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Russell Cafeteria, Kelliher Dr, Russell, ACT, Australia

Photographs: None
List: Register of the National Estate
Class: Historic
Legal Status: Interim List (20/05/2003)
Place ID: 102807
Place File No: 8/01/000/0534
Nominator's Statement of Significance:
The Russell Offices Canteen, the Lobby Restaurant and the West Portal Cafeteria have potential significance for their design relating to the time when they were constructed, the purpose of the buildings, their use of high quality materials and the creative architectural expression of the structures.
Official Values: Not Available
Description:
The Russell Offices Canteen is designed on a square plan constructed around an exposed rolled steel joist frame and diagonal roof supports. The glazed walls on the front and two side faces are full height floor to ceiling and regularly patterned. The building style has clearly expressed horizontal planes of the wide external building platform, extensive eaves, and a clerestory window. A small central spire provides an identifying feature. The building has high quality finishes with its roofing, fascia and spire clad in copper.

The Russell Canteen has been included in the RNE record for the Russell Precinct.
History: Not Available
Condition and Integrity:
Good.
Location:
Kelliher Drive, Russell.
Bibliography: Not Available

Report Produced: Tue Feb 9 16:03:28 2010