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Vale Peter Crone 18 May 1944 – 22 January 2021

Peter (Cameron) Crone was a very fine modernist designer and winner of numerous Australian Institute of Architects awards for private homes, school buildings and heritage work, including the Victorian Architecture Medal in 1993 for the chapel at Trinity Grammar School. He was the only architect I know to whom no other architect begrudged a design award. Both within the profession and outside it, he was loved and regarded as a true gentleman.

Born in Brighton in 1944, Crone studied architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of

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