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- 1964-1971 (Creation)
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45 drawings in 1 oversize tube
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Herbert Stanley MacDonald was born in 1901. In 1928 MacDonald formed a partnership with George Frederick Addison, trading as G.H.M. Addison and Son and H.S. MacDonald. Addison had joined his father George Henry Male Addison in business in 1919 and Addison senior had died in 1922. MacDonald and Addison are best known for the Queensland Brewery Company Building at 501 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley. The building is in the Functionalist Style and was constructed between 1940 and 1942. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 (as the Credit Union Australia Building). In 1940 MacDonald and Addison dissolved their partnership and MacDonald began trading under his name. In 1952 he designed the Substation No. 75 at 93 Wellington Rd, East Brisbane for the City Electric Light Company (now Energex). This building is listed as a Brisbane Local Heritage place. MacDonald died in 1972.
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45 architectural drawings for several proposals for a new Brisbane Administration Centre behind City Hall, 1964 - 1971. All of MacDonald's proposals were seemingly rejected by Council and Conrad Gargett were engaged to design a building which was eventually opened in 1975.
1964: Seven (7) drawings. 21 December 1964. Ink on vellum paper. Proposal for a narrow 7-story building abutting the rear of City Hall, with double-story height Council Chambers on Level 7. With small plaza with fountains next to adjoining George Street property, the existing Lennons Hotel.
1967: Two (2) drawings prepared by O & M Branch, floor plans of parts of the third floor of City Hall. And: Eleven (11) drawings. 7 August 1967. Marked Preliminary drawings. Ink on vellum paper. Proposal for a 13-story building abutting the rear of City Hall, with double-story height Council Chambers on Level 13. Next to adjoining George Street property, the existing Lennons Hotel. And: Three (3) drawings. December 1967. Marked Proposal 4, Scheme 1. Ink on vellum paper. Includes Ground floor plan, and 2 perspective drawings of Adelaide Street entrance and Public Concourse feature.
1968: Seven (7) drawings. 12 February 1968. Ink on vellum paper. With piece of paper marked Hansford Report Drawings. Reduction Negatives and Print to N. Hansford. Each drawing with Elevation and Site Plan of a) Existing; b) Proposal; 1 c) Proposal 2; d) Proposal 2A; e) Proposal 4; f) Proposal 4, Scheme 1 – Final Development; g) Proposal 5
1969: Six (6) drawings numbered 1 – 5 and 2A. November 1969. Marked Further development of Proposal 4, Scheme 1. Ink on vellum paper. Proposal for a 19-story building with underground parking and an adjoining new 11-story hotel building with underground parking, bus terminal and ground level pedestrian concourse and shopping area. The drawings show the entire site, including City Hall.
1969 - 197: Nine (9) drawings numbered 1A – 9A, November 1969 – June 1971. Marked Further development of Proposal 4, Scheme 1. Amended. Ink on vellum paper. A similar proposal as 1969 but with a shopping plaza instead of a hotel and with underground bus lanes. Drawing 2A is a Composite drawing showing Overall General Development, also showing a reconfigured King George Square. Drawing 6A is an elevation to King George Square, showing the building with the city’s Coat of arms behind City Hall. Drawing 9A is a perspective drawing of the proposed plaza and administration building as seen from George Street.
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Brisbane City Archives holds a set of ten (10) H. S. MacDonald drawings for the proposed building dated 1968-1969. Call number BCA1976.
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Created, JH, 10-Apr-2025