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Date(s)
- 1961-2010 (Creation)
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22 boxes, 8 parcels
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Administrative history
Robin Gibson established an architectural practice in Brisbane under the name R. F. Gibson Architect in the late 1950s, employing student architects Gabriel Poole, Geoffrey Pie and Robert Collin. Around 1970 the practice was renamed Robin Gibson and Partners. Over the next three decades the firm was responsible for some of the most prominent public architecture in Brisbane, including the various stages of the Queensland Cultural Centre, the Queen Street Mall, and the ANZAC-Post Office Square redevelopment. The practice was wound up in 2013 when Gibson retired.
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Scope and content
Administrative records relating to architectural design and consultancy jobs undertaken by Robin Gibson and Partners. Records include correspondence, design briefs, specifications, copies of contracts, costings, concept sketches, architectural drawings, reports, submissions and some photographs. Major projects documented in this series include the successive stages of the Queensland Cultural Centre, the Queensland Conservatorium of Music at South Bank, restoration of and extensions to St Stephen's Cathedral, and the Australian Parliament House design competition. The series also contains files of newspaper and journal articles relating to Brisbane architecture and projects for which Robin Gibson and Partners was responsible.
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Each File in the series contains records of a single job or successive jobs at the same site. Files may comprise multiple physical folders. Files 1-35 are housed in standard boxes, and files 36-59 are housed in large parcels as they consist of oversize master copies of job submissions and reports, and A3 copies of drawings.
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Unrestricted access.
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Copyright varies. May be reproduced for personal research and study.
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- English
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Status
Revised
Level of detail
Minimal
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, JR, 20-Oct-2023. Created, JR, 30-Jun-2022.