The following citation was prepared for the 1998 RAIA 25 Year Awards by architects Philip Leeson and Cassandra Kelleher for the ACT Chapter of the RAIA. It is reproduced here with their permission. 1998 RAIA 25 Year Award Citation In stark contrast to the archetypal … Read More →
Category Archives: Roy Grounds
4 Cobby Street, Campbell
4 Cobby Street, Campbell is a three bedroom house designed by Roy Grounds, with Theo Bischoff as project architect, in 1969-70 for Sir Otto and Lady Frankel and was completed in 1970-71. Sir Otto Frankel was Australia’s pre-eminent geneticist and head of the CSIRO Plant … Read More →
24 Cobby Street, Campbell
24 Cobby Street, Campbell was a two bedroom house designed by Roy Grounds for Dr and Mrs A J Nicholson from 1963-1964. Construction was completed in 1965. Dr Nicholson was Chief of the Division of Entomology from 1936-1960 at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research … Read More →
42, 44 and 46 Vasey Crescent, Campbell
42, 44 and 46 Vasey Crescent, Campbell were designed by Roy Grounds of the firm Grounds, Romberg and Boyd in 1960. As a result of a collaboration between the owners of each block, the three houses were designed by the same architect and built as … Read More →
Forrest Townhouses
The Forrest Townhouses at 3 Tasmania Circle, Forrest are a group of five townhouses, a small attached bedsitter and a separate courtyard house linked by carports and a covered walkway. Designed by Roy Grounds as a speculative venture in 1959, they are the only townhouses … Read More →
Roy Grounds
Roy Grounds (1905-1981) is recognised as one of Australia’s leading architects of the modern movement and a key practitioner of the post-war Melbourne regional style of architecture. Grounds was educated at Melbourne University and articled to the large architectural firm of Blackett, Forster and Craig. … Read More →
Canberra’s heritage nomination backlog beginning to shift
A large backlog of nominations to the ACT Heritage Register has been building up over the past decade. During that time the RAIA has nominated a number of important houses and buildings to the ACT Interim Heritage Places Register. Unfortunately, few of these have ended … Read More →