TWENTY BIG BUILDINGS

Evening Star, Issue 21638, 6 February 1934, Page 2

TWENTY BIG BUILDINGS

A SOUTH AFRICAN BOOM CITY At least twenty new buildings of the sky-scraper class are about to be taken in hand in Johannesburg (says a South African paper). Indications are that 1934 will witness the biggest building boon, which even this city of sensational growth has ever known. The list of proposed buildings is by no means complete yet, and will probably ho doubled in the course or the next few months. One ol the best-known landmarks singled out for demolition is the “ Old Church ” in Plein street, where a tonstory block will shortly go up. Almost opposite, another ten-story structure. Croydon Mansions, is planned. Niue stories or more are specified for the site at the corner of President and Small streets. A well-known firm of musical instrument and radio merchants intends to put up a particularly large block, probably of nine stores. Here it is proposed to have flats upstairs and highclass shops downstairs, and the entire skyline of this section of the city will he changed. Three lofty blocks of Hats are going up in the vicinity of Trove and Bree streets. Most of the blocks are for flats. One of the host-known pioneer structures of Johannesburg will disappear in a few months, when the Trocadero Restaurant block is demolished. Plans for a skyscraper of nine or ton storys are already being prepared.