A DRAWING OF THE CANTERBURY BREVET CLUB’S MEMORIAL HEADQUARTERS and community centre to be built at the intersection of Memorial avenue and Russley road. Tenders for the project, estimated to cost about £16,000, are now being called. The unusual hall will be a diamond-shaped structure, 75ft by 90ft, roofed with a hyperbolic parabola in laminated wood and supported on concrete buttresses. The glass sides will sweep up 18ft at the ends. The block at back will contain committee and supper rooms. It will be linked to the hall and a proposed aeronautical museum (extreme left) by a glazed-in bridge crossing the edge of a small lake. Facing Memorial avenue, in front of an Oamaru stone wall, will be an lift statue of an airman. The architect is Mr W. Lovell-Smith.

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29146, 5 March 1960, Page 15

A DRAWING OF THE CANTERBURY BREVET CLUB’S MEMORIAL HEADQUARTERS and community centre to be built at the intersection of Memorial avenue and Russley road. Tenders for the project, estimated to cost about £16,000, are now being called. The unusual hall will be a diamond-shaped structure, 75ft by 90ft, roofed with a hyperbolic parabola in laminated wood and supported on concrete buttresses. The glass sides will sweep up 18ft at the ends. The block at back will contain committee and supper rooms. It will be linked to the hall and a proposed aeronautical museum (extreme left) by a glazed-in bridge crossing the edge of a small lake. Facing Memorial avenue, in front of an Oamaru stone wall, will be an lift statue of an airman. The architect is Mr W. Lovell-Smith.