STUDENTS' WORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 6

STUDENTS' WORK.

BUILDING DESIGNS. ANNUAL EXHIBITION OPENS. SCHOOL OP ARCHITECTURE. Carp fill nttcnf inn to work, and a high standard of efficiency, is evidenced in the display at tliis year's pxliibition of tlip School nf Architcetiire at the Auckland University College. which was opened yps! crday aftprnnnii by tlie <-1111«■ Lii■ pi i .-id' iil. Mr. \Y. 11. Cocker. 'I'lip e\hi hi tii hi will lie npi'ii In Ihp j>ill> li. * <l-i ilv until t In* pud of Iho week, includes live theses, which final year students present fur 1 heir decree*. One is ;| iiiiiilcl nf thp lay-out of the New Zealand Centennial F..x hihition. '['he central feature of tlip design. l»v •I. Hanghev. is a circular-domed building intended to contain a lamp relief map of New /paland surrounded by water. There arp ingenious electrical devices to illustrato the advance of settlement, and mean* of cominunieatinn. The drawing for the thesis have been wilt to the Royal Institufp of British Architects, in London, as an example of the school's work. Another student. M. -T. Oufred. has replauned Ihe inner business area of Xew I'lvmoiilh willi a civic cent re. and a plan t.i give better access to and from the railway station on the sea-front. A large country mental hospital on the villa system has been designed by .T. F. Mair. A railway station for Christ church has been planned by ('. (.'. (!. W ebl). while the subject chosen bv Mis«; M. D. Kd wards is a modern t überctilosis ho<4pilal with a hi;r frontage to the sun. The Auckland brick manufacturers' prize this year is for the design of a hiiu-e mi a site sloping to the spa. The first year exhibits include study of all the principal architectural styles, ami the theory and practical use of colour, which is becoming increasingly important, for interior decoration and for external design.