Who won the international competition to design Canberra?

The American architect Walter Burley Griffin won the international competition to design Canberra, the new federal capital of Australia, in 1912.12

The competition was launched by the Commonwealth of Australia in 1911 to determine the layout of the city. Griffin, who had previously worked in the studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, incorporated principles of the garden city movement into his design, which featured a geometric plan centered on an ornamental lake and a parliamentary triangle.231