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In architecture, a deck is a flat surface capable of supporting weight, similar to a floor, but typically constructed outdoors, often elevated from the ground, and usually connected to a building. The term is a generalization from the deck of a ship.
In the period before European settlement of Australia, there were rudimentary forms of Indigenous architecture across Australia. However, many early colonists and explorers including Sir Thomas Mitchell and Charles Sturt recorded many Indigenous building styles including stone houses and houses grouped in villages. [ 1 ]
The veranda has featured quite prominently in Australian vernacular architecture and first became widespread in colonial buildings during the 1850s. The Victorian Filigree architecture style is used by residential (particularly terraced houses in Australia and New Zealand) and commercial buildings (particularly hotels ) across Australia and ...
A wall separates this area from the kitchen and a larger portion of the living/dining room. The living room and kitchen are glazed, opening onto the front deck and the internal deck and light well. The original construction is described in an article in Architecture in Australia, October–December 1957.
Art Deco architecture in Western Australia (18 P) Pages in category "Art Deco architecture in Australia" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Minerva Theatre in Kings Cross (1939) Grace Building (1930) This is a list of buildings in Sydney completed in the Inter-War Art Deco, Streamline Moderne and Functionalist styles that are historically significant. Apartment and residential buildings The Edgewater flats, 1937. Staircase, Belgenny, Taylor Square Entrance, Wychbury, Potts Point Adereham Hall, 71 Elizabeth Bay Road, Elizabeth Bay ...
Home in the Queenslander style. Australian residential architectural styles have evolved significantly over time, from the early days of structures made from relatively cheap and imported corrugated iron (which can still be seen in the roofing of historic homes) to more sophisticated styles borrowed from other countries, such as the California bungalow from the United States, the Georgian ...
Queenslander architecture is a modern term for a type of residential housing, widespread in Queensland, Australia. [1] It is also found in the northern parts of the adjacent state of New South Wales, and shares many traits with architecture in other states of Australia, but is distinct and unique. The form of the typical Queenslander-style ...