Comfort in Australia’s Unproductive North and the Attendant Anxiety of Tropical Cyclones

In 1922, the Commonwealth Bank opened in Cairns, North Queensland, on the corner of Abbott and Spence Street, not far from the Esplanade and the waters of the Trinity Inlet. A single-story timber building, “bolted together” and pinned to the ground by sunken concrete piers, the structure was describ...

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Main Author:	Plaat, Deborah van der
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	InVisu 2021
Subjects:	architecture tropicale cyclones histoire de l’environnement Commonwealth Bank tropical architecture environmental history arquitectura tropical ciclones historia ambiental architettura tropicale cicloni storia dell’ambiente Zyklone Umweltgeschichte Tropische Architektur
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.9243 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/8iqd https://journals.openedition.org/abe/9243
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