find in a Manhattan building, only minutes from Collins Street". It was the first high rise apartment block in St Kilda, and one of the first in Melbourne. The tower supports 100 one bedroom and two bedroom apartments all with balconies, laundry and garbage disposal chutes, lounge rooms and dinettes. Throughout the 1960s numerous planning permits were permitted to allow enclosed balconies. Edgewater Towers is an example of International Style modernism, and is constructed largely out of reinforced concrete. The City of Port Phillip's heritage listing notes that it was "the first of St Kilda's residential highrise developments". The listing goes further to state "It still plays an important symbolic role in the perception of St Kilda's character and imagery.....Standing somewhat like a towering section of a stranded ocean liner, it announces St Kilda's uniquely nautical cosmopolitan zone at its southern approaches." The Motel Palm Lake The Motel Palm Lake is located at 50-52 Queens Road, facing Albert Park. Opened on 13 December 1962 by the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Maurice Nathan, it was one of Melbourne's most prestigious motels at the time. It originally had 84 suits with open balconies facing the park on one side, and a popular swimming pool terrace to the north. Facilities included on site parking, conference facilities, a nightly dinner dance and a licensed restaurant ('The Outrigger'). It remained in operation under a new name, Noah's Palm Lake Motel. In recent years, two more storeys and a multi-level car park surrounding the swimming pool terrace were added in phases, and the open balconies on both sides enclosed, completely changing the appearance. Only the two Canary Island Palm trees that represented the Motel’s name that were planted at the entry in 1961 on the opening day by the Lord Mayor still remain. The Benshemesh Flats Between 1948 and 1954, Benshemesh designed a distinct group of significant apartment buildings in St Kilda, St Kilda East and Caulfield North which are fine examples of functionalist style architecture and show impressive boldness in their massing. The group comprises: Francelaw Flats at 62 Hotham St in St Kilda East (designed 1948) 124 Balaclava Road, Caulfield North (built 1950-51) 38 Westbury Street, St Kilda east (designed 1951) Burnett Lodge at 11 Burnett St, St Kilda (designed 1951) Barkly Lodge at 289 Barkly St, St Kilda (designed 1953) They are all constructed either primarily or entirely of blonde brick, have flat,