The majority of this collection comprises drawings, posters and essays produced by Douglas McKay for assessment purposes during his architecture degree at The University of Queensland from 1963 to 1968. The collection also includes an entry by McKay and Donald Watson in a 1967 residential design competition, drawings completed by McKay for commercial architectural firms while still a student, and posters for university student revues.

Architectural drawings of residential and commercial buildings, job files, incoming and outgoing correspondence, photographs and research material for his book on Walter Burley Griffin. Includes plans by Scorer and Scorer which Birrell obtained when he purchased the firm in 1966. The architectural drawings in this collection include those from his student days, his time with the Commonwealth Department of Works, the Brisbane City Council, the University of Queensland (as University Architect), and his private practices. Drawings for buildings not constructed are also in this collection.

Copies of nine architectural drawings of the University of Queensland by Hennessy, Hennessy and Co. from 1936, based on the article in Building. All drawings have the title block of Hennessy, Hennessy and Co.

Accompanied by an article from Building, 12 Oct 1936 with information about the plans and the early St. Lucia site, donated by Peter Brown of the St. Lucia History Group.

Includes photocopy of the design for sandblasted ceiling for the glass dome of the Library building (which was never executed).

Item 1: Preliminary Layout University of Queensland, undated, 46 x 58 cm.
Item 2: Union Building from the north west, undated, 46 x 58 cm.
Item 3: Physics and Geology Buildings from the quadrangle, undated, 46 x 58 cm.
Item 4: Perspective view of the Administration Building from the quadrangle, undated, 46 x 48 cm.
Item 5: Perspective view of the Great Hall, undated, 46 x 48 cm.
Item 6: Interior view of the Great Hall, undated, 46 x 48 cm.
Item 7: Perspective view of the entrance to Arts School from the quadrangle, undated, 46 x 48 cm.
Item 8: Section showing the Physics and Union Building, undated, 46 x 58 cm.
Item 9: Sandblasting designs. Library building, [date indecipherable], 30 x 42 cm.

The architectural drawings in this collection were prepared in Brisbane for the Wattle Day League Scholarship, drawings prepared while R P Cummings was a student at the Architectural Association, London, including his successful submission for the Rome Scholarship, and drawings prepared in Rome, including measured drawings and reconstructions.