BUILDING FASHIONS
“Earthquake-Proof” Influence Reference to changes in building practice was made by Mr. J. L. Glchard in a speech on Thursday to the Now Zealand Association of Refrigeration in Wellington. Ho said there was a body of feeling against the straight line and plain front of modern buildings on the ground that the appearance was too severe, and it might be that there would be a swing to other forms of exterior design. The plain front was one development of earthquake-resisting construction, the desire being to eliminate overhangs. Considerable progress had been made in construction for earthquakes, but it could not be said that buildings were earthquake-proof, because no one knew the possible force of a future earthquake. Buildings were now being constructed to resist earthquakes, however, so that a structure would not simply tumble down in a shake, with loss Of life, though it. might be damaged so that it would have to be reconstructed.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 256, 25 July 1936, Page 24
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