“PROUD OF THE ARCHITECT”

Evening Star, Issue 22574, 16 February 1937, Page 2

“PROUD OF THE ARCHITECT”

HEW ZEALANDER'S SUCCESS TRIBUTE FROM LONDON Further reports from London increase the merit of success achieved by the young New Zealand architect, Mr R. H. Uren, who won the gold’medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects for his design and plans of the Hornsey Town Hall. When the medal was presented to Mr Uren the Mayor of Hornsey made a very complimentary statement. “ The building has now been in use for about 12 months, and generally speaking it has given entire satisfaction to all concerned,” he said. “ Naturally slight alterations have been made, but these have been few, and only and necessarily occasioned by the public use which has been made of it. You architects must know that when the public come into a new building such as ours criticism is always thrown about like handfuls of stones; everything is said to be wrong. We. the members of the Town Council, have listened to a certain amount of comment of that kind, and we realised that there were a few

small alterations which might he made. However ,ood an architect a man may be, it is only human nature that he cannot foresee all that is necessary, and, therefore, as your own experience will tell you, there are these little alterations which have to he effected, but in this case they have been so small as to be practically negligible. “ When we compare our building with others of the same character we have

every reason to bo satisfied. In the course of my duties I have had to visit many other municipal buildings, and it lias been my experience—and I am sure you will agree with me—that Hornsey has nothing to envy. We are perfectly satisfied with the results we have secured. I can quite understand that architects to-day have very many