ARCHITECT’S SUCCESS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 16, 13 October 1933, Page 9

ARCHITECT’S SUCCESS

English Competition Won by New Zealander

£200,000 BUILDING

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received October 12, 7 p.m.)

London, October 12.

The young New Zealand architect, Mr. Reginald H. Uhren, who worked his passage to England as a stoker in a cargo ship in 1931, won the competition for a design for a new town hall at Hornsey, to cost £200.000. There were 280 competitors. Mr. Uhren previously won a competition for an exhibition hall at Manchester.

Mr. Uhren lived at Petone. and before leaving New Zealand was on the staff of Messrs. Natusch and Sons, architects, of Wellington, from about 1927. While with Messrs. Natusch, Mr. Uhren sent examples of his work to the School of Architects at Auckland, and they were held up as a model to the students at the school. He assisted his firm in 1929 to win the competition for the best design for the lay-out of the foreshore at Petone. qualified for his A.N.Z.I.A. certificate, and proceeded to England in 1931. and was awaiting election as an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects when he won the competition for the best design for the exhibition hall at Manchester. organised by the promoters of the Manchester Building Trades Exhibition. The New Zealander was successful against 93 competitors in this contest. Mr. Uhren is now 27 years of age.