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The Brunswick Fire Station and Flats, located at 24 Blyth Street, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, was constructed in 1937–1938. Designed by Seabrook and Fildes, it was the first fire station commissioned by the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade to embrace a Modernist ideology.〔Christine Phillips, ‘Planting the seeds of Modernism: The work of Seabrook and Fildes 1933-1950’, Master of Architecture (by thesis), Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, 2007.〕 Seabrook’s father, who was Chairman of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade at the time, was no doubt influential in ensuring his son’s practice was awarded the contract, the first of twelve the firm designed which included the stations at Camberwell (1938), Brighton (1939) and Windsor (1941).〔Philip Goad, ‘Melbourne Architecture’, Revised and Expanded Edition, The Watermark Press, 2009, p. 150.〕 ==Description== The Brunswick Fire Station incorporates multiple vehicle spaces with three large doors facing Blyth Street, a watch room, toilets and offices. At the time of construction the station boasted state-of-the-art fire fighting equipment and alarm systems.〔 The planning reflects a functionalist sensibility,〔Richard Apperly, Robert Irving and Peter Reynolds, ‘A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture’, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1989, p. 184.〕 where the station’s various activities are organised into zones that are expressed externally in a series of interlocking cubic forms. The building’s keynote vertical element, for instance, conceals the main staircase and boldly protrudes beyond the façade, bearing the station’s flagpole. Although telephony had long surpassed spotters as the means of detecting blazes, this tower is evocative of pre-Federation days when stations such as Smith and Johnson’s Eastern Hill Fire Station in East Melbourne (1891–1893) were invariably positioned on high ground,〔Philip Goad, ‘Fire Stations’, in The Encyclopaedia of Australian Architecture, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 249-251.〕 and denotes the building’s important and enduring civic presence. The accommodation for the firemen and their families was originally located in two separate two-storey residential blocks of flats at the rear of the main building.〔 Sizeable garden courtyards were positioned between the flats and station, providing abundant northern light to the residences. Ground floor planter boxes further enhanced the connection between home and landscape.〔 With the introduction of shift work, the need for resident fire fighters disappeared.〔 Only the southernmost residential block remains, located on the corner of Burchett and Barningham Streets. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brunswick Fire Station and Flats」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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