REMAKING OF ATHENS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13349, 6 April 1914, Page 8

REMAKING OF ATHENS.

IMPORTANT COMMISSION FOR AN ENGLISHMAN. Mr T. H. Mawson, Hon. A.R.1.8.A , and Special Lecturer m Landscape Design at the University of Liverpool, has been commissioned, on the personal recommendation of the King and Queen of the Hellenes, to prepare comprehensive plans for the extension, remodelling, and beautification of the city of Athens. , The capital of the Hellenic kingdom is growing iv population at a rapid rate, and the replanning will make allowance for any extension of the city's boundaries which is likely to be needed during the next half-century. In Mr Mawson's plans provision will be made for a great new railway station to supersede all the existing termini, and also for the new Law Courts and other official buildings, new hotels, new boulevards, including a broad avenue from the city to the Piraeus, and a complete park and playground system. New waterworks are also contemplated, while the. replanning will also have to take into' account a rehousing scheme, which will be rendered necessary by the clearing .away of the hovels which have accumulated m the course of time around the base of the Acropolis. In view of his task Mr Mawson, during his recent stay m Athens, went over tho whole city with the King and Queen, the Mayor and officials, while he also had the benefit of conferring with the archaelogists connected with the British and German schools' m Athens. '"'.-' , Mr Mawson has for some time been engaged upon the replanning and extension of the Royal Gardens m Athens, and the planning of the Royal burying ground at Tatoi, a few miles from the city. He is also preparing a similar scheme for Corfu.