monument (a fountain), Piccadilly Circus, London, the first UK large aluminium casting, Alfred Gilbert, 1886-93. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Tiles Types: encaustic, eg: Minton; faience, terra-cotta, ceramic, quarry and mosaic. Minton encaustic tiles, c1860. The Saloon floor, Werribee Park. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Faience Manchester Unity Building, Collins/Swanston Streets, Marcus Barlow, 1932. Faience cladding. Jazz Moderne. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Mosaic Mosaic mural: Newspaper House, 247 Collins Street, Napier Waller, 1932. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Windows Window types: fenestration, double-hung sash, casement, canted bay, or rectangular bay, bow window, oriel, oculus, dormer, stained glass (eg: Clayton & Bell), leadlight, and drawn glass. Leadlight glass. Federation domestic leadlight glass. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Stained glass window: Christian Waller, artist,1894-1954. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Oculus. Window types. Also: eyebrow, fanlight, sidelight, lantern, louvered, thermal (Diocletian), French, rose, pavement light. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Renaissance palace in Rome, c1600, casement windows and shutters, balconette and balcony. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Window terms: light, sash, mullion (vertical dividing member separating lights), glazing bar, stile (vertical member at the edge of a sash), rail (horizontal member of a sash)), and shutter. The first double-hung sashes, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire (c1676-80). Double-hung sash. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Double-hung sash. Fanlight and sidelights, Heriot Row, Edinburgh, Robert Reid, architect, 1802-08. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Bay window, Federation house, Campion College, (former Dalswraith), 99 Studley Park Road, Kew, 1906, Architect Henry Hardie Kemp (1859-1946) of Ussher & Kemp. Free style shops pair, with first floor oriel bow windows, c1920. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 First floor oriel bow windows, Smith Street, Collingwood, c1920. Photo: Ben Eddie, September 2014. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Roofs Roof shapes include: flat, skillion, gabled, hipped, mansard, Dutch gable, vaulted and domed. Materials include: metal, slate, Marseilles terra-cotta tile and Cordoba tile. Marseilles terra-cotta tile. Cordova terra-cotta tile. Terra-cotta cresting and finial. Kangaroo finial and cresting, house, 93 Elizabeth Street, cnr Lennox Street, c1910, Richmond, made in France, now demolished. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Verandahs Verandah types: concave, convex, bull-nosed, or skillion), loggia, belvedere, temple-front (or aedicule), porch, portico, porte cochere. Valence and brackets. Loggias have wide arches open to the street, as a transitional space to a palace. Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria, adjoining Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals, 1376-82, Benci di Cione and Simone di Francesco Talenti, designed by Jacopo di Sione, for assemblies of the people and public ceremonies. Australian bull-nosed verandah, Canterbury, c1870. Corrugated iron, and metal acroteria, with timber picket fence and gate. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Porte cochere. Rippon Lea (house), 192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick, Reed & Barnes, Architects. Cast-iron, with lace valence and brackets. Porch, Barwon Park (house), Winchelsea, 1869, Davidson & Henderson, Architects. Porch, with lace valence, balustrade and acroteria. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Roman Revival Corinthian temple front prostyle portico, Baptist Church, 170-174 Collins Street, 1861-62, by Reed and Barnes, Architects. Belvedere - an architectural element sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view Belvedere: the Baghdad Kiosk, Upper terrace, with İftar bower and fountain, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, affording a view on the Golden Horn, 1640-48. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Façade elements including: bays, stories, piano nobile, frontispiece, dressings, quoins, piano nobile, attic, attic storey, and parapet. Treasury Building, Spring Street, facing Collins Street: J J Clarke (aged 19, never an architect), 1858-62 and 1867, Bacchus Marsh sandstone, iron frame, 13 bays, 3 stories, piano nobile, 2 frontispieces, quoins, aedicules, piano nobile, and attic storey. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Courtyards Types include: atrium, court and cloister. Atrium: House of the Faun, Pompeii, 200-100 BC. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Atrium, Galleries Layfayette Department Store, Paris, 1905, Frantz Jourdain, glass domed atrium. Atrium, Myer Melbourne, Bourke Street, Melbourne, NH Architects, 2013. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Cloister: San Paolo Fuori le Mura, Rome, 1220-41. Courtyard: Sir Roy Grounds (1905-81), of Grounds Romberg & Boyd, own house, 24 Hill Street, Toorak, 1953-54. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 Pavillions Villa Barbaro, Maser, Treviso, Italy, Andrea Palladio, 1560-70. Frontispiece, giant order, 19 bays, 3 linked pavilions, 2 arcades, 2 wings, 2 parapet gables and 1 temple-front. Richard Peterson Architect, RMIT Lectures, Words About Buildings in Melbourne, 2014 .