Free Download Eileen Chanin, "Capital Designs: Australia House and Visions of an Imperial London"
English | ISBN: 1925984230 | 2020 | 474 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Founded as a sovereign Commonwealth in 1901, a dominion in the British Empire, Australia set out immediately to present itself to the world as a nation with a great future. This book relates the untold story of how Australia's first diplomatic mission was conceived, designed and built. Its international showcase was to be Australia House, a splendid purpose-built building at the Aldwych in the very heart of London, the Imperial capital, and of world trade and prosperity. Commenced in 1913, Australia House was opened in 1918 while the Great War still raged. It is a story of ambitions and achievements - global, imperial, local and personal.