Bruce Dellit

Charles Bruce Dellit (7 November 1898 – 21 August 1942) was an Australian architect who pioneered the Art Deco style in Australia. He was generally known as Bruce Dellit.

He is known for having designed the Anzac War Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney.

Early life and education Dellit was born on 7 November 1898 in Darlington, Sydney Australia. He was the son of Albert Dellit, a furniture manufacturer and Agnes Gertrude Mack. His full siblings were Albert Cormack, Leo Harold and Ena May. As a child, he attended Christian Brothers' College, Waverley.

After leaving school, Dellit gained employment with the architect John L. Berry and at 16 he enrolled at the Sydney Technical College. From 1919, Dellit studied architecture under Professor Leslie Wilkinson at the University of Sydney for one day a week. He introduced the new fashion for Art Deco (more familiar for entertainment buildings) devoid of any classical details and adding a stepped roof. The building, notable for its strong vertical lines and dominating ground floor arch, is considered among the earliest examples of Sydney commercial architecture embracing the Inter-War Art Deco style. The building, which is now used as a bar, contains the work of Rayner Hoff and is considered among the best examples of Art Deco "funerary spaces" in Sydney. in art nouveau style, its foyer featured bas-relief panels by Rayner Hoff, as well as a bust of William Charles Wentworth. It was rebuilt in the 1970s as the three-screen Greater Union Pitt Centre.

Anzac Memorial

Dellit's Anzac Memorial, within Hyde Park, Sydney, is considered to be the "epitome" of pairing of the symmetrical classicism of the Moderne style architecture with Art Deco, decorative embellishments.