St Kilda apartment block to honour living legend Mirka Mora

St Kilda apartment block to honour living legend Mirka Mora
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020

Mirka, a six-floor apartment block at St Kilda due for completion next year, will take its name from the octogenarian artist, Mirka Mora.

Some 25 of the 56 apartments have sold with prices ranging from $375,000 for one bedrooms to $695,000 for two bedroom two bathroom apartments.

The Inkerman street block has been designed by architect Ivan Turcinov, of Carabott Holt Turcinov. It will replace the 1970s three storey Barkly House office block.

There will be a mix of timber, glass, metal, concrete and bluestone. 

Mirka currently has major exhibitions of her works at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne and Manning Clark House in Canberra.

There's already been a street named in her honour and a restaurant.

Mirka Mora was born in Paris in 1928 making Melbourne her home in 1951. Mirka Cafe in Exhibition Street opened in 1954, with one of the city's first Gaggia espresso machines and defying then council by-laws by putting tables and chairs on the sidewalk and pushed for the right to serve wine.

In 1964, French emigres Georges and Mirka Mora opened Tolarno in St Kilda, which became a haunt of writers, painters, politicians, sports stars and the fiercely loyal St Kilda community.

"Giving entry to the property market, becoming part of a portfolio for a seasoned investor or providing a unique home to a couple or family, these St Kilda, Melbourne apartments won't last for long," Look Property Group selling agents Paul Raimondo and Michael Robinson suggest.

Mirka Mora appears in the Happy craze youtube videowhere locals dance through their village, parks and beaches, Fitzroy and Acland Streets in a clip to the Pharrell Williams tune directed by Aaron Wilson and produced by Serge Thomann.

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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