Percy Edgar Everett

Percy Edgar Everett (26 June 1888 - 6 May 1967) was an Australian architect. He was appointed chief architect of the Victorian Public Works Department in 1934 and is best known for the striking Modernist / Art Deco technical colleges, schools, hospitals, court houses, and office buildings the department produced over the next 20 years.

His most well known design is the Police Headquarters at Russell Street (1940–1943), giving Melbourne "its first Gotham City silhouette". Percy Edgar Everett's signature style reflected and often combined a range of sources including American Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, and European early Modernism, such as Brick Expressionism, the German Bauhaus and even Russian Constructivism, drawn from magazines and his two trips abroad. He was also adept at designing in other modes, such as Tudor, Georgian and Rustic styles, when appropriate.