All tagged 1937

Mount Street Flats

This example of apartment living bears a marker of change to domestic living that was at the time, just outside the CBD. Containing a combination of bachelor flats and two bedroom flats, this building comes from a direct influence from the European Modernist tradition by Robert Sheldon, soon to be partner of Harold Krantz. Sheldon, an immigrant himself brought with him a European experience of Modern urbanism, with a sophistication approach to construction that had a notable impact of shaping Perth city and its surrounding suburbs to come.

Walkups II

Further along Stirling highway, at numbers 72 and 74 are more domestically scaled maisonettes. The seemingly single masisonette has been carefully planned into four separate dwellings to each floor. Without conflicting with the planning restrictions, plot ratios or height restrictions, Krantz had allowed for a higher density of living within the predominate detracted cottage dwelling in the area.