Background
George Rae was born on 8 March 1901 in at 20 Avon Street, Glasgow, Scotland, son of Alexander Don Renwick Rae and his wife Agnes McLean McPherson.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
George Rae
Edit Profile
Career
He designed some of Brisbane"s best interwar apartment buildings. From 1927 to 1931, George Rae worked for Atkinson, Powell and Conrad. In his early thirties and one of Brisbane"s most successful young architects, Rae had established his own architectural practice in Brisbane in 1933.
Rae designed a variety of buildings, including new forms of architectural construction to Brisbane such as picture theatres and residential flats.
His more substantial purpose-designed flat buildings are amongst the most important of their type and their period in Brisbane. This Wikipedia article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under Central Committee-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014).
