FREE LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY DESIGNS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6937, 11 February 1884, Page 6

FREE LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY DESIGNS.

TO THE. EDITOR. Siß,r~l bad the pleasure .of inspecting the, numerous designs sent, imfor the above* and, ■thought , .them as ;a whole a very creditable, exhibition;: I wasy however, very - much; puzzled to arrive at a, just comparison of, their various becauso no two .designs ; ;out of the; lot were the same.sizc, .. This is. said. to . be: , owing to- the absence, of any, dimensions from the instructions issued by. the Council, and the ground ..being much larger than.; was actually, required . for, ..the building,. thus leaving l competitors .to .the freedom: of-thcir own will in-regard, to size.. How tho Council were to be able tOvjudge .

any better than mytelf, I aid not Iran, but when I saw afterwards that thev hiu» pointed a few men said to be aSt&& things of that aoit to examine the plana report on them, I felt satisfied. I& 1 * nd men have reported to the Council 3 S* 5 do. .we find! A lengthy report !BlS? ideas and suggestions, instead of with fl!l ; and comparisons. They start bv in? that at their first meeting they ' to treat the designs under six heading .> that each might be tested aUke aud'nJ? readily compared with each- other Km? general committee." A good idea kltwT , it might have .beet more Correctly einrl, [ If these headings had been .siich. as I. that the committee had been' thorooehlv, quamted with: the various subiccta on »Kn." they were to report, I would have had not {"' h to say ; buctheyareanythmg b Q t thai--1: "Suitability of external i- o '. public building."—This is entirely | m °L® -of taste; about which' there are many diff : ent opinions. No. 2 : "Its the site.- This depends so much on ty? sizes of the buildings,'of which nothing? s lid in the report, that only a very mdefiniS opinion can be expressed regarding it." ,jf?' « : ".General arrangement and. plan;" No. 4 : " Suitability of internal parts T e design to the *' requirements." ,-4r ; " a i : ways:..thought that " general arrangements* and suitability of internal parts" meant about one and the satnu thing, and might have been .treated together. -No. .5 : " General Lighting " treated in an unfair nianet . faults, being found in regard to special ;panl of different designs. No 6 : " I'robabia Cost."—Thia in provided for in the " CoadU ■vtioaS. :for^Architects," and the committee should have left it alone, and not displayed . their ignorance in regard to it.. If they had made No. 6 " Table showing the floor space etc., of the different designs," as: snggeated by "Citizen's " letter, the Council wbild hare been able to compare one design With another in a practical way. Hoping thii will yet be provided for them, before they deoido on the prize takers.—l athi. &c.j ». , Ay OTHER CITISEX,