FEW CHANGES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 9

FEW CHANGES

IN LONDON’S SKYLINE “Building is very slack in England at present, and architects are having a very lean time,” said Mr E. Lutyens. a London architect, nephew of the ia'te Sir Edward Lutyens, on his arrival at Wellington by the Ruahine from London. Mr Lutyens is accompanied by his wife, who is also an architect, and their two sons. “Although in some cases old buildings are being replaced by new, London does not change its skyline much,” continued Mr Lutyens. “The principal changes arc along the Embankment, where several big now buddings have recently been erected.” The height limit which ruled in "the rest of i the city, he said, might be exceeded on | the Embankment, and one of the tallest buildings in the city was the block oJ ■offices recently erected for an oil company on the site of the old Hotel Cecil, a feature of the building being a tall clock tower. Mr Lutyens ' doubted whether sufficient; tenants would be offering to fill the building, as there was an excess of office space available in London.

Right throughout the country houses were selling very cheaply, and country residences which cost thousands of pounds to build were being practically given away.