DESIGNING OF HOSPITAL

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28836, 5 March 1959, Page 17

DESIGNING OF HOSPITAL

Awards Announced In Competition

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 4. The winning entry in the architectural competition for a new St Helens Hospital at Auckland was announced by the Minister of Health (Mr Mason) this morning. The award was made to Messrs Newman, Smith, and Associates, of Auckland. The entries placed next were those of Messrs Gabites and Beards (Wellington), Messrs Thorpe, Cutter, Pictanere, and Douglas (Auckland), and Messrs M. K. and R. Fu Draffin (Auckland) in that order. Sixty-one entries, representative of the work of New Zealand and overseas architects, were received in the competition. The Minister said that the competition was a great event for New Zealand architects. It was initiated under the inspiration of the late Government Architect (Mr F. Gordon Wilson) with the view of bringing to light the talent and capacity of New. Zealand architects, especially those of the younger generation, in this important field of hospital building. “It has done this triumphantly, and I and all associated with the initiation and judging of the competition regret that Mr Wilson’s unexpected death deprived him of seeing how successful his purpose has been,” said ’Mr Mason. “Very few of the 61 entries from architects all over New Zealand, as well as some from overseas, were not of such high merit as to call for serious consideration by the assessors for a place in the list of awards,” he added.