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Provision Reference: reg 88 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 180496–182150

the interior furniture and joinery details. Henderson later became Chief Architect in the Department of Interior, Works and Services and later in his career was the Chief Commonwealth Architect. During his career he designed a number of significant public

  buildings in the ACT including Manuka Pool, Robert Garran Offices and the Forrest Fire Station and residences.

     4.3.7   Alexander E Bruce

  Alexander Bruce was Director of Parks and Gardens from 1926 to 1936. As director, Bruce was responsible for all of Canberra's public landscape design for the period under his control.

  The use of rose gardens was typical of his influence and the landscape generally with the discrete use of hedges, scattered trees and formal street planting are fine examples of his work.

    4.4   Comparative Analysis

     4.4.1  Architectural Design

  The building design is described as the Interwar Stripped Classical style, 1915–1940.

    To the architect committed to modernism in the early
    twentieth century, radical art movements such as Cubism and de StijI provided powerful aesthetic stimuli, exploding traditional preoccupations with static symmetry. Any 'style' was considered abhorrent, none more so than a classical style. "Sterile symmetry", "meaningless", "non functional ornament" and other such derogatory phrases were used to denigrate buildings that made reference to any aspect of the classical past. The fact that some significant modern architects (e.g. Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe) had drawn strength from the classical tradition was ignored or explained away as an aberration which had somehow been corrected or eliminated.