The Moderne house is a house, located at 2 Riverview Road, in , an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Completed in 1935, the house was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 18 April 1996 in recognition of its architectural significance.
Description The house at 2 Riverview Road, Essendon was designed in the European Moderne style in 1935 for Evan Price by the avant-garde architects Geoffrey Mewton and Roy Grounds, of Mewton and Grounds. The builder was C. Hutley of Brighton.
The house is predominantly two-storey five-bedroom house with face brickwork. The roofs are flat and there is a combination of parapets and projecting eaves. The house is a successful local adaptation of European Moderne and remains today as a rare, relatively intact example of a design type.
Mewton and Grounds were influential in the development of modernist architecture in Victoria and the style, technology and construction technique of the house at 2 Riverview Road demonstrates their philosophies and intent through its open plan form and functional design.
See also
Architecture of Melbourne List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the City of Moonee Valley
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