Canberra Glass Works - Art Studio & Surrounding Precincts

Canberra Glass Works is a Gallery and Glass Art Studio and the only one of its kind in Australia. It is housed in the oldest Public building in Canberra. It was built in 1913 – 15 and was then known as Kingston Power House, intended to generate electricity for the region using coal. You can see the remnants of the rail line in front of the building where coal was brought to the door steps of the old powerhouse. The old brickchimney is replaced by a decorative Glass tower reminiscing a chimney and glows blue in the evening. Thus, this heritage building stopped producing power in 1929. Sporadically it used to inbetween, but stopped completely by 1956. It was renovated into an Art Studio and Gallery in 2007. You can see artists creating their work in their designated tables in the hot room. There is a cold room, where you can find glass tiles , beads and multiple glass components being fused together using molten glass to make unique art pieces. This is part of Kingston Foreshore . Apart from the Glass Studio you find in its precints cafes and restaurants by the side of a canal, piercing into the Foreshore from Lake Griffin. You can indulge in the delicacies and go for long walks, where the lake is frequented by the large black swans. There is An eatery joining the Glass work building called Brodburger, which is one of the best Burger restaurant you can find anywhere in Australia. For a traveler, you can reach here on a Sunday morning when the Old Bus Market Dep will be opened. After the visit to the Glass Stusio, you can have a brunch from this joint. It is quite filling, flaming fresh, juicy and just delicious. In front of the Glass Works Precinct, you find a charming Greek Orthodox Church, St. Nicholas and across the road a wooded park by the name Telopea along with the park adjoining the Lake Griffin shorefront. You have all the elements of a memorable fun filled hiking, picnic and a cultural tour and these immediate precincts are cherries on top of this historic heritage building visit

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