Old drawings during the incinerator

by:oioi

This is from the Chicago architect Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937) of the modern style (Art Deco) of the design work, most of which are for municipal incinerators (that is, the crematorium).

plans in the two did not use the works

# Griffin is Canberra's urban planning division.

sourceBoingBoing, the other two plans are the following:

left is the 1934 Canada Brunswick municipal incinerator, You Tuwei 1937 Canadian capital of South Australia Thebarton crematorium

#update: Canberra have also called a lake Burley Griffin, looks like a coincidence. Canberra with extreme geometry of urban planning, people very curious about this Griffin in the end Who is:

1912, the Australian government in the world-wide assembly Xindu design, the 137 programme, only 36-year-old American architect Woertebei rationale Griffin (Walter Burley Griffin ,1876-1937), "Garden City"programme come to the fore, won the first prize. Griffin is the degree in architecture at the University of Illinois, with the United States has well-known architect Wright (FrankLloydWright1869 ~ 1959) colleagues. But Wright ignored Griffin, Griffin with the relationship breakdown. Later, he was well-known scenic division Ximengdesi (OCSimonds) proposal to begin attention to the design of a more prominent landscape, this is also the programme he was selected to be an important reason. Griffin in the design, he boldly put forward the construction of a harmonious urban and natural idea: the Canberra to Capitol Hill as the center, the construction of radiation-city streets, each street at the composition of all states in Australia , The towering Capitol symbolic centre of power, on behalf of the heart. This design has won unanimous praise the entire nation of Australia, and access to the United Nations Urban Design Gold Award. During the entire long-term capital construction projects, held in 1927 before the ceremony started, and the 1929 economic crisis and World War II also delayed the building of speed, the former parliament building to the center of the lake was completed in 1963, while the new parliament building until 1988 Years before they built to commemorate Australian artificial Griffin's contribution to his name this artificial lake. Canberra builders are good at their point Gaomingzhichu is foreseen in the urban development of new issues may arise, for example, in order to control the urban scale, according to Howard's planning theory, the four new satellite cities. Meanwhile, according to the urban population, age changes in the development of statistics to the number of annual Hunyu age, the number of children for admission, the number of nursing homes into the need to determine how much to build housing, nurseries and homes for the elderly, and ensure the orderly planning.via

in a cad of the wood, Griffin children's shoes planning Canberra General Plan:

health plans stack design:

Canberra's urban core, ultra-modern ecological construction of cattle, and so have the "World Architecture"the City Hall (it is almost perfect realization of the original design of the Griffin):

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