Australian non-residential architectural styles are a set of Australian architectural styles that apply to buildings used for purposes other than residence and have been around only since the first colonial government buildings of early European settlement of Australia in 1788.
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Their distribution follows closely the establishment and growth of the different colonies of Australia, in that the earliest colonial buildings can be found in New South Wales and Tasmania.
The classifications set out below are derived from a leading Australian text.[1]
- Old Colonial Georgian; Old Colonial Regency; Old Colonial Grecian; Old Colonial Gothic Picturesque
Early Colonial Gothic Picturesque
The Victorian period, generally aligned with the reign of Queen Victoria, covers the period from c. 1840 to c. 1890 and comprises fifteen styles, all prefaced by the word "Victorian", and are namely, in loose chronological order, Georgian, Regency, Egyptian, Academic Classical, Free Classical, Filigree, Mannerist, Second Empire, Italianate, Romanesque, Byzantine, Academic Gothic, Free Gothic, Tudor, Rustic Gothic, and Carpenter Gothic.
Victorian Georgian
An extension and continuation of the Old Colonial Georgian style into the Victorian era.[17] Georgian style houses built before c.1840 are characterised as Old Colonial Georgian, while buildings between c.1840 and c.1890 are characterised as Victorian Georgian. Both styles are essentially the same, being characterised by symmetrical facades, simple rectangular and prismatic shapes, and orderliness. Six and eight paned windows were common.[17]
Victorian Regency
As with Victorian Georgian architecture, the Victorian Regency style was a continuation of the Old Colonial Regency style into the Victorian era (c.1840 – c.1890).[18] A more elegant and refined form of the Georgian style.
Victorian Academic Classical
Victorian Free Classical
General Post Office, Sydney; built between 1866-91 and 1910 in the Free Classical and Italian Renaissance styles
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Albury Post Office, Albury. Completed 1880
Bathurst Courthouse, Bathurst. Completed 1880
Grahame's Corner, Sydney. Completed 1882
Gardiner House, Sydney. 1885
Goulburn Court House; built between 1885-87 and demonstrating Palladian concepts and Mannerist influences
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St Georges Hall,
Newtown. Completed 1887
Victoria Hotel in
Albert Park, Victoria; completed 1888
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Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne; completed in 1890
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Paddington Town Hall, Sydney; built between 1890-91
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Pinnacle House, Sydney. Completed 1892
Royal Naval House, Sydney. Completed 1890s
Hong Kong House, Sydney central business district
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Victorian Filigree
Old Sir Joseph Banks Hotel,
Botany. Italianate Filigree style completed c.1884.
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Reid's Coffee Palace,
Ballarat; completed 1886
Regatta Hotel, Brisbane, present building constructed in 1886.
Richard Gailey, architect.
Empire Hotel,
Fortitude Valley. Built in 1888 by Smith and Ball.
Richard Gailey, architect.
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Palace Hotel,
Broken Hill. Erected 1889.
[40] Alfred Dunn, architect.
Goodman's Buildings, Annandale, constructed in stages between 1890-1912.
Victorian Mannerist
Notable examples in Australia include: Culwulla Chambers (Sydney); Old Police Station, The Rocks Block Arcade (Melbourne); Stalbridge Chambers (Melbourne), National Bank Pall Mall (Bendigo); RESI Chambers (Melbourne); Lygon Buildings, Medley Hall (Carlton, Victoria); Former Money Order Post Office and Savings Bank (Melbourne); Mutual Store (Melbourne);
Victorian Second Empire
Notable examples include: Sydney Town Hall (Sydney); Hotel Windsor (Melbourne); Princess Theatre (Melbourne); Former Records Office (Melbourne); Melbourne General Post Office (Melbourne); Melbourne Town Hall (Melbourne); East Melbourne Synagogue (East Melbourne, Victoria); Royal Exhibition Building (Carlton, Victoria); Collingwood Town Hall (Collingwood, Victoria); South Melbourne Town Hall (South Melbourne, Victoria); Malvern Town Hall (Malvern, Victoria); Former Rechabite Hall (Prahran, Victoria); Brunswick Town Hall (Brunswick, Victoria); Camberwell Town Hall (Camberwell, Victoria); Bendigo Town Hall (Bendigo, Victoria); Shamrock Hotel (Bendigo Victoria); Bendigo Courthouse (Bendigo, Victoria); Bendigo Post Office (Bendigo, Victoria); Institute of Technology (Bendigo, Victoria); Queensland Parliament House (Brisbane)
Kew Asylum, Kew; completed 1871
East Melbourne Synagogue.
East Melbourne; completed 1877
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne; completed 1880
Former Rechabite Hall,
Prahran completed 1888
Malvern Town Hall, Malvern; completed 1890
Bendigo Town Hall, Bendigo; completed 1885
Bendigo Post Office,
Bendigo; completed 1892
Bendigo Court House,
Bendigo; completed 1892
Chief Secretary's Building, Sydney. Completed 1886. Also displays Victorian Free Classical architectural traits
Sydney Town Hall. Completed 1889
Waterloo Town Hall, Waterloo, New South Wales, with Victorian Italianate and Victorian Second Empire architectural elements. Completed 1881
Bathurst District Hospital,
Bathurst. Completed 1886
Tenterfield Post Office, Tenterfield with Victorian Second Empire and Victorian Italianate architectural elements. Completed 1880s
Victorian Romanesque
St Saviours Anglican Church,
Redfern
St Johns Church in
Glebe; completed 1870
Victorian Renaissance Revival
Victorian Academic Gothic
Victorian Tudor (Jacobethan)
Victorian Carpenter Gothic
Edwardian architecture is generally less ornate than high or late Victorian architecture,[47] apart from a subset - used for major buildings - known as Edwardian Baroque architecture.
12 styles, each style name prefaced by "Federation":
- Academic Classical, Free Classical, Filigree, Anglo-Dutch, Romanesque, Gothic, Carpenter Gothic, Warehouse, Queen Anne, Free Style, Arts and Crafts, Bungalow
Federation Academic Classical
Federation Free Classical
Notable examples include: Sydney Hospital (Sydney), Taronga Zoo Pavilion (Sydney), the main terminus building of the Central railway station in Sydney,[49] Flinders Street station (Melbourne), Sacred Heart Church (St Kilda, Victoria), Read's Emporium (Prahran, Victoria), Old Royal Hotel (Williamstown, Victoria), the former Queensland Lands Administration Building (Brisbane).
Flinders Street station, Melbourne, completed 1910
Former Read's Emporium,
Prahran, completed 1914
Old Royal Hotel,
Williamstown, with arts and crafts influences
Sacred Heart Church,
St Kilda, completed 1891
Former
Lands Administration Building, Brisbane, completed 1905
Sydney Hospital, completed 1894
Former Parcels Post Office,
Railway Square, Sydney. Completed 1913
Marcus Clarke Building (
TAFE),
Railway Square, Sydney. Completed 1910-1924
Taronga Zoo. Completed 1916
Dimmey's Building, Richmond, Victoria. Built
c. 1910.
Odeon Theatre, Hobart. Completed 1916, pictured in 1929
Federation Filigree
Brass Monkey Hotel,
Perth; built 1896.
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Imperial Hotel, Ravenswood; with prominent fretwork verandah; built 1901.
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P&O Hotel, Fremantle. Completed 1901
Buchanan's Hotel,
Townsville. Built 1902, demolished 1984. Three-tiered filigree in cast iron, wrought iron, timber and glass.
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George Hotel,
Ballarat. Built 1902.
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Thorps Building, Ravenswood; two-storey shop completed
c. 1903.
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Kurri Kurri Hotel,
Kurri Kurri; built
c. 1904.
Castle Hotel, York; verandah and timber fretwork added
c. 1905.
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Freemasons Hotel (Toodyay); two-storey verandah added
c. 1905.
Shopfront,
Stanmore; built
c. 1907.
Junee Hotel,
Junee; remodeled
c. 1911 with
art nouveau-style cast ironwork.
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Thorby Buildings,
Leichhardt; built 1912; a
Federation Filigree shop-terrace.
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Shamrock Hotel,
Rochester; built c.1912.
People's Palace, Brisbane, Queensland;
Temperance Hotel built in stages between 1910-13.
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Federation Romanesque
Victorian Artists Society, East Melbourne. Built 1892.
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Bairnsdale Court House,
Bairnsdale; completed in 1893.
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Former Societe Generale Building,
Sydney. Completed 1895.
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Queen Victoria Building, Sydney; completed in 1898.
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Perth Mint, Perth, completed in 1899
Fremantle Markets, Fremantle; completed in 1902
Shelbourne Hotel,
Sydney. Completed 1902
Hackett Hall,
Perth; completed 1908, now part of the
Western Australian Museum
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church,
Bairnsdale; completed in 1913
Former Melbourne Magistrates' Court. Completed 1914.
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Federation Gothic
Federation Carpenter Gothic
Federation Warehouse
The Big Store,
Prahran, completed 1902.
Former 'David Cohen & Co. warehouse,
Newcastle. Built 1901.
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Former Edwards Dunlop & Co Ltd stores, Kent Street,
Sydney. Built c.1897.
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Former Farmers & Graziers Building,
Ultimo. Built from 1895.
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Federation Free Style
Townsville Customs House. Completed 1902; architect, George David Payne.
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City Baths, Melbourne; completed 1904. Design by
J J Clark & E J Clark.
Kings Cross Hotel,
Kings Cross. Built
c. 1915.
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State Savings Bank building,
Richmond. Completed
c. 1905; architect; Smith & Ogg.
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Fire station,
Pyrmont. Completed 1906; architect,
Walter Liberty Vernon.
Fremantle Post Office. Completed 1907; architect,
Hilson Beasley. Alternating bands of red brick and pale stucco dominate the facade.
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Observer Hotel, The Rocks. Completed 1908; architects, Halligan & Wilton.
St Marys Catholic Church,
Erskineville. Built
c. 1912; architect, J. McCarthy. An uninhibited reinterpretation of the Gothic style.
Provincial Hotel,
Ballarat; completed in 1909; architect, Percy Richards. A fanciful freestyle composition with moorish and art nouveau elements.
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St Patrick's Hall,
Sydney. Completed 1914; architects,
Hennessy & Hennessy.
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Palisade Hotel, Millers Point. Completed 1916; architect, H. D. Walsh.
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The Examiner building,
Launceston.
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Federation Arts and Crafts
Fire station,
Leichhardt. Completed 1906; architect, E.L Drew.
Former Post & Telegraph Offices,
Windsor
Former State Savings Bank,
Ararat.
Presbyterian Church,
Wahroonga. Built
c. 1913.
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16 styles, each style name prefaced by "Inter-War":
- Georgian Revival, Academic Classical, Free Classical, Beaux-Arts, Stripped Classical, Commercial Palazzo, Mediterranean, Spanish Mission, Chicagoesque, Functionalist & Modern, Art-Deco, Skyscraper Gothic, Romanesque, Interwar Gothic, Old English, California Bungalow
Inter-war Georgian Revival
Inter-war Academic Classical
Inter-war Beaux Arts
Former Melbourne Mail Exchange,
Bourke Street, Melbourne; completed in 1917
Former Port Authority Building,
Market Street, Melbourne
National Theatre.
St Kilda; completed 1929
Herald and Weekly Times Building,
Flinders Street, Melbourne
Argus Building.
LaTrobe Street,
Melbourne; completed 1927. Features large giant order columns with Egyptian decorative motifs
Commonwealth Bank building,
Forrest Place, Perth; completed 1933
Commonwealth Bank building,
Martin Place, Sydney. Completed 1928
Perpetual Trustee building,
Sydney. Completed 1917
Beaux Arts Style office block,
Sydney
Banking House,
Sydney. Completed 1912
Beaux Arts style commercial building in
Broadway, Sydney
Inter-war Commercial Palazzo
Inter-War Spanish Mission
Inter-war Art Deco
Australian War Memorial; building completed 1941; Byzantine architecture style with strong styling elements of art deco throughout
Elmslea Chambers,
Goulburn; built 1933; it was one of the first buildings in Australia to use
Glazed architectural terra-cotta in its façade
Forgan Smith Buildings and Great Court,
University of Queensland; completed 1927
Anzac War Memorial, Sydney; completed 1934.
Art Deco office building.
Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. Obvious influences of North American skyscraper planning
Alkira House, Queen Street, Melbourne. One of the most striking
Glazed architectural terra-cotta and
glass brick clad
Art Deco buildings in Australia
Gledden Building,
Perth; completed in 1935. The Gledden Building was the only large commercial building in the Art Deco style ever built in
Western Australia
APA Building
Martin Place, Sydney
Henry Davis York Building,
Sydney.
Challis House, Martin Place, Sydney. Completed 1938
T&G Geelong, 1934
Inter-war Functionalist & Moderne
Inter-war Old English (20th Century Tudorbethan)
Inter-War Functionalist & Moderne
The functionalist and moderne style often used combinations of blonde and brown bricks in linear vertical or horizontal patterns.
Notable examples include: Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney); Captain's Flat Hotel (NSW); Russell Street Police Headquarters (Melbourne); Astor Theatre (St Kilda, Victoria); Ballarat Law Courts (Ballarat);
5 styles, each style name prefaced by "Post-War":
- Ecclesiastical, International, Modern
International Style
Adelaide High School, West Terrace, Adelaide. Completed 1951.
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Lennon's Hotel,
Broadbeach. Built 1957.
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Qantas House, Sydney. Designed by Rudder, Littlemore & Rudder; built from 1955-1957.
Orica House, East Melbourne; Completed 1958. Early curtain wall glass building and tallest in Australia when completed.
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Pinjarra Police Station,
Pinjarra, completed 1962.
14 styles, each style name prefaced by "Late Twentieth Century":
- Stripped Classical, Ecclesiastical, International, Organic, Brutalist, Structuralist, Late Modern, Post Modern, Immigrants' Nostalgic
Brutalist
Notable examples include: Sydney Masonic Centre/Civic Tower (Sydney); Suncorp Place (Sydney); Sydney Law School (Sydney); Cameron Offices (Canberra); High Court of Australia (Canberra); State Library of Queensland (Brisbane); Queensland Performing Arts Centre (Brisbane); Law Courts (Brisbane); Suncorp Plaza (Brisbane); National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne); Total carpark (Melbourne); WTC Wharf; Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre (Malvern, Victoria); St Kilda Public Library (St Kilda, Victoria); Plumbing Trades Employees Union of Australia Building (Melbourne); University of Melbourne Faculty of Engineering (Melbourne); Metropolitan Fire Brigade (East Melbourne, Victoria); R.A.W. Woodgate Centre (Kew, Victoria); Olivetti Building (Sydney); UTS Tower (University of Technology, Sydney); St Anthony's Church (Marsfield, Sydney). See Category:Brutalist architecture in Australia.
National Gallery of Victoria, St Kilda Road, Melbourne, completed 1962
10 Murray Street, Hobart, completed 1969
Public Transport Centre, Perth, completed 1976
High Court of Australia, Canberra, completed in 1980
Callam Offices,
Canberra; built 1977 - 1981; designed by John Andrews.
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Suncorp Place, Sydney, completed 1982
Henty House,
Launceston, completed 1983.
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Post Modern
A subset of postmodernism is mock-historicism tries to imitate historic styles using modern materials to the point where it is difficult to tell them apart from historic buildings. The most imitated styles are those that are easiest to clone (including the Georgian style).
Deconstructivist
Notable examples include Green Building RMIT; Deakin University main building; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art; Gottlieb House (Melbourne)
Several new and continued 20th-century styles, all prefaced with "21st-century" - Deconstructivist, Post modern, Structuralist, Sustainable, Modern
Sustainable
Notable examples in Australia include: 60L (Melbourne); CH2 (Melbourne); K2 Apartments (Windsor, Victoria); Dunc Gray Velodrome (Sydney); Forest EcoCentre (Tasmania); Rozak House (Noonamah, Northern Territory).
K2 Apartments.
Windsor, Victoria. Completed 2006. Highly visible solar panels, prominent natural ventilators and use of natural materials.
Council House 2. Little Collins Street, Melbourne. Completed 2006. World's first 6 star green rating building features louvered facade, natural and recycled materials, solar panels and thermal mass cooling.
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