CLINT KEIZER: 014 [W4] PARLIAMENT HISTORY

In May 1911, competition kits were circulated across Australia and throughout the world, courtesy of many hundred of metre -long wooden boxes containing virtual everything a prospective entrant might need. The british embassy in Washington distributed more than 170 kits alone, and the australian high commission in long allocated even more. Some 725 kits were produced for circulation.

Each kit box contained:
A five-part set of instructions, 'information, Conditions and Particulars for guidance in the Preparation of competitive designs for the federal capital city of the commonwealth of australia' ( Invitation, Conditions, historical and introductory, requirements and [site] descriptions: a map of the preliminary contour survey of the yass-canberra area; two copies of the map of the contour survey of the actual site; a topographical map of the federal (in 1938, the Australian) capital territory, which had been established formally only months earlier, on 1 january 1911; a map of NSW; a map of south - eastern part of NSW; a geological map of the city site; a map indicating both rainfall and temperature statistics for the capital site and region; a report by the commonwealth meteorologist on climate in the yass-canberra district; and two superb cyclorama reproductions sketching 260 degrees of the cit site landscape - one drawn at what is now city hill and the other from capital hill.

Kits were dispatched to : Wellington, Ottawa, Pretoria and Cape-town, London, Paris, Berlin, Washington DC, New York and Chicago - and to the public works departments of each Australian state. They were routinely made available, as well, at the department of home affairs office in Melbourne.

A few quick stats can be found at this >> website <<

Below are a few images i have found throughout researching Canberra:

Canberra geological 1964

Map of Canberra

Location Plan - Canberra

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The follow images have been compiled for investigation into existing parliament components.
I have curated a selection which i feel will help envision the ultimate details of the project.

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