George Rae (architect)
Australian architect
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George Rae (born 1901) was an Australian architect. He designed some of Brisbane's best interwar apartment buildings. A number of his works are listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.[1]
Early life
Career
From 1927 to 1931, George Rae worked for Atkinson, Powell and Conrad. From 1931 to 1933, he was in partnership with Lange Leopold Powell.[1]
In his early thirties and one of Brisbane's most successful young architects, Rae had established his own architectural practice in Brisbane in 1933. Rae designed a variety of buildings, including new forms of architectural construction to Brisbane such as picture theatres and residential flats. His more substantial purpose-designed flat buildings are amongst the most important of their type and their period in Brisbane.[1]
Works
His works include:[1]
- Gympie and Widgee War Memorial Gates erected in 1920[4]
- Toowong Soldiers' Memorial erected c. 1922[5]
- Carrington (corner of Warry Street and Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill) erected in 1933
- Highview (on Dornoch Terrace, Highgate Hill) designed in 1933–34
- Casa del Mar (44 Moray Street, New Farm) erected in 1934
- Greystaines (240 Kingsford Smith Drive, Hamilton) constructed in 1934
- Green Gables (one of the Julius Street Flats) (corner of Julius and Moray streets, New Farm) erected in 1935.
- Cinema Taj, Abadan, Iran opened in 1944.
- Cinema Regent, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia opened in 1947.
- Oceanic motel, Kirra Beach, Queensland opened in 1959
