LARGE ADDITIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23202, 28 May 1937, Page 10

LARGE ADDITIONS

LONDON UNIVERSITY The £3,000,000 building scheme for providing London University with headquarters on a scale suitable for its national and Imperial importance is already well advanced, says the Daily Telegraph. ~ A portion of the completed Senate House, which includes the administrative block, is now in use, members of the secretarial and office staffs, being installed in their new quarters. Of the departments in this finished section the Senate Room is the most elaborate, and a great advance, in many ways on the room used by the Senate at South Kensington. The room impresses by its size. Of rectangular shape, it is lofty, well lighted, and artistic. Approached by a ceremonial staircase, in the passage leading to the great square door, stands the fine stained glass window presented by the Glaziers Company of the City. The ceiling, 30 feet above the floor, is of carved and panelled cypress wood, and the walls, two of 50ft in length and two of 30ft, are panelled in English walnut up to the window sills, nine feet above the ground, and then continued in tapestry. The seats, in blue leather, are Sn pairs, and are stepped from front to back. Strip lights are used on the desks, which, again, are" of blue leather, while the room itself is illuminated by reflected lighting from four tall pillars which throw their light on the ceiling.