Krantz design dominates the exclusive area on the escarpment between King’s Park and the Mitchell Freeway, where six different flat developments along Mount Street in West Perth were constructed between 1935 and 1981. These ranged from syndicate-sponsored high density housing such as Melford Court, to the luxury apartments of Mt Eliza Apartments and Sunny Mead. Hillside Gardens, built nearby at 59 Malcolm Street in 1963, was also a Krantz and Sheldon design.
1935 - Conversion of residence to flats, 57 Mount Street
1939 - Mount Street Apartments, 40 Mount Street
1960 - Melford Court, 48 Mount Street
1961 - Sunny Mead, 73 Mount Street, corner of Bellevue Terrace (also 18 Bellevue Terrace)
1964 - Mt Eliza Apartments, 71 Mount Street
1981 - Mountway Flats, 36 Mount Street
The Mt Eliza apartment block is one of Perth’s most iconic and instantly recognisable buildings. Designed by David Krantz while still a student and selected for the prime 2,300m2 site at the top of Mount Street, it is affectionately called ‘the thermos flask’ for its unique appearance. The first circular apartment building to be built in Australia, and the tallest building in West Perth, it contains 25 apartments - the top five floors each comprising one apartment, with two apartments per floor below. It was Perth's second tallest building on completion, is a recognised architectural landmark, and considered nationally significant for its modernist design.
Mount Street was a favoured residential address for the Krantz-Boas families. Harold Krantz lived at the apex of Mount Street in the penthouse of the luxurious Sunny Mead apartment block. Harold Boas built a house for himself at 21 Mount Street in 1925 and later resided for thirty years at 1A Cliff Street, adjacent to the top of Mount Street at Jacob’s Ladder, a prime elevated position with unsurpassed views of King’s Park and the Swan River.
