now for something completely different.
post pix of small/short/little bldgs in your CBD.
i love this 3 storey terrace in Clarence street, sydney.
it looks like all those years ago, the elderly landlord stood her ground with developers and said NO! im not going! its my home! lol you will just have to build around me!

only 10ft wide.now "boutique" offices.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/413219556_90a7d4d515_b.jpg

How cool. I hope it is preserved for years to come.

theres 2x 150 year old sandstone toilet blocks on Hickson Road.
great little buildings
one seen here at bottom of pic.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/58/192151879_287ffdfad3.jpg?v=0

Australias oldest standing public toilets?

BTW your new avatar reminds me of a bikie gang logo lol.

Angel Hotel, Pitt St, Sydney

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/Fabian/PC140719.jpg?t=1166928798

LOVING those pics ! :)

This cute little hut is some sort of railway infrastructure at the old North Yards, but it'll soon be demolished to make way for Central (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=288077&page=4) - a mater-planned redevelopment of the area.

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/1567/northyardshutev4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Small:
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/iheritageweb/images/106014_rear%20(1)_200312.jpg

Smaller:
http://web.aanet.com.au/nmharrison/09-10-2006/urban%20workshop%203%20forum.jpg

Smallest:
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/iheritageweb/images/103181_sp_200110.jpg

Anyone got a pic of the gorgeous little building wedged into the south west corner of King and Castlereagh in Syd? I think it's a trendy fashion shop.

great bldgs grollo.
christarrant-thats the old surry hotel that Culwulla chambers wraps around.not really small,


http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-tmp/rt08968-3240.jpg

Melbourne newspaper stand. Pretty small if you consider it a building. From austinbriab on Flickr.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/370657014_6327e8fbf2_o.jpg

Also scattered around Melbourne are some very small and historic buildings associated with the tram network such as the one outside Verve on Swantson Street.

On Bourke st there is a diva jewellery store that is about one metre wide. It's tiny! I'm not sure if it's actually a building though or just a small store inside a building. Anyone know?

Adelaide is a good candidate for this thread.

A few that caught my eye walkin about town recently.

Pirie St, part of council buildings

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/7797/piriest2oc7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Victoria Square

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1059/victoriasque2tk2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8166/victoriasque4oi4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Rundle Mall, once a great pie shop

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/6733/rundlest5az9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6295/rundlemall4jj2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5660/rundle6ij2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Twin St

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/3547/twinstreetuc4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

There are tons more...

:) Nice thread.

this has to be Australias smallest "new" building. The tiny 2storey substation on cnr Druitt/sussex sts completed last year.

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/1353/0001114wr6.jpg

another great little old bldg (1844) in sydney is the Genesian Theatre on kent st.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6338/0001113qua7.jpg

another nice little bldg is one of Australia's oldest homes. right in centre of CBD. the 1825 Judges House in Kent st
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/418592120_d7eb5f9aac.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/74/221296782_7fa046dd9e.jpg?v=0

old working class house/cottage... (the red wooden building)

mitre tavern?

Mitre Tavern in Bank Place, Melbourne.
Although the shot below is old, it still looks very much like this today. :)

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/MitreTavern.jpg

Some really great photos. Thanks.

Sorry I dont have a pic but there is a very old ( 1860's ?) two story shop on the corner of King St. and Latrobe Sts. Melbourne. I have old books of early Melbourne and it's there looking just the same as now.

nice little fire station as part of Sydney Customs op belmore park
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/9215/0001133qu7.jpg

great little 1840's stone toilet come substation now refurbed recently turned into a shop? walsh bay
fantastic
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/4820/0001433aiw7.jpg

what a great thread, cheers cul, how on earth did you come up with such a topic :cheers:??

Tram shelter on Macarthur Street, Melbourne. :)

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/TramShelter1.jpg

I was sitting in traffic in Williams St. Melbourne yesterday and noticed a 7-11...on the west side between little Bourke and Lonsdale ..I think??? it's tiny...just wide enough for door and window and two levels..old stone building painted white...looks like it dates back to maybe late 1800's? Didn't have camera with me !

i think this just might be Melbourne's smallest extant house,
17 Casselden Place, once one of a row of six two or three-room cottages up in that area around the top end of Little Lonsdale Street that was once notorious as Melbourne's red light district.

All credit here first to gappa who has posted this on The Barton project thread and kindly directed me to his original source, secondly, Rowan on the Walking Melbourne site, which brings up these images and details. I'm just a postman here. (later, and apologies, I also belatedly see the house has already been posted by Grollo - well, this gives some more details

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/MrMukherjee/647795954_ef9145d90a_b1.jpg


gappa has heard that the house, or the row, may have had some connection with Squizzy Taylor, which looks quite likely.

Rowan's Walking Melbourne post, back in January, gave these details

17 Casselden place is a tiny remnant of the "Little Lon" area which has been nearly totally consumed by modern development. The house was derelict for many years but is now used by a business. I was lucky enough to be able to have a quick look inside in 2006 and the place is tiny - there's the "main" room which the front door opens into, then a smaller room to the south, a back door which opens into a tiny courtyard with a door for the third room (no direct internal access as far as I can remember), and an outdoor toilet. The whole block of land only measures about 7.5 x 7.1m, or around 53 square metres.

The plaque on the front wall today says:


17 CASSELDEN PLACE

The house is the last of a terrace of six brick two-
roomed cottages built in 1877 by John Casselden, a
shoemaker and small-time developer. The cottage is
the last remaining in the area known as "Little Lon",
long associated with slums, light industry and the
city's vice trade and accurately describes the other
side of "Marvellous Melbourne".

City of Melbourne / State Bank Victoria

The full row, said to have been taken in the 1950s

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/MrMukherjee/b219141.jpg


Here's an MMBW map from 1894 showing Castletown Place, and the original row of cottages:


http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/MrMukherjee/castletown1.gif

fish-eye lens into the front room (renovated as an office since this was taken)

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/MrMukherjee/digothr21.gif

and one of the bedrooms (as above, Rowan found a second bedroom off the tiny courtyard detached, but could recall no internal doorway from it into the house).

looking towards it from Little Lon

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/MrMukherjee/casselden148971.jpg

and from what is now the end of Casselden Place itself. forshortened by a high-rise development.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/MrMukherjee/casselden80551.jpg

Rowan dated this view he found as 1988:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/MrMukherjee/rt16024-95671.jpg

and this one 1983

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/MrMukherjee/jc0193601.jpg


similar picture to first, but more sense of its developmentally hemmed-in surroundings now:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/MrMukherjee/casselden80621.jpg


archeological dig around the site of the of the other cottages:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/MrMukherjee/231.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/MrMukherjee/cassel1.jpg


you can read the interesting Walking Melbourne discussion about it here, from which I've lifted these pictures and brief details. Thanks gappa, thanks Rowan, love the discovery of these old places.

http://www.walkingmelbourne.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3282

This little house in Collingwood deserves a mention ... I hope it's still there ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Suburban/collhse-4153_c.jpg

Another shot of the Mitre Tavern ... can't park your cars out the front now!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Daily/mitre_1537.jpg

Sorry I dont have a pic but there is a very old ( 1860's ?) two story shop on the corner of King St. and Latrobe Sts. Melbourne. I have old books of early Melbourne and it's there looking just the same as now.

I do have a picture, but it's lousy.

this may not ne the smallest but i reckon ugliest. no windows? look at that facade

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2318/1806366115_730ee4ee89_b.jpg

I was looking at that building just the other day, I think the whole Hunter Connection and nearby buildings are simply ghastly! ..... knock em down!!

Couple of small buildings amongst tallies in Brisbane and Melbourne

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6912/p8220036fv7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1103/p4030088uw6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I remember seeing this building on the right near SX station in Melbourne and thinking it looked odd and out of place

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/8085/p4030053rf9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

^^ It's the Savoy site, in other words, ready for development.
It used to have Carlyon's Hotel, pictured below.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Carlyon's1.jpg

Collector (or anyone else) do you know what the large red brick building with the dirty cream columns on the opposite side of Bourke Street to the Savoy is or was used for?

^^It's the old Mail Exchange building, built early 20th century in the 'Beaux Arts' style. Such a solid, impregnable-looking building, love it!

^^
http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/MailExchange.jpg

Former Mail Exchange
164-200 Spencer Street, Cnr Bourke Street

This is a stylish example of the massive grandeur of the first phase of Classical revival as practiced in America, known as the Beaux-Arts. Completed in 1917, it is one of the earliest such examples in Melbourne, and was designed by the first Commonwealth Government Architect, John Smith Murdoch. The reception and distribution of mail was made more efficient by its location near Spencer Street Station, to which it is connected via a tunnel.
It was also the GPO for a while.

Thanks Castro and Collector. I suppose it's just offices now? Such a fantastic building, so imposing. Ahhh, the golden age of Melbourne architecture. :cheers:

I think it was sold recently and the leases expire in late 2008-early 2009. If I remember correctly only the south and west facades and the interior to a depth of 9m are heritage listed (a bit like the old Herald Weekly Times building), so a tower could rise there in the future.

I think it was sold recently and the leases expire in late 2008-early 2009. If I remember correctly only the south and west facades and the interior to a depth of 9m are heritage listed (a bit like the old Herald Weekly Times building), so a tower could rise there in the future.

It was my understanding that the whole building was heritage listed, so as to preserve the old mail movement system. Apparently there are tubes and shafts criss-crossing (weren't Kriss Kross a great band) throughout the entire structure.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2294641067_4d2cc13324_b.jpg

It was my understanding that the whole building was heritage listed, so as to preserve the old mail movement system. Apparently there are tubes and shafts criss-crossing (weren't Kriss Kross a great band) throughout the entire structure.

For a brief period of time Melbourne had Australia's only underground pneumatic mail system of pipes running from the exchange to GPO, Spring and Collins Streets offices. I once saw some pics of the pipes on a CaveClan website.

this is near the central markets in Adelaide. While the 2 storey building on the right may not overall be small, the L shaped wing that comes out would have to be the smallest space Ive ever seen. You wonder why they even bothered. Its so skinny and would be a good 3 metres long but only 1 mtr wide. The street does a s-bend so the building is following that, but really, Adelaide's is not struggling for space

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2228/2419864745_89bc541d17_o.jpg