What Parliament house may have looked like. The 1979 competition for the design of Australia’s new Parliament House followed decades of political discussion on the character and site of what was to become, arguably, the most symbolically important building in Australia. As we know, Walter Burley and Marion Mahoney Griffin won an international design competition for the new federal capital in 1912. Within this plan for Canberra they designated the site of Capital Hill as the focus at the apex of the urban design characterised by triangular geometry. The Griffins intended that Capital Hill would host an open public structure and not the legislative functions of government that were to be located down on the river plains to the north in what is now called the parliamentary triangle. The axes of roads and landforms within the Griffins’ plan anointed Capital Hill with an urban power similar to that of the Palace of Versailles but in the case of Canberra it was the public who were to have symbolic ownership of the site. A project of this scale was rare and the competition was much anticipated by the architectural community before its announcement in April. At the close of the first stage of the competition 329 entries had been received with 131 from international architects. These are a few photos from the competition, of what Parliament house may have ended up looking like. Read more about this project and see more entrants at bit.ly/1vgbfVG #Canberra #CBR #ParliamentHouse #TheCanberraPage
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 02:35:36 +0000
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