CLASSROOMS OF ALUMINIUM

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26599, 8 December 1951, Page 6

CLASSROOMS OF ALUMINIUM

NEW BLOCK AT WEST SPREYDON The experimental prefabricated aluminium classroom block which w be erected at the West Spreydon School next week is not of the type which aroused considerable criticise at the Auckland Education Boart’ meeting this week. The Auckland board'* architect W A. B. Miller) said that an alumfohfl building (put up by another compW at the Mount Albert Grammar School was erected back-to-front with a candor excluding sunlight, that it. four times as much as prefabricate wooden buildings alongside, and tw the erection time was little differentMr Miller said he did not want to disparage the aluminium classrooms which were' a wonderful precision M especially in the windows and truss* It was a pity they were so costly. The Bristol Aeroplane Company (Housing, Ltd.), is providing the ng block for the Canterbury Educaj® Board. Its chief architectural draugnw man (Mr C. H. L. Thomas) said yg terday that he did not think would be any complaints about undertaking. The cost must be compared with an equally durable WOO |J building and maintenance char fj S s considered. The building would na . full sunlight. Full details were pn niea in “The Press” a month ago. Mr Thomas said that, given weather, unskilled labour would erg the 60ft by 24ft building with classrooms in a week.