9 Seattle Street

Built in 1975 to a design by prominent Melbourne-based Italian architect Edgard Pirrotta of Morris & Pirrotta, featured in architecture critic Norman Day’s 1976 publication Modern Houses, this solid built double brick house with 4 bedroom 4 living 2 bathroom 2 car garage sitting on approx 669m2 land. This historical Modernist and Brutalist aesthetic house offer you the unique lifestyle in this highly sought after Balwyn High School Zone ! Locate on the high side of this peaceful and quiet street provide you a convenient living, the Koonung Creek Reserve with endless parkland is locate at the end of the street , 450m walk to Boroondara Shopping Village, 950m walk to Boroondara Park Primary School and 4 mins drive to Balwyn High School ! Also easy 20 mins walk to the Greythorn Central Shopping Strip, 18mins walk to the tram to Kew Junction and Elite's private schools and CBD, or 3 mins drive to M3 Freeway !This designer house is of local aesthetic significance as a fine and notably intact example of the Brutalist aesthetic as applied to residential architecture during the 1970s, featuring asymmetrical built form with a steeply raked parapet wall and curved corner to the principal façade, walls of bagged concrete blocks, irregular roofline that incorporates sections that are variously flat, low-pitched or more steeply raked, all clad with metal tray deck roofing, a long glazed vault, made of curved timber beams with perspex infill, which extends all the way from the front door to the staircase in the rear wing, flat-roofed double carport, exposed chimney flues, rainwater heads and downpipes, flight of shallow concrete-paved steps that lead from the street to the front door, and bagged and painted concrete- block retaining wall with curved corner walls at the driveway entry. As a recipient of the September 1976 Age-RAIA House of the Week award and being highly intact, the house is a bold and eye-catching element in the streetscape !The unique floorplan including four separate living area and modern stone kitchen all featuring North facing window, hallway with full skylight window leading to the ground floor master bedroom and upstairs retreat area and 3 other bedrooms, modern bathroom and abundant outdoor area plus gas ducted heating and split system air conditioners complete this great value package for your family desire in this prestigous Balwyn North location and Balwyn High School Zone.