W Powrie (1864–1936)
Entry 8
Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Powrie was the principal of the Technical College in Albury in 1913,
having served in the New South Wales public service from 1890.
In 1906 he became
Resident Master, Albury, in the Technical Education branch of the
NSW Department of Public Instruction. In 1923 he became a registered
architect in NSW.
He may have taught architecture at the technical college.
Entries 8 and 36 were obviously part of the same entry, and should
be considered together. We will never know who did what work on these
two plans.
No. 8 is the stormwater scheme. It recognises the topography of the
site only as it imposes requirements for stormwater drainage. The Australian
capital appears as a giant octagon. This is an essentially mechanical
and over-rigid design. The full plan, No. 36, is preoccupied with geometry,
with a small central circle from which radiate eight avenues.
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