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The building at 80 George St was commissioned as Queensland Government Offices. It is currently being demolished to make way for a new development. This model features a number of fine elements, including the trees and other greenery. Great care was taken to build a model which accurately reflected the architect’s intentions for the site.

Thanks to Ditto Labs and SiteSee, this architectural model is available online in 3D for the first time. To view online visit SiteSee.

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Item ID 2781814

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The Queensland Housing Commission was constituted in pursuance of the provisions of the State Housing Act of 1945 which was proclaimed on 10 December 1945. The Commission amalgamated with the Local Government Department to form the Department of Housing and Local Government in December 1989.

The Housing Commission was established to address the post-war housing shortage. Its functions were: planning, construction, acquisition and maintenance of houses under the State Housing Acts and Commonwealth and State Housing Agreements; acquisition and development of estates for housing; granting of loans for home ownership; sale and rental of Housing Commission dwellings; also to advise Local Authorities in regard to building by-laws and similar matters.

In the 1960s and 1970s the Commission branched out from large estate development to unit blocks and attached housing. With the repeal of the State Housing Act of 1945 by the Housing Act 2003, the Housing Commission

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The Land Administration Building model measures at 600mm in length and 285mm in width at the base. It is evident that the model maker took care to include the smallest details, from the miniature cars to the various characters on footpaths.

Thanks to Ditto Labs and SiteSee, this architectural model is available online in 3D for the first time. To view online visit SiteSee.

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Item ID 1680335

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This scale model takes in Roma St Train Station, parts of Roma St Parklands, Brisbane City Hall and riverfront. The focal point of this model is the Magistrates Court Precinct, including the Supreme Court building.

Thanks to Ditto Labs and SiteSee, this architectural model is available online in 3D for the first time. To view online visit SiteSee.

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Item ID 1680368

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Building Plans For Brisbane

If all the building plans for city business houses which may have been “on the ice” for years past could be carried out in one night nobody would be able to recognise Brisbane the next day, write our Brisbane correspondent.

But one rather suspects that quite a lot of these alleged plans were as much smoke as anything else. It is just as well that credit restrictions are still in force to some extent, otherwise Queen-street would soon be a mass of scaffolding, according to all the talk, and pedestrians would have to use the roadway instead of the footpaths.

There are a great number of old buildings in our main street which urgently need extensive alteration to make them at all modern. lots of them will have to be demolished, as nothing could be done with them. They are merely old brick shells,

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