Frank Fox b.

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Frank Fox was an architect (perhaps not registered?), industrial designer and interior designer who initially was successful as the designer of late 1940s and early 1950s shops and restaurants, but became best known as the entrepreneur who created Old Sydney Town, a tourist attraction which recreated the buildings and cultural life of the waterfront convict settlement of Sydney's The Rocks district.
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Frank Fox was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, and was apprenticed to architectural firms in Melbourne and Sydney. He also studied through the International Correspondence School (ICS), then moved to London in 1939 for further study. After the Second World War, in 1946, he set up his own practice in Sydney, Frank Fox and Associates, specialising in shop and hospitality fitouts. Some of his early projects included Oxford Square, Central Square, the Crest Hotel and the Granville RSL Club. He also worked in Queensland, Victoria.

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Obituary: 'The architect founder of Old Sydney Town’, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 May 1981.

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2012
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2016

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