CUBIST SUBURBS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 259, 2 November 1933, Page 13

CUBIST SUBURBS.

I have been expecting it fov a long time. Now it lias arrived,, states a London correspondent. Cnbist domestic architecture has come to London, and is even now invading our most respectable suburbs. Estates at Wembley and Hendon are being developed for residential purposes on the most up-to-date Continental lines, and cubist villas are arising that vie with anything the bemused traveller can see in Germany or Holland. Plain brick walls, flat asphalted roofs, with parapet roof gardens, windows that tdke up the whole space of a room, and a decoration of cream-coloured cement, make up the picture. Each flat has, by its -system of steps, its own roof garden, and the whole effect is decidedly exotic and unLondony. But I am told that the flats are really comfortable and convenient, and one has always to be thankful we have not yet started Bolshevik glass homes in our London suburbs. That would be the last straw on the reticent surburban camel's back.-