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Robin Boyd, Roy Grounds and Harry Seidler have contributed significantly to modern Australian architecture by applying modernist-style principles to Australian homes. Another group of architects, such as Glenn Murcutt, Tina Engelen and Ian Moore, and Trop...
As elsewhere in Australia, European settlement disrupted Aboriginal patterns of land use and movement across the country, and many Aborigines died from European-brought diseases like influenza, smallpox and tuberculosis. The Griffins, Walter Burley and Ma...
Australian designers, by their very nature, look for simple and elegant solutions for challenges in often ordinary situations, balancing creativity with cost-effectiveness and innovative construction. Inspiration comes not only from historical and interna...
'An Ideal City? The 1912 Competition to Design Canberra' is an online exhibition about the competition to design the capital of Australia, the entrants, Walter Burley Griffin's winning design, and the changes that have been made to the plan as Canberra ha
Canberra - Australia's Capital National Capital Authority (more info)
Find information on the National Capital Authority, a history of Canberra including Walter Burley Griffin's original plan. Also includes details on visiting the capital, present day attractions and future plans.
Using voice-over, interviews, sketches and still shots of buildings, this clip gives a biographical overview of Griffin and describes the stylistic influences on his development as an architect. This clip shows photographs of Walter Burley Griffin, his ho...
Furniture > Desks>>+ A6380 Travelling desk: H = 17.5cm, L = 3...> + A9352 Desk and chair, Tasmanian myrtle, ... > + A9372 Office furniture, desk, pedestal, ... Designed by Marion Mahony and/or Walter Burley Griffin as part of a range of furniture for stud...
The Capitol Theatre was designed by the Griffins in 1921-24 as part of the Capitol House shop and office complex, 109 Collins Street, Melbourne. > > The maker of the light is unknown; the manufacturer may yet be revealed by examining the Capitol Theatre C...
On 23 May 1912, American Walter Burley Griffin was announced to the world as the winner of the international design competition for the new Australian capital to be built on a sheep paddock they called Canberra. The Griffins' story resonates through the ...
On 23 May 1912, American Walter Burley Griffin was announced to the world as the winner of the international design competition for the new Australian capital to be built on a sheep paddock they called Canberra. How did he come to Canberra, what happened...
The Capitol Theatre was designed by the Griffins in 1921-24 as part of the Capitol House shop and office complex, 109 Collins Street, Melbourne. > > The maker of the light is unknown; the manufacturer may yet be revealed by examining the Capitol Theatre C...
Wright's first house and studio is now a museum, carefully restored and lovingly fussed over by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Yes, I'm researching and writing a biography of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, so I'm really looking forw...
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On 23 May 1912, American Walter Burley Griffin was announced to the world as the winner of the international design competition for the new Australian capital to be built on a sheep paddock they called Canberra. The Griffins' story resonates through the ...
Penguins You Must Read Before You Die Penguin Group (Australia)> 250 Camberwell Road > Camberwell, VIC 3124, Australia > PO Box 701, Hawthorn > ©1998-2009 Penguin Group (Australia) Inc. ...
Painter, photographer and one-time architect, Alasdair McGregor is the author of The Kimberley: Horizons of Stone, Australia's Wild Islands (both with Quentin Chester) and Mawson's Huts: An Antarctic Expedition Journal. Alasdair McGregor lives in Sydney....
Project architect City of Melbourne, Swaney Draper, Taylor Cullity Lethleanóproject team City of Melbourne:> Rob Adams, Joanne Bourke, Ian Dryden, Ed Jardine, Ronald Jones, John Knaggs, Helena Piha, Shane Power. > Taylor Cullity Lethlean: Perry Lethlean, ...
Top: View south along Stage 2 of the boardwalk towards Stage 1 winding along the cliffs at Kangaroo Point. The Cliffs Boardwalk Stage 2 returns another important section of Brisbane's riverbank to the people; providing a meandering, exciting and safe rou...
RADAR HEADLINESUNBUILTBIENNALEEVENTARTINSTALLATIONBOOKSHOUSINGFEATURES 2007 RAIA NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS In search of intelligent, ambitious architecture, which contributes to the discipline and the community. The new Southern Cross Station in centra...
ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION PRIZE Rory Spence. Architect Ashton Raggatt McDougallódesign architect Ian McDougall; project architects Ken Boole, Tim Wright; project team Howard Raggatt, Steve Ashton, Andrew Lilleyman, Neil Masterton, Daniella Casamento, Jesse...
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