Century Building (4500757300)

The Century Building is Marcus Barlow’s vertical Streamlined Moderne updating of his Modern Gothic Manchester Building on the next corner completed 6 years earlier. With its abstracted corner tower, uninterrupted vertical fins and boldly horizontal and stepping streamlined canopy (the soffit is particularly notable), the limit-height Century Building is smartly Moderne. Common to both buildings, however, was the external cladding material: faience-glazed terracotta tiles, which Barlow used frequently as they provided a permanent and impervious finish. Wunderlich Limited, producers of faience, used the Century Building in their advertisements, saying of it: ‘it gives a permanent freshness and

From Wikimedia Commons (Streamline Moderne architecture › Streamline Moderne architecture by country › Streamline Moderne architecture in Australia › Century Building (Melbourne)). By Rexness. CC BY-SA 2.0.