Queenslanders

Chinatown Mall redevelopment plan, 2008

Chinatown Mall

Wickham Street

Fortitude Valley, QLD

Australia

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1 January 2008

Location

Chinatown Mall

Wickham Street

Fortitude Valley, QLD

Australia

See map: Google Maps

Brisbane

Brisbane City Council

Chinatown Mall redevelopment master plan, released by the Brisbane City Council in 2008. The design was developed with assistance of architects from Brisbane's sister city, Shenzhen, China in consultation with local designers Urbis. Originally opened in 1987, the redesigned mall opened in February 2010.

Brisbane City Council, 2008

Chinatowns

A notable feature of the early Chinese settlement in Queensland, as in other places where overseas Chinese societies developed, was a communal pattern of settlement.

Pamphlet 'Holiday wear in Queensland's climate' for tourists issued by the Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, 1977. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Queensland clothing

Clothing worn in Queensland has been, and remains rich with inconsistencies.

Palma Rosa, Hamilton, 1974, designed and built by Italian architect Andrea Stombuco in 1887 who also designed All Hallows Convent School and Petrie Mansions in Petrie Terrace. Slide by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Italians taking stools of cane to an agricultural show in north Queensland, photograph from Queensland Agricultural Journal, 1932. Collection of Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Monument to the pioneers of the sugar industry made of Italian marble. The monument was donated in 1959 by the Italian community of Innisfail, 1980. Postcard by Murray Views Pty Ltd, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland