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• Cameron Offices, Belconnen Town Centre, Canbera ACT 1969 -1977 -- John Andrews International

  -- also known as
  Government Office Complex Belconnen, National Capital Development Commission, Canberra, Australia -- John Andrews Architects
  

  General office space and communal facilities creating the first phase of a satelite town.

  
  

  • "a government office complex ... to accommodate 4000 persons in 600,000 square feet at cost of $4000 per worker place." (John Andrews in Jennifer Taylor, 1982)

  • "... the required density, 1,000,000 square feet on six acres gross, 660 workers per acre, the equivalent of three storey building covering the entire site." (John Andrews in Jennifer Taylor, 1982)

  • "The proposed complex was to house the deparment of census and statistics, accommodating 3,000 personnel and a computer service centre ..." (ca_76.07)

  • Peter Courtney, Bruce Lincoln
    T. C. Whittle Pty Ltd
    1,000,000 sq ft
    1968 - 1975 (a+u_7405)

  • Cost: $16,000,000 (jaa_1970)
    
    

  • a skeleton with joints
    "a single, great, low building to serve as street, office community and public system all in one." (Jaquelin T. Robertson, arec_80.10)

• Commonwealth Heritage Place
• Comsuper Australia

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• Centraal Beheer, Amsterdam -- Herman Hertzberger

• Scarborough College, Toronto -- John Andrews
• Gund Hall - Harvard GSD, Cambridge MA -- John Andrews
• King George Tower, Sydney -- John Andrews