The Griffin entry no.29 wins the International Design Competition

One of Marion Mahony Griffin's fourteen superb ('five feet by two feet six inches') renderings that comprised the Griffin entry no.29 that won the1911-12 International Design Competition. The renderings were done in the loft at famous Steinway Hall in Chicago, workplace of the Prairie School of architects. As Paul Reid puts it: 'Something extraordinary happened in that loft in the autumn of 1911. A small group of architects, brought up within the expanding confidence of Chicagoans in their ability to improve the world and nurtured in a brilliant architectural office, were led by the [newlywed Griffins] to create a new idea: the Organic City'. Canberra had its sustainable, visionary design. This is a 'Section of the Land Axis'.