COLOURS IN CONCRETE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 August 1926, Page 2

COLOURS IN CONCRETE.

‘‘BRIGHTER HOUSING” EIXPEIRIMENT.

Houses of tile-red, apple green, pale yellow and burnt sienna form a .new and viva feature, of the landscape at a London County Council’s housing estate. They are part of the •‘brighter housing” experiment recently announced: by the architect to the London County Council. The group of 30 dwellings gives the impression of a mi nature suburb, contrasting with the neighbouring brick and. concrete sections of the. estate. Other houses, nearly ready for habitation, receiving their final coating of coloured concrete stucco, and .additional variety is given with biege, white, flint brown, and French grey. Yellow and green walls predominate so- far, and form, an attractive contrast with the. tiled roofs. The colour effects .are obtained by giving a stucco coat to concrete walls on the shutter principle. A new type, of skilled artisan, is being evolved by the special requirements of coloured concrete. The tints are obtained by mixing; colouring matter with sand and Portland cement, and the colours are blended and worked up on a large mixing -board in much the same way as an artist works up his tints on a. palette.