Walking Tour: South Yarra, Sunday 17 Nov @ 2.00pm

ADMSANews

Join us for our final guided walk of 2024 exploring the leafy streets of South Yarra. This pleasant stroll will take in the many Moderne and Art Deco apartments and buildings between the Royal Botanic Gardens and Fawkner Park. Click here for more information and bookings.

Walking Tour of South Yarra

ADMSA

Join us for our final guided walk of 2024 exploring the leafy streets of South Yarra. This pleasant stroll will take in the many Moderne and Art Deco apartments and buildings between the Royal Botanic Gardens and Fawkner Park. The tour will begin at the Royce Hotel in St Kilda Road, before heading off down Bromby Street and exploring the surrounding streets. Discover buildings rich in …

South Yarra Walk

ADMSA

Join us for a walk around the tree-lined streets of South Yarra, one of Melbourne’s most attractive inner suburbs, and explore the variety of interwar building types and styles – hotels, apartment blocks, houses, schools and streetscapes. Date: Sunday, 4 February  Starting Time: 9.45am for a 10 o’clock start; duration – 2 hours approx Starting Point: Royce Hotel, 379 St Kilda …

Capitol Bakeries Building, cnr Chapel St & Toorak Rd, South Yarra (Summer 2016)

ADMSALost Buildings, Preservation, Victoria

After a decade-long battle to preserve the Capitol building, demolition has commenced on this prominent South Yarra corner. The building started life as one of Melbourne’s cable-car engine-sheds before being converted to a bakery in 1936 after the trams were electrified. The makeover was designed by prolific local architect Harry Norris. The massive development of apartment blocks in South Yarra …

Capitol Bakeries Building, cnr Chapel St & Toorak Rd, South Yarra (Autumn 2000)

Digital InnovationsLost Buildings, Preservation, Victoria

A proposal is currently before the Stonnington Council for the construction of a 27-storey hotel complex on the corner of Chapel St and Toorak Rd. This proposal would require the demolition of the Capitol Bakeries building. Harry Norris designed two major bakeries in Melbourne; the other was the Northern Bakery building in Brunswick. The Capitol building has undergone many changes …