GIFTED ARCHITECT.
NEW ZEALANDER IN ENGLAND. LONDON, October 12. A young architect, Mr. Uhren, of Wellington, New Zealand, who worked his passage to England as a stoker on a cargo ship in 19.31, won a competition for a design for a new Town Hall in Hornsey to cost £200,000. There were 280 competitors. Mr. Uhren previously won a competition for an exhibition hall in Manchester.
Mr. Uhren lived in Petone before he left New Zealand, and was on the staff of a firm of Wellington architects, Messrs. Natusch and Sons. While he was with that firm he sent examples of his work to the School of Architects in Auckland, and they were held up as a model to students at that school. He assisted his firm, in 1929, to win a competition for the best design for the lay-out of the foreshore of Petone.
Mr. Uhren qualified for an A.N.Z.I.A. certificate, and proceeded to England in 1031. He was awaiting election as an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects when he won the competition for the best design for the exhibition hall in Manchester, organised by the promoters of the Manchester Building Trades Exhibition. He tras successful against 93 competitors in that He is 27 years of afe.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 242, 13 October 1933, Page 7
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