The BuildingsFLINDERS LANE
Majorca Building
The building
The Majorca Building is the kind of building that makes you look up and wonder. Rising eight storeys above Flinders Lane in a cascade of deep blue faience, its facade is unlike anything else in Melbourne — a Moorish fantasy of fish, shells, rope moulding, and gold detailing dreamed up by Harry Norris and completed in 1930. It was built for the Nicholas brothers, the same Aspro magnates behind the nearby Nicholas Building, and named for the Spanish island of Majorca.
In brief
- 1927Majorca Building Company formed by Alfred and George Nicholas (of Aspro fame)
- 1928Construction begins to Harry Norris's design
- 1929Press hails the nearly-complete building as a landmark change in Melbourne's architecture
- 1930Building completed and opens for tenants
- 1993Converted and subdivided into residential apartments
The doorstep
Three places within a short walk.
What each one is, and how far it is from the front door. Select a place to see it on the map.
1
Nature600 m · 8 min walk
Birrarung Marr
The city's first major new parkland in a century, terraced down to the Yarra with a Wurundjeri name meaning river of mists.
2
Dining524 m · 7 min walk
MoVida
Frank Camorra's tapas bar opened in 2003 down graffiti-covered Hosier Lane and taught the city to eat Spanish.
3
Character462 m · 6 min walk
The Melbourne Athenaeum
Founded in 1839, it housed the city's first library and gallery and still runs a subscription library above Collins St.
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