Francis Oswell

Frank Oswell died in Brisbane on 19 August 2003. He married Glenda in 1945. They had three children, Simon, Christopher, and Margaret.

He moved his firm out of the centre of Brisbane city and into nearby Spring Hill where a number of other architects had moved their business. He later joined Basil Veal to form a new partnership in 1965. In 1973, Oswell and Veal joined with Trude and Webster to become Trude, Webster, Oswell and Veal Pty Ltd but this partnership ceased in 1974. Oswell returned to Oswell and Associates and retired in 1978.

Ladhope Chambers, Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, Brisbane (1964)

Garfield Towers, Garfield Terrace, Gold Coast (1964)

Glencrag Apartments, Leichardt Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane (1960–62)

He was supervisor of the Royal Australian Institute for Architects Convention held in Brisbane in 1952

The rise in wool prices in the early 1950s also saw Oswell being contracted to provide designs for sheep stations, as farmers benefitted from the booming economy. His firm was in near constant employment through the 1950s, and utilised their preferred builders to achieve project completion.

Francis Bruce Oswell (1920-2003) was an Australian architect from Queensland, one of the first to design high rise apartment buildings in Brisbane.

Francis Bruce Oswell was born on 11 January 1920 in Malvern, Victoria. He studied engineering at the University of Melbourne part time beginning in 1939 before enlisting in the Army and RAAF during WW2. He studied his Diploma in Architecture from the Central Technical College in Brisbane and later at the University of Queensland, graduating in 1952 with his Graduate Diploma in Architecture. He had worked as a draughtsman for Bligh Jessup in 1949. His firm F.B. Oswell and Associates found steady work as a result of the post war boom for housing, employing a number of architectural students.