Percy Edgar Everett

Who was Percy Edgar Everett?

Percy Edgar Everett, was appointed chief architect of the Victorian Public Works Department in 1934 and is best known for the dozens of often strikingly Modernist State Government institutions such as schools, hospitals, police stations and technical colleges the department produced over the next 20 years.

His most well known design is the Police Headquarters at Russell Street, giving Melbourne “its first Gotham City silhouette”. Percy Edgar Everett’s mature style was influenced by a range of Modernist sources including American Art Deco, especially Streamline Moderne, and European early Modernism, such as Expressionism, Bauhaus and even Russian Constructivism, drawn from magazines and his two trips abroad.