AUSTRALIA'S CAPITAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2854, 19 August 1916, Page 12

AUSTRALIA'S CAPITAL

'-COMPETITIVE DESIGNS FOR PARLIAMENTARY BUILDINGS. It has been decided'by the Federal Ministry- to revive the architectural competition for a design for the Federal Parliament House at Canberra, which was suspended in September,' 1914. ' Designs must be in by January 31, 1917. A total sum of £6000 is to be paid-away in'premiums for the first eight designs. The judges are Mr. G. T. Poole (Western Australia), Sir John James i Burnett (Great Britain), M. Victor'Laloux (Franco), M. Efiel Saarinen (Russia),; and Mr.- L. H, Sullivan (America). Professor Otto TTagner, of Vienna, who was one of the judges when the competition was first announced, has been replaced by M. Saarinon. The premiums to be awarded are as follow:—First, £2000; second, £1500; third, £1000.; fourth, £500; fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth, £250. In explaining the scheme of competition the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley) said, that the would ompjoy tho competitor placed first by the judges as architect for the initial portion of the building, and also the subsequent stage 3 as the construction of tho whole building would spread over a number of yoars. TJiis promise, however, cannot bo taken to bind the Ministry to employ the architecti.n .the later stages.