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    Canberra Centre

    Aug 26, 2018 4 minutes
    Words — Eugenie Keefer Bell
    Photography —
    Tom Ross Photography: Sean Fennessy

    A four-year project to restore and redevelop the historic Canberra Centre in Australia’s national capital has resulted in a dynamically revitalized urban retail precinct. Engaged by the centre’s retail-developer owner QIC Global Real Estate (QICGRE), the London-based architecture and interior design practice Universal Design Studio, along with local and executive architecture firm Mather Architecture, undertook the renovation and transformation of the centre. The work included development of a new masterplan and restored, renovated and newly designed facades and interior and exterior spaces.

    The multi-million-dollar redevelopment enhances an important section of the original modernist plans of the capital’s central business district. The centre’s location is strategic, with the three-level Ainslie

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