This article is the fourth in a series of posts exploring the lost Art Deco cinemas of Queensland. See also: Brisbane’s Metro Theatre, Earl’s Court Rockhampton and Mackay Civic Theatre The St James Theatre in Brisbane wore many faces over… Read More ›
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Look inside: The Home Builders Annual 1938
By the late 1930s, the modern style we now know as Art Deco was enjoying popularity in Queensland. The 1938 edition of The Home Builders Annual was filled with advice for homeowners eager to seize on the spirit of modernity…. Read More ›
Mackay Civic Theatre: A lost Art Deco cinema
30 Gordon Street, Mackay This article is part of a series of posts exploring the lost Art Deco cinemas of Queensland. See also: Brisbane’s Metro Theatre and Earl’s Court, Rockhampton Mackay boasts one of the largest concentrations of Art Deco… Read More ›
Was the Depression good for Queensland Art Deco?
The question posed in the title of this article is deliberately provocative. It goes against the grain of common sense to imagine that the material hardship experienced in Depression-era Queensland could have led to anything other than stagnation and decline…. Read More ›
Brisbane’s Metro Theatre: A lost Art Deco cinema
This article is the first in a series of posts exploring the lost Art Deco cinemas of Queensland. See also: Earl’s Court Rockhampton and Mackay Civic Theatre From the end of the Depression to the early years of World War Two, cinema building… Read More ›
Video: Queensland’s Art Deco Town Halls
Welcome to Queensland Deco Project’s first video post! Take a tour of regional Queensland’s magnificent Art Deco town halls built during the 1930s, and enjoy a little jazz music on the road. If you know of other town hall examples in Queensland,… Read More ›
Out of the rubble: Art Deco in North Queensland
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 ›
An Ipswich incinerator: Walter Burley Griffin’s Queensland legacy
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 ›
Coronet Flats: modern apartment living arrives in Brisbane
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 ›