Lookout
400 Aberdeen Street, GEELONG WEST VIC 3218 - Property No 200109
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Statement of Significance
A Listed - State Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Lookout - Aberdeen Street (1938)
CONDITION: Excellent
INTEGRITY: Intact
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Existing Listings: None
Reccomendations: HBR RNE Lps Place
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Lookout - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
A reinforced concrete, cantilevered panel, freeform lookout with a roughcast finish to the vertical faces and a cantilevered wrought iron balustrade. In his first book Victorian Modern, 1947,the young Robin Boyd eulogises "High above the Barwon River Planes", where the road twists at the deviation, a double mushroom by Buchan, Laird amp Buchan in 1938 sprouts for a lookout and a Geelong showplace.
The first floor has inset coloured concrete, defined by brass edge strips as a compass motif. Mussolin-ilike, the Roman cypresses form an appropriate backdrop.
COMPARISIONS
Sonnestraal Sanatorium, Hilversum, Bijvoet & Duiker, 1927.
Apartment Block, Avenue de Versailles, Paris, Burtold Lubetkin with Jean Ginzberg, 1928-1931.
Penguin Pool, London Zoo, Regent's Park, London, Berthold, Lubetkin & Tecton, 1934-35.
Cairo flats, Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, Best Overend, 1935.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - City of Geelong West Urban Conservation Study
Author: Huddle, Aitken and Honman
Year: 1986
Grading: A
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THE HEIGHTSVictorian Heritage Register H0429
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FORMER PROTESTANT ORPHAN ASYLUM AND COMMON SCHOOLVictorian Heritage Register H1095
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AUSTRALIAN PORTLAND CEMENT WORKS SWITCH YARDVictorian Heritage Inventory
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