Following the recommendation of the Snelleman House designed by architect Peter McIntyre for inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register, the house also known as the “Coil House”, has been formally added to the Register.
Snelleman (“Coil”) House, East Ivanhoe (Autumn 2011)
One of the reasons for the decision made last year by ADMS to change its name to include Modernism was to act as advocates for the preservation of significant post-WWII buildings. A major force in Melbourne’s architectural circles in the 1950s (and ever since!) was Peter McIntyre. In 1953 he designed a house for the Snelleman family in the riverside …