All up in my grille

Grilles, vents, ventilators, and other achitectural detailing

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‘Need something to end the massive vent’. ‘Curlicues’. ‘Curlicues?’ ‘Curlicues’.

Bondi Junction

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Via reader Koosli, a long-delayed pair of pictures from Victorian Parliament House, showing how elaborate the Melburnians got during the grand boom time. Marvellous.

‘Quincunx’. The motif that looks like the number five on dice. You love to see and say it.

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Former Carlton Hotel, Geelong. Art Deco delights.

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‘How much filigree do you want?’ ‘Yes’

Geelong

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Glass footpath grate with mosaic. Geelong

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Turquoisish painted tiles. Something between chinioiserie and 1940s modern. Parramatta Road shopfront, Annandale.

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A set of four terracotta grilles. North Sydney Post Office

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Found a spare on site

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Hexagonal vent, 19th century greenhouse, Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney

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Don’t have any dedicated ventilation bricks? Adapt, improvise, overcome. Shellharbour. #improvised #bricks #brickwork

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Horizontal decorative vent. Melbourne.

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Terracotta grille in a brick wall on top of a rough sandstone footing wall, with a former hydrant sign. The hydrant is still there, it’s just that the signs aren’t painted anymore. #grille #masonry #hydrant

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Weep holes are unmortared gaps in brickwork to allow moisture to escape. But they let in small animals and debris! The solution is a very little vent grille #weephole #grille

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Via https://bsky.app/profile/damonyoung.com.au, ‘From the main street of Bangalow, this gift of a single grille for @liamhogan.id.au.’ And it’s a beauty.

Technically a double brick grille but a well known pattern, this one seems to have been installed into an existing cavity (judging by the fresh mortar), and is it a contemporary manufactured element?

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1904. Central Railway Station, Sydney. #vent #grille

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Via @[email protected] comes this 7x2 slimline vent in what seems to be a backyard. Probably the inner west of some Australian city. Could be in the 1990s. The smell of cigarettes and beer. In a Tim Rogers song.

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The Welsh Arch, one of my favourite minor details