Cyclones are an inescapable feature of living in a tropical climate like Queensland. Since 1858, over 208 of these destructive rain and wind storms have lashed the east coast. The environmental, economic and psychological costs to communities, families and individuals… Read More ›
9 McLachlan Street, Fortitude Valley T.C. Beirne features prominently in local history, as a business leader who brought the modern department store to Queensland, and as a politician in the senate when the state still had an upper house. One of… Read More ›
Queen’s Park, 10A Milford Street, Ipswich The decorative elegance of Art Deco does not immediately call to mind something so utilitarian as rubbish incineration. But enter one of the world’s most pre-eminent modern architects, Walter Burley Griffin, and majestic form becomes imaginatively fused… Read More ›
Coonan Street, Indooroopilly, Brisbane Walter Taylor Bridge, an elegant Art Deco crossing in Brisbane’s suburban west, has a cousin few might suspect – that grand and iconic bridge that graces Sydney Harbour. The relationship is firstly a material one, with Walter Taylor… Read More ›
995 Brunswick Street, New Farm, Brisbane Regular visitors to popular New Farm Park will be familiar with Coronet Flats, one of Brisbane’s most renowned Art Deco landmarks. Many stories could no doubt be told of lives lived there, but the building itself… Read More ›
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