Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 1 : Presscuttings, 1959-1962

E MAY NNED CARS route plan By our City Hall Reporter traffic will be banned in the ex - George Square under City Council early doubling the square's size. s that the King George Square Albert Street would be closed to had decided to recommend' The council: has bought _Ithat Planet Promotions In- Ithe building for the erne corporated be given a 12 -square extension proposal 'month lease of section eft will have to be the Centennial Building for molished for the Reserve use as a dance hall. Bank building. ;Want a city art gallery QUEENSLAND'S new Art Gallery should be in the inner city, "where people, including young people in their lunch hour," con have ready access, the Gallery Trustees' chairman (Sir Roslyn Philp) said last night. After a meeting of -' - - Trustees, Sir Roslyn sald: "We are deter - ,mined to press ahead 'with the move for a new Gallery." ' He said the Trustees .would "try to arrange some definite project." He named three inner - ay sites which, he said he Trustees were consider- mg.- Opposite the City Hall hi a widened King George Square. The Main Roads Depart- ment building site in Albert Street. rile Supreme Court site. He said he would head Trustees' sub -committee itch would seek an inter- , Jew with the Education Minister (Mr. Pizzey to' (.1arify the Government's lttitude toward a new taller . "Has merit" Pizzey last week in-! iirated that schools would 01 higher priority I him R oW sit gallery. Sir Roslyn said I he ustees considered t he .ore for a "Centenary aural Centre" near the Id Government House, :d the Botanic Garden,. considerable merit, "But it Is s long way Li of the city, and we he- 'cr the Brisbane Town an involves building Idge across the elver ar this site." he added. He said the Trustees had qi decided to ask the .ird Mayor (Alderman lem Jones. for details on Est And site area at the Ana George Square Inca - Alderman Jones had iggesteri. BE THIF COURIER -IMAM THURSDAY SEPT 6 1942 3 PLAN FOR THE SQUARE... PROPOSED EXTENDED SQUARE HIBERNIAN BUILDING NEW BOUNDARIES of the proposed enlarged King George Square ore indicated by the heavy dotted line in this aerial picture. Build- ings which will hove to be resumed to complete the scheme also ore shown. Above the site of the new Commonwealth Reserve Bank is a narrow, elongated building site which the Lord Movor (Alderman Clem Jones) hos suggested might be used for a new art gallery. S BEET: PLANNED RESERVE BANK BUILDING rt