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Roy Grounds

Sir Roy Burman Grounds (18 December 1905 – 2 March 1981) was an Australian architect. His early work included buildings influenced by the Moderne movement of the 1930s, and his later buildings of the 1950s and 1960s, such as the National Gallery of Victoria and the adjacent Victorian Arts Centre, cemented his legacy as a leader in Australian architecture.

Sir Roy Grounds
Born(1905-12-18)18 December 1905
Died2 March 1981(1981-03-02) (aged 75)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
EducationMelbourne University
Known forNational Gallery of Victoria
Victorian Arts Centre
Scientific career
FieldsArchitecture

Artist Marr Grounds was his son.

Early life and education edit

Born on 18 December 1905[1] in Melbourne, Grounds was educated at several schools, including Scotch College Melbourne and Melbourne Church of England Grammar School.[citation needed]

In the mid 1920s, he began his articles with the architectural firm of Blackett, Forster and Craig, where Geoffrey Mewton was doing the same. By 1928 they were both studying at the University of Melbourne Architectural Atelier,[citation needed] where they won first prize in an Institute of Architects Exhibition for a house costing under £1000.[2] They both also won scholarships to further their studies later that year.[3][4]

After graduating in 1928 they travelled to London together with another student, Oscar Bayne, where they all shared digs.[5] After working in London for a while, Grounds then worked in the United States for two years.[citation needed] It was there that his son, Marr Grounds was born.[6][7]

Career edit

On his return to Australia in 1932, Grounds shared an office with Mewton, who had already set up a solo practice the previous year, where they worked on projects separately, but published under "Mewton & Grounds". One of their first projects that is attributed to Grounds was radically modern for Melbourne - located in the hills of Upper Beaconsfield, Wildfell, built in 1933, was a long flat roofed rectilinear composition of white painted brick, with red and cream brick details and corner windows.[8] This was followed in 1934 by the Milky Way Cafe in Little Collins Street, a venture of the United Milk Producers Society[9] to encourage milk consumption, with modern tubular steel furniture and flush recessed lighting panels. While Mewton produced many designs in a Modernism combining the brick volumes of Willem Dudok with European Bauhaus starkness, Grounds' distinctive work was influenced by the simple, rough modernism of US West Coast architect William Wurster. The most notable expression of this influence are a series of houses including Portland Lodge, Lyncroft and the Ramsay House, all on the Mornington Peninsula, the Fairbairn House in Toorak and the house for the Chateau Tahbilk winery.[citation needed]

Grounds also designed in a more Streamline Moderne style, with his own family holiday house on the peninsula[where?] nicknamed "The Ship" due to its long horizontal asbestos-cement sheet flat forms topped by a pipe railing and a glass walled lookout, and the similarly styled Rosanove House in nearby Frankston.[citation needed]

In about 1937, Grounds ended the partnership with Mewton, spending time in England again until 1939.[citation needed]

Grounds returned and established a solo practice between 1939 and 1942, and designed a series of unusually modern flat developments in the Toorak area which further established his reputation as a modernist: Moonbria, with its balustrades topped with Swedish blue tiles[10] and Quamby 1939-41, both situated in Toorak, are buildings which consist of studio, one or two-bedroom apartments.[11]

During World War II he served in the Royal Australian Air Force (1942-45) as a Flight Lieutenant, performing works and camouflage duties. After the war, Grounds retired for a few years, returning in 1951 as a senior lecturer at the School of Architecture at Melbourne University. In 1953, he resumed his architectural practice and produced a series of houses, including his own, based on pure geometric shapes. The Leyser House was triangular, the Henty House was circular, and his own house was square, with a central circular courtyard. This theme was repeated in later projects, including the circular Round House in Hobart, and the square Master's Lodge at Ormond College.[citation needed]

When Grounds, Frederick Romberg and Robin Boyd formed their partnership in 1953 all were well established in Victoria. Each brought substantial work to the practice, which they usually worked on separately, and the firm became very successful.[citation needed]

 
The Shine Dome of the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra.

Grounds' first large commission was for the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra. The construction of its reinforced concrete dome was a considerable technical achievement. Opened in 1959, it won the Meritorious Architecture Award of the Canberra Area Committee of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) and the Sulman Award for Architectural Merit. The Academy building also led to other work in Canberra, initially for the firm and later Grounds himself. Grounds opened a Canberra office in the Forrest Townhouses (1959), which he designed and partly financed.

In 1959 the firm was awarded the commission to design the National Gallery of Victoria and Arts Centre, with Grounds named in the contract as the architect in charge. When Boyd and Romberg were mildly critical of the preliminary geometric designs that Grounds showed them, relations between the partners became strained, and in 1962 Grounds left the partnership, taking the commission with him and setting up his own company with Oscar Bayne.

Under a building committee chaired by the philanthropist Ken Myer, Grounds devoted the next twenty years of his life to the completion of the Arts Centre. His longest-serving architectural associates throughout this period were Alan Nelson, Fritz Suendermann, Lou Gerhardt and Allan Stillman. While the gallery was brought in on time and budget, the complicated Yarra River site for the Concert Hall and Theatre Complex resulted in building delays and criticism. Unlike the fate that befell Jørn Utzon on the Sydney Opera House project, Grounds managed to hold on to his commission from the Victorian Government despite tumult within his company in the late 1970s. Grounds showed Queen Elizabeth II the massive excavations shortly before his death.[12] Much of the theatres' interior designs were completed by John Truscott after Grounds' death.

One of his last designs was Hobart's iconic 18-story octagonal tower and Wrest Point Hotel Casino complex.

Recognition and honours edit

Death and legacy edit

Grounds died on 2 March 1981.[1]

His early work included buildings influenced by the Moderne movement of the 1930s, and his later buildings of the 1950s and 1960s, such as the National Gallery of Victoria and the adjacent Victorian Arts Centre, cemented his legacy as a leader in Australian architecture.[14]

In 2011, with the opening of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart, Tasmania, two houses designed and built there by Grounds in 1957–1958 for Claudio Alcorso on the Moorilla Estate—the Courtyard House and the Round House—became respectively the entrance and the library of Australia's largest private museum.[15]

Family and personal life edit

Grounds married Regina Marr, an American divorcee (aka Virginia Lammers; Marr was her maiden name). Their son, artist Marr Grounds, was born in Los Angeles in 1930.[6]

There was not a close relationship between father and son, and the parents split in 1939 and divorced a couple of years later in 1941.[7] Roy Grounds created a scandal when he left his wife for the wife of Tom Ramsay, Alice Bettine Ramsay. Ramsay (son of William Ramsay) was known as "Mr Kiwi Boot Polish". The Grounds family lived in the affluent suburb of Toorak at the time.[7]

Marr was married to artist Joan Grounds for some time, and died in New South Wales in 2021. Although he lectured in architecture, he never practised as an architect. He was known for his sculpture, and for co-founding the art workshop Tin Sheds at Sydney University with Donald Brook.[6]

Key works edit

Mewton & Grounds

Attributed to both but likely Grounds:[5]

  • 'Portland Lodge', Henty House, 1 Plummer Avenue Olivers Hill, Frankston (c1935)[16] (this is adjacent to his 1953 Henty House)
  • Fairbairn House, 236 Kooyong Road, Toorak VIC (1935–36)[17]
  • Flats, 2-6 North Road, Brighton VIC (1936)[18] Altered.
  • House, 493 Kooyong Road, Elsternwick (1936)[19]

Attributed to Grounds:[5]

  • 'The Ship' (Grounds' family house), 35 Rannoch Avenue, Mt Eliza (1935)[20]
  • Rosanove House, 12 Gould Street Frankston (c1935, demolished)[21]
  • Lyncroft, 410 Tucks Road, Shoreham (1935)[22]
  • Chateau Tahbilk homestead, 254 O'Neils Road, Tahbilk (1935)
  • Thomas House, 12 Reid Street Balwyn, (c1935, demolished)[23]
  • Ramsay House, 2 Rendelsham Avenue, Mt Eliza (1937)[24]
  • 2nd Milky Way cafe, 175 Collins Street (1937)[25]

Roy Grounds

  • Clendon Flats, 13 Clendon Road, Armadale (1939-1940)[26]
  • Moonbria Flats, 68 Mathoura Road, Toorak (1939-1941)[27][28]
  • Quamby Flats, 3 Glover Court, Toorak (1939-1941)[29][30]
  • Clendon Corner, Armadale (1939-1941)[31]
  • Leyser House, Kew (1952) Altered.
  • Grounds House and flats, 24 Hill Street, Toorak (1953)[32]
  • Henty House (Round house), 581 Nepean Highway, Olivers Hill, Frankston South (1953)[33]

Grounds Romberg & Boyd

  • Currawong Ski Lodge, 13 Jack Adams Pathway, Thredbo NSW (1957)[34]
  • Mirrabooka, 30-34 Moore Road, Vermont, Melbourne[35]
  • The Courtyard House (1957) and The Round House (1958), Moorilla Estate (both now part of The Museum of Old and New Art), 655 Main Rd, Berriedale, Hobart
  • Masters Lodge, Ormond College, Melbourne University (1958)[36]
  • Vice Masters Lodge (alterations), Ormond College, Melbourne University (1958)[36]
  • Australian Academy of Science (Shine Dome), 15 Gordon St, Acton, Canberra (1959)[37]
  • Forrest Townhouses, 3 Tasmania Circle, Forrest (1959)[38]
  • Vasey Crescent Houses, 42, 44 and 46 Vasey Crescent, Campbell (1960)[39]
  • McNicoll House, 19 Gordon Grove, South Yarra (1962-3).[40]

Roy Grounds & Co. Pty. Ltd.

Gallery of works edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Sir Roy Burman Grounds (1905–1981)". Grounds, Sir Roy Burman (1905–1981). National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "Institute of Architects' Exhibition". Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). 1 May 1928. p. 8. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  3. ^ "ARCHITECT'S SCHOLARSHIP". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 16 March 1928. p. 7. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Architectural school". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 25 July 1928. p. 14. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  5. ^ a b c Goad, P and Willis, J (2012). "The Encyclopaedia of Australian Architecture", p. 452-453. Cambridge University Press, Victoria, Australia. ISBN 978-0-521-88857-8
  6. ^ a b c "Marr Grounds". Art Gallery of NSW. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  7. ^ a b c Grounds, Marr (30 March 2015). (PDF) (Interview). Art Gallery of New South Wales Archive: Balnaves Foundation Australian Sculpture Archive Project. Interviewed by Edwards, Deborah. Balnaves Foundation. Art Gallery of NSW. Archived from the original (transcript) on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2023. This is an edited transcript of a recorded interview.
  8. ^ "Sunshine Home at Upper Beaconsfield". Trove. 24 May 1933. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  9. ^ ""THE MILKY WAY"". Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). 14 February 1934. p. 5. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  10. ^ Goade, P. (1999). Melbourne Architecture. Watermark Press. p. 1940. ISBN 9780949284365. Retrieved 8 October 2021. Moonbria Flats Mathoura Road , Toorak [1939-]1941 Roy Grounds GC ... northfacing access balconies (with balustrades topped with Swedish blue tiles) are ...
  11. ^ Stephens, J. (11 September 2014). "Moonbria". © 2018 ASSEMBLE COMMUNITIES PTY LTD. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  12. ^ Rod Kinnear's recollections of televised dedication ceremony quoted in McColl Jones, Mike (1999). And Now Here’s..., Aerospace Publications, Canberra, p. 177.
  13. ^ It's an Honour
  14. ^ Roy Grounds. © 2021 Architecture Media. 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  15. ^ "Museum of Old & New Art (MONA)". ArchitectureAU. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  16. ^ "Ormond College". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  17. ^ "House at 236 Kooyong Road Toorak, 1936". State Library Victoria. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  18. ^ "UNIQUE FLATS AT BRIGHTON". Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954). 3 March 1937. p. 18. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  19. ^ "Measured Drawing, 493 Kooyong Road, Elsternwick". State Library Victoria. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  20. ^ "The Ship". Victorian Heritage Database.
  21. ^ "House at 12 Gould Street Frankston, 1935". State Library Victoria. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  22. ^ "Lyncroft". Victorian Heritage Database.
  23. ^ "House at 8 Reid Street Balwyn, 1935". State Library Victoria. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  24. ^ "Ramsay House". Victorian Heritage Database.
  25. ^ "Harmony in the Modern Manner". The Modern Store. September 1937. pp. 10–11.
  26. ^ Edquist, H. (2000). Frederick Romberg: The Architecture of Migration 1938-1975. RMIT University Press. p. 19. ISBN 9780864590800. Retrieved 15 October 2021. ...while a little later, in 1939-1941, Roy Grounds designed Clendon and Clendon Corner in Armadale; Moonbria in Mathoura Road, Toorak and Quamby in...
  27. ^ Edquist, H. (2000). Frederick Romberg: The Architecture of Migration 1938-1975. RMIT University Press. p. 19. ISBN 9780864590800. Retrieved 15 October 2021. ...while a little later, in 1939-1941, Roy Grounds designed Clendon and Clendon Corner in Armadale; Moonbria in Mathoura Road, Toorak and Quamby in...
  28. ^ "Moonbria - Sir Roy Grounds". Weebly. Retrieved 15 October 2021. Roy Grounds had a select group of forward thinking well-heeled avant-garde clients, and in 1939 one of them asked him to build 'something good' on a vacant bit of land they owned at 68 Mathoura Road in Toorak. The brief was simple; It had to...
  29. ^ Edquist, H. (2000). Frederick Romberg: The Architecture of Migration 1938-1975. RMIT University Press. p. 19. ISBN 9780864590800. Retrieved 15 October 2021. ...while a little later, in 1939-1941, Roy Grounds designed Clendon and Clendon Corner in Armadale; Moonbria in Mathoura Road, Toorak and Quamby in...
  30. ^ "Quamby". Victorian Heritage Database.
  31. ^ Edquist, H. (2000). Frederick Romberg: The Architecture of Migration 1938-1975. RMIT University Press. p. 19. ISBN 9780864590800. Retrieved 15 October 2021. ...while a little later, in 1939-1941, Roy Grounds designed Clendon and Clendon Corner in Armadale; Moonbria in Mathoura Road, Toorak and Quamby in...
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  33. ^ "Round House". Victorian Heritage Database.
  34. ^ Currawong Ski Lodge
  35. ^ "Mirrabooka". Vermont - The Story of a Community. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
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  38. ^ "Canberra house | Forrest Townhouses, 3 Tasmania Circle, Forrest (1959)". www.canberrahouse.com.au. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  39. ^ "Canberra house | 42, 44 and 46 Vasey Crescent, Campbell (1960)". www.canberrahouse.com.au. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  40. ^ "'McNicoll House' 19 Gordon Gr, South Yarra VIC | Modernist Australia". Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  41. ^ CSIRO. "Phytotron Building". www.csiro.au. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
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  43. ^ "Canberra house | 4 Cobby Street, Campbell (1969-70)". www.canberrahouse.com.au. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  44. ^ Grishin, S. (1995). Leonard French. Craftsman House. p. 40. ISBN 9789768097910. Retrieved 19 October 2021. Roy Grounds received the commission for the Robert Blackwood Hall at Monash University in 1968, at the high point...
  45. ^ "Victorian Arts Centre". Victorian Heritage Database.

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Roy Grounds news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Sir Roy Burman Grounds 18 December 1905 2 March 1981 was an Australian architect His early work included buildings influenced by the Moderne movement of the 1930s and his later buildings of the 1950s and 1960s such as the National Gallery of Victoria and the adjacent Victorian Arts Centre cemented his legacy as a leader in Australian architecture Sir Roy GroundsBorn 1905 12 18 18 December 1905Melbourne Victoria AustraliaDied2 March 1981 1981 03 02 aged 75 Melbourne Victoria AustraliaEducationMelbourne UniversityKnown forNational Gallery of VictoriaVictorian Arts CentreScientific careerFieldsArchitectureArtist Marr Grounds was his son Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Recognition and honours 4 Death and legacy 5 Family and personal life 6 Key works 7 Gallery of works 8 References 9 SourcesEarly life and education editBorn on 18 December 1905 1 in Melbourne Grounds was educated at several schools including Scotch College Melbourne and Melbourne Church of England Grammar School citation needed In the mid 1920s he began his articles with the architectural firm of Blackett Forster and Craig where Geoffrey Mewton was doing the same By 1928 they were both studying at the University of Melbourne Architectural Atelier citation needed where they won first prize in an Institute of Architects Exhibition for a house costing under 1000 2 They both also won scholarships to further their studies later that year 3 4 After graduating in 1928 they travelled to London together with another student Oscar Bayne where they all shared digs 5 After working in London for a while Grounds then worked in the United States for two years citation needed It was there that his son Marr Grounds was born 6 7 Career editOn his return to Australia in 1932 Grounds shared an office with Mewton who had already set up a solo practice the previous year where they worked on projects separately but published under Mewton amp Grounds One of their first projects that is attributed to Grounds was radically modern for Melbourne located in the hills of Upper Beaconsfield Wildfell built in 1933 was a long flat roofed rectilinear composition of white painted brick with red and cream brick details and corner windows 8 This was followed in 1934 by the Milky Way Cafe in Little Collins Street a venture of the United Milk Producers Society 9 to encourage milk consumption with modern tubular steel furniture and flush recessed lighting panels While Mewton produced many designs in a Modernism combining the brick volumes of Willem Dudok with European Bauhaus starkness Grounds distinctive work was influenced by the simple rough modernism of US West Coast architect William Wurster The most notable expression of this influence are a series of houses including Portland Lodge Lyncroft and the Ramsay House all on the Mornington Peninsula the Fairbairn House in Toorak and the house for the Chateau Tahbilk winery citation needed Grounds also designed in a more Streamline Moderne style with his own family holiday house on the peninsula where nicknamed The Ship due to its long horizontal asbestos cement sheet flat forms topped by a pipe railing and a glass walled lookout and the similarly styled Rosanove House in nearby Frankston citation needed In about 1937 Grounds ended the partnership with Mewton spending time in England again until 1939 citation needed Grounds returned and established a solo practice between 1939 and 1942 and designed a series of unusually modern flat developments in the Toorak area which further established his reputation as a modernist Moonbria with its balustrades topped with Swedish blue tiles 10 and Quamby 1939 41 both situated in Toorak are buildings which consist of studio one or two bedroom apartments 11 During World War II he served in the Royal Australian Air Force 1942 45 as a Flight Lieutenant performing works and camouflage duties After the war Grounds retired for a few years returning in 1951 as a senior lecturer at the School of Architecture at Melbourne University In 1953 he resumed his architectural practice and produced a series of houses including his own based on pure geometric shapes The Leyser House was triangular the Henty House was circular and his own house was square with a central circular courtyard This theme was repeated in later projects including the circular Round House in Hobart and the square Master s Lodge at Ormond College citation needed When Grounds Frederick Romberg and Robin Boyd formed their partnership in 1953 all were well established in Victoria Each brought substantial work to the practice which they usually worked on separately and the firm became very successful citation needed nbsp The Shine Dome of the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra Grounds first large commission was for the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra The construction of its reinforced concrete dome was a considerable technical achievement Opened in 1959 it won the Meritorious Architecture Award of the Canberra Area Committee of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects RAIA and the Sulman Award for Architectural Merit The Academy building also led to other work in Canberra initially for the firm and later Grounds himself Grounds opened a Canberra office in the Forrest Townhouses 1959 which he designed and partly financed In 1959 the firm was awarded the commission to design the National Gallery of Victoria and Arts Centre with Grounds named in the contract as the architect in charge When Boyd and Romberg were mildly critical of the preliminary geometric designs that Grounds showed them relations between the partners became strained and in 1962 Grounds left the partnership taking the commission with him and setting up his own company with Oscar Bayne Under a building committee chaired by the philanthropist Ken Myer Grounds devoted the next twenty years of his life to the completion of the Arts Centre His longest serving architectural associates throughout this period were Alan Nelson Fritz Suendermann Lou Gerhardt and Allan Stillman While the gallery was brought in on time and budget the complicated Yarra River site for the Concert Hall and Theatre Complex resulted in building delays and criticism Unlike the fate that befell Jorn Utzon on the Sydney Opera House project Grounds managed to hold on to his commission from the Victorian Government despite tumult within his company in the late 1970s Grounds showed Queen Elizabeth II the massive excavations shortly before his death 12 Much of the theatres interior designs were completed by John Truscott after Grounds death One of his last designs was Hobart s iconic 18 story octagonal tower and Wrest Point Hotel Casino complex Recognition and honours edit1959 RAIA Meritorious Architecture Award 1959 Sir John Sulman Medal for Architectural Merit 1968 RAIA Gold Medal Royal Australian Institute of Architects 1969 Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II 13 1969 elected a life fellow of the RAIA 1998 ACT 25 Year Award for Vasey Crescent Houses Campbell 2001 ACT 25 Year Award for Australian Academy of Science 2018 ACT Award for Enduring Architecture renamed the Sir Roy Grounds Award for Enduring ArchitectureDeath and legacy editGrounds died on 2 March 1981 1 His early work included buildings influenced by the Moderne movement of the 1930s and his later buildings of the 1950s and 1960s such as the National Gallery of Victoria and the adjacent Victorian Arts Centre cemented his legacy as a leader in Australian architecture 14 In 2011 with the opening of the Museum of Old and New Art MONA in Hobart Tasmania two houses designed and built there by Grounds in 1957 1958 for Claudio Alcorso on the Moorilla Estate the Courtyard House and the Round House became respectively the entrance and the library of Australia s largest private museum 15 Family and personal life editGrounds married Regina Marr an American divorcee aka Virginia Lammers Marr was her maiden name Their son artist Marr Grounds was born in Los Angeles in 1930 6 There was not a close relationship between father and son and the parents split in 1939 and divorced a couple of years later in 1941 7 Roy Grounds created a scandal when he left his wife for the wife of Tom Ramsay Alice Bettine Ramsay Ramsay son of William Ramsay was known as Mr Kiwi Boot Polish The Grounds family lived in the affluent suburb of Toorak at the time 7 Marr was married to artist Joan Grounds for some time and died in New South Wales in 2021 Although he lectured in architecture he never practised as an architect He was known for his sculpture and for co founding the art workshop Tin Sheds at Sydney University with Donald Brook 6 Key works editMewton amp GroundsAttributed to both but likely Grounds 5 Portland Lodge Henty House 1 Plummer Avenue Olivers Hill Frankston c1935 16 this is adjacent to his 1953 Henty House Fairbairn House 236 Kooyong Road Toorak VIC 1935 36 17 Flats 2 6 North Road Brighton VIC 1936 18 Altered House 493 Kooyong Road Elsternwick 1936 19 Attributed to Grounds 5 The Ship Grounds family house 35 Rannoch Avenue Mt Eliza 1935 20 Rosanove House 12 Gould Street Frankston c1935 demolished 21 Lyncroft 410 Tucks Road Shoreham 1935 22 Chateau Tahbilk homestead 254 O Neils Road Tahbilk 1935 Thomas House 12 Reid Street Balwyn c1935 demolished 23 Ramsay House 2 Rendelsham Avenue Mt Eliza 1937 24 2nd Milky Way cafe 175 Collins Street 1937 25 Roy Grounds Clendon Flats 13 Clendon Road Armadale 1939 1940 26 Moonbria Flats 68 Mathoura Road Toorak 1939 1941 27 28 Quamby Flats 3 Glover Court Toorak 1939 1941 29 30 Clendon Corner Armadale 1939 1941 31 Leyser House Kew 1952 Altered Grounds House and flats 24 Hill Street Toorak 1953 32 Henty House Round house 581 Nepean Highway Olivers Hill Frankston South 1953 33 Grounds Romberg amp Boyd Currawong Ski Lodge 13 Jack Adams Pathway Thredbo NSW 1957 34 Mirrabooka 30 34 Moore Road Vermont Melbourne 35 The Courtyard House 1957 and The Round House 1958 Moorilla Estate both now part of The Museum of Old and New Art 655 Main Rd Berriedale Hobart Masters Lodge Ormond College Melbourne University 1958 36 Vice Masters Lodge alterations Ormond College Melbourne University 1958 36 Australian Academy of Science Shine Dome 15 Gordon St Acton Canberra 1959 37 Forrest Townhouses 3 Tasmania Circle Forrest 1959 38 Vasey Crescent Houses 42 44 and 46 Vasey Crescent Campbell 1960 39 McNicoll House 19 Gordon Grove South Yarra 1962 3 40 Roy Grounds amp Co Pty Ltd CSIRO Phytotron Building Clunies Ross Street Acton 1963 41 Botany Building D A Brown Building Australian National University Acton Campus Canberra 1968 National Gallery of Victoria 200 St Kilda Road Melbourne 1959 68 42 National Gallery Art School and West Garden for outdoor sculptures Nolan Street Melbourne 1968 69 Medley Building Melbourne University 1968 71 Frankel House 4 Cobby Street Campbell 1969 70 43 Robert Blackwood Hall Monash University Victoria 1968 1971 44 Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement amp Folk Museum expansion Swan Hill Victoria early 1970s Nicholas families homes 22 Hill Street Toorak Melbourne c1970 much altered Wrest Point Hotel Casino Hobart Tasmania 1973 Arts Centre Melbourne 100 St Kilda Road Melbourne 1969 84 45 Gallery of works edit nbsp Milky Way cafe nbsp Shine Dome Australian Academy of Science nbsp National Gallery of Victoria nbsp Wrest Point Hotel Casino Hobart TasmaniaReferences edit a b Sir Roy Burman Grounds 1905 1981 Grounds Sir Roy Burman 1905 1981 National Centre of Biography Australian National University a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a website ignored help Institute of Architects Exhibition Argus Melbourne Vic 1848 1957 1 May 1928 p 8 Retrieved 1 December 2019 ARCHITECT S SCHOLARSHIP Age Melbourne Vic 1854 1954 16 March 1928 p 7 Retrieved 6 December 2019 Architectural school Age Melbourne Vic 1854 1954 25 July 1928 p 14 Retrieved 1 December 2019 a b c Goad P and Willis J 2012 The Encyclopaedia of Australian Architecture p 452 453 Cambridge University Press Victoria Australia ISBN 978 0 521 88857 8 a b c Marr Grounds Art Gallery of NSW 25 March 2021 Retrieved 31 January 2023 a b c Grounds Marr 30 March 2015 Interview with Marr Grounds PDF Interview Art Gallery of New South Wales Archive Balnaves Foundation Australian Sculpture Archive Project Interviewed by Edwards Deborah Balnaves Foundation Art Gallery of NSW Archived from the original transcript on 31 January 2023 Retrieved 31 January 2023 This is an edited transcript of a recorded interview Sunshine Home at Upper Beaconsfield Trove 24 May 1933 Retrieved 2 December 2019 THE MILKY WAY Argus Melbourne Vic 1848 1957 14 February 1934 p 5 Retrieved 6 December 2019 Goade P 1999 Melbourne Architecture Watermark Press p 1940 ISBN 9780949284365 Retrieved 8 October 2021 Moonbria Flats Mathoura Road Toorak 1939 1941 Roy Grounds GC northfacing access balconies with balustrades topped with Swedish blue tiles are Stephens J 11 September 2014 Moonbria c 2018 ASSEMBLE COMMUNITIES PTY LTD Retrieved 26 May 2021 Rod Kinnear s recollections of televised dedication ceremony quoted in McColl Jones Mike 1999 And Now Here s Aerospace Publications Canberra p 177 It s an Honour Roy Grounds c 2021 Architecture Media 2021 Retrieved 16 October 2021 Museum of Old amp New Art MONA ArchitectureAU Retrieved 8 August 2019 Ormond College vhd heritagecouncil vic gov au Retrieved 8 August 2019 House at 236 Kooyong Road Toorak 1936 State Library Victoria Retrieved 23 December 2019 UNIQUE FLATS AT BRIGHTON Herald Melbourne Vic 1861 1954 3 March 1937 p 18 Retrieved 1 December 2019 Measured Drawing 493 Kooyong Road Elsternwick State Library Victoria Retrieved 16 June 2020 The Ship Victorian Heritage Database House at 12 Gould Street Frankston 1935 State Library Victoria Retrieved 23 December 2019 Lyncroft Victorian Heritage Database House at 8 Reid Street Balwyn 1935 State Library Victoria Retrieved 23 December 2019 Ramsay House Victorian Heritage Database Harmony in the Modern Manner The Modern Store September 1937 pp 10 11 Edquist H 2000 Frederick Romberg The Architecture of Migration 1938 1975 RMIT University Press p 19 ISBN 9780864590800 Retrieved 15 October 2021 while a little later in 1939 1941 Roy Grounds designed Clendon and Clendon Corner in Armadale Moonbria in Mathoura Road Toorak and Quamby in Edquist H 2000 Frederick Romberg The Architecture of Migration 1938 1975 RMIT University Press p 19 ISBN 9780864590800 Retrieved 15 October 2021 while a little later in 1939 1941 Roy Grounds designed Clendon and Clendon Corner in Armadale Moonbria in Mathoura Road Toorak and Quamby in Moonbria Sir Roy Grounds Weebly Retrieved 15 October 2021 Roy Grounds had a select group of forward thinking well heeled avant garde clients and in 1939 one of them asked him to build something good on a vacant bit of land they owned at 68 Mathoura Road in Toorak The brief was simple It had to Edquist H 2000 Frederick Romberg The Architecture of Migration 1938 1975 RMIT University Press p 19 ISBN 9780864590800 Retrieved 15 October 2021 while a little later in 1939 1941 Roy Grounds designed Clendon and Clendon Corner in Armadale Moonbria in Mathoura Road Toorak and Quamby in Quamby Victorian Heritage Database Edquist H 2000 Frederick Romberg The Architecture of Migration 1938 1975 RMIT University Press p 19 ISBN 9780864590800 Retrieved 15 October 2021 while a little later in 1939 1941 Roy Grounds designed Clendon and Clendon Corner in Armadale Moonbria in Mathoura Road Toorak and Quamby in Grounds House Victorian Heritage Database Round House Victorian Heritage Database Currawong Ski Lodge Mirrabooka Vermont The Story of a Community Retrieved 9 February 2021 a 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