Allan Powell

Primarily interested in the states of mind into which his designs could set people, Allan Powell pursued a singular path in architecture. He was delighted when told that architect visitors from Europe, who sat in St Kilda’s Di Stasio restaurant (1988) soon after it opened, took an hour to realize that the beguiling interior had been designed. (Exactly what Powell had hoped for, when he had designed it!) Explaining this, he talked of his childhood in St Kilda – he was “lost in amazement at the way in which the late afternoon sun would pick up the wide tarmac surface of Fitzroy Street and match this with the surface of the bay, shimmering gold beyond.

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