Sir Roy Burman Grounds was an Australian architect.
13 Facts About Roy Grounds
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One of their first projects that is attributed to Roy 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.
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Roy Grounds designed in a more Streamline Moderne style, with his own family holiday house on the peninsula 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.
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Roy Grounds opened a Canberra office in the Forrest Townhouses, which he designed and partly financed.
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In 1959 the firm was awarded the commission to design the National Gallery of Victoria and Arts Centre, with Roy Grounds named in the contract as the architect in charge.
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When Boyd and Romberg were mildly critical of the preliminary geometric designs that Roy Grounds showed them, relations between the partners became strained, and in 1962 Roy Grounds left the partnership, taking the commission with him and setting up his own company with Oscar Bayne.
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Under a building committee chaired by the philanthropist Ken Myer, Roy Grounds devoted the next twenty years of his life to the completion of the Arts Centre.
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Roy Grounds's longest-serving architectural associates throughout this period were Alan Nelson, Fritz Suendermann, Lou Gerhardt and Allan Stillman.
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Roy Grounds showed Queen Elizabeth II the massive excavations shortly before his death.
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Roy Grounds married Regina Marr, an American divorcee.
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Roy Grounds created a scandal when he left his wife for the wife of Tom Ramsay, Alice Bettine Ramsay.
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The Roy Grounds family lived in the affluent suburb of Toorak at the time.
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Roy Grounds was known for his sculpture, and for co-founding the art workshop Tin Sheds at Sydney University with Donald Brook.