The Griffin plan wins the Canberra competition
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Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin won the international competition for the design of Australia's new federal capital. The layout — geometric axes tied to the surrounding hills, with a central artificial lake — was implemented slowly and repeatedly amended across the following century, which is the main reason it survived.
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