Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L00148:reg:2017:p26
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Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2017 (pt 26/81)
Character Range: 111926–114797

practice produced a number of important buildings, mostly in Sydney.  He was also prominent in his contributions on the link between housing and town planning in Australia, and was very active on government committees and professional boards.  Bruce Hall was also designed by Bunning and Madden and is the other prominent Canberra building he is associated with, though this is to be demolished.

Every designer or creator has an association with the thing created, but the criterion requires a special association which goes beyond the ordinary.  In this case, the Library has a special association with Bunning as his best-known design, and for his intimate involvement with the project.[77]

    'As principal architect, he interested himself in all aspects of construction and furnishings, including the design of art works, and in 1965 visited France to arrange for the weaving of tapestries to hang in its foyer.'[78]

Bass was the sculptor responsible for the major artwork at the entrance to the Library.  He is an important figure in Australian art, especially public art in the post-war period.  He was responsible for over 60 major sculptures, and his other major Canberra work is Ethos from 1962 in Civic Square.  The Library has a special association with Bass as the location for his Lintel Sculpture, one of his two prominent major sculptures in Canberra.[79]

French created the stained glass windows on the ground floor of the Library, and was an important Australian artist known principally for stained glass works.  French completed other major glass works for the National Gallery of Victoria and the Haileybury Chapel in Melbourne.  The NGV work is an especially large installation.  In Canberra, French also completed a number of murals or paintings, including a large work Regeneration at University House.  The NGV would lay claim to a special association with French given its size, prominence in perceptions of his career, and majesty.  However, it is not clear that the Library work has such an association.[80]

Matégot was a Hungarian/French designer who was prominent in the 1950s, and designed the tapestries in the Library foyer.  However, his only known association with Australia was to design the tapestries using Australian themes.  Accordingly, the connection to Australia's cultural history is only slight, and does not meet the requirements of this criterion.[81]

Petherick was a prominent Australian book collector in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  He sold his extensive private collection of Australian material to the then Commonwealth National Library, which later became the National Library of Australia.  The collection was the basis of the Library's Australian holdings.  A condition of the sale was that the Commonwealth employ him to continue a bibliography, which was achieved by way of a special Act of