Robert Marsden Hope Building

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Robert Marsden Hope Building
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Canberra Patent Office, 1945
Robert Marsden Hope Building
Former names
  • Patent Office Building (1940-1971)
  • Robert Garran Offices (1983-2009)
Etymology Robert Marsden Hope
General information
StatusCompleted
Type Office
Architectural style Art Deco
Address2 National Circuit, Barton , Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
CountryAustralia
Coordinates 35°18′20″S149°07′53″E / 35.3056231°S 149.1312991°E / -35.3056231; 149.1312991
Current tenants Office of National Intelligence
Groundbreaking18 March 1939
Construction started1 August 1939
Completed12 August 1940
Opened7 September 1940;84 years ago (1940-09-07)
Renovated2013
Cost £116,900
Renovation costA$37 million (2011)
Client Department of the Interior
Owner Australian Government
Technical details
MaterialConcrete, sandstone cladding, marble, steel, and timber
Floor count2-3
Design and construction
Architecture firmCuthbert Claude Mortier Whitley
Main contractor Concrete Constructions
Renovating team
Architect(s)Fender Katsilidis
Renovating firmISPT
Awards and prizesACT Property Council of Australia / Rider Levett Bucknall Development of the Year (2013)
Official namePatent Office (former), Kings Av, Barton, ACT, Australia
TypeListed place
Criteria A., D., E., F.
Designated22 June 2004
Reference no.105454
References
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

The Robert Marsden Hope Building (formerly the Patent Office Building and also formerly part of the Robert Garran Offices) is a heritage listed [12] government building and the headquarters of the Office of National Intelligence, located on the edge of the Parliamentary Triangle, Canberra, Australia.

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Overview

Constructed in 1939, [13] [14] it was built to house the patent office following its move from Melbourne in 1934. [15] Prior to its completion, the patent office operated out of Hotel Acton. [16] Like other government buildings constructed in Canberra around that period, [17] it was designed in the Art Deco architectural style. [18]

In addition to the patent office, occupying the building was the ACT Supreme Court, [19] [20] [21] and the Commonwealth Security Services (CSS), [22] [23] : p. 23  [24] a predecessor of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. Following their disbandment in December 1945, the CSS moved out [25] [23] : p. 37  [26] with the Supreme Court following suit in 1963, [27] [28] leaving the Patent Office the sole occupant until they too moved in 1975. [29] Replacing them was the Commonwealth Public Service Board, who occupied the building until 1983 when the building was merged into a larger complex housing the Attorney-General's Department. [30] At that time, the building was renamed as part of the Robert Garran Offices.

Following major refurbishment, the building was renamed the Robert Marsden Hope Building on 5 December 2011, in honour of Robert Marsden Hope, a former Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal and three-time Royal Commissioner. [31] [32] The Office of National Intelligence has occupied the building since its refurbishment and renaming in 2011. [33]

References

  1. ↑ "Patent Office (former), Kings Av, Barton, ACT, Australia (Place ID 105454)". Australian Heritage Database . Australian Government. 22 June 2004. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  2. ↑ "£180,000 Building". The Age . 1 August 1939. p. 6. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  3. ↑ "Canberra Patents Office". The West Australian . 11 March 1939. p. 18. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  4. ↑ "Building Progress At Canberra". Daily Telegraph . 18 March 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  5. ↑ "Patent Office in New Quarters". Canberra Times . 10 September 1940. p. 4. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  6. ↑ "Department Transfer To Canberra". Canberra Times. 12 August 1940. p. 2. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  7. ↑ "Round The Compass". Canberra Times. 9 August 1940. p. 4. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  8. ↑ "The Patent Office, Canberra, A.C.T." Construction. 12 February 1941. p. 14. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  9. ↑ Pegrum, Roger (2002). "Cuthbert Claude Mortier Whitley (1886–1942)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Vol. 16. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN   978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN   1833-7538. OCLC   70677943 . Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  10. ↑ "Patents Office At Canberra". Construction (Sydney, NSW : 1938 - 1954). 15 March 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  11. ↑ "RM Hope Building wins ACT's highest property accolade". ISPT Super Property. 2 August 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  12. ↑ "Australian Heritage Database". www.environment.gov.au. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  13. ↑ "Patents Office". Canberra Times. 18 February 1939. p. 4. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  14. ↑ "Patents Office". Canberra Times. 11 January 1939. p. 4. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  15. ↑ "Canberra Times". 4 January 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  16. ↑ "Canberra Patents Office". The West Australian. 11 March 1939. p. 18. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  17. ↑ "History of our buildings | National Library of Australia". www.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  18. ↑ "Canberra house | Inter-war art deco architecture". www.canberrahouse.com.au. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  19. ↑ ACT Supreme Court (2019). "ACT Supreme Court Annual Review 2018-19" (PDF). ACT Courts. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  20. ↑ "First case, 50 years ago, a 'domestic'". Canberra Times. 12 February 1984. p. 7. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  21. ↑ "Supreme Court". Canberra Times. 8 February 1934. p. 2. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  22. ↑ "Ceremonial Sitting On Commencement Of The 2019 Legal Year" (PDF). ACT Courts. 29 January 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  23. 1 2 Horner, D. M. (David Murray) (April 2016). The spy catchers. Volume I : the official history of ASIO, 1949-1963. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin. ISBN   978-1-76029-042-9. OCLC   927460877.
  24. ↑ Letter, Forde to W. MacKay, 9 April 1942, National Archives of Australia: AA1981/132, 1
  25. ↑ markp (22 June 2017). "The establishment of ASIO". establishment-asio.html. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  26. ↑ Alien migration - Jews from central Europe - Central European Migrants (Stateless German Refugee Jews): 1933-1946. Commonwealth of Australia - Attorney General's Department: Investigation Branch. 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020– via National Archives of Australia.
  27. ↑ "Law Courts Open Today". Canberra Times. 8 May 1963. p. 1. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  28. ↑ "The First 100,000". Canberra Times. 10 March 1967. p. 33. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  29. ↑ "Patents to transfer in 'trade-off'". Canberra Times. 17 June 1975. p. 1. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  30. ↑ "Attorney-General's staff moving". Canberra Times. 22 May 1983. p. 3. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  31. ↑ "ParlInfo - Speech at the opening of the Robert Marsden Hope building, ONA, Canberra". parlinfo.aph.gov.au. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  32. ↑ "New lease of life for a Canberra landmark". Canberra Times. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  33. ↑ "Office of National Intelligence". directory.gov.au. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

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