WITH TOWER GONE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18367, 9 April 1934, Page 9

WITH TOWER GONE

A DIFFERENT TOWN HALL In this issue appears an architect’s , Letch, prepared by Messrs. W. M. Page, •i. W. Learn, and V. i\ Haughton, advisory architects to the Wellington City * Council, to illustrate what will be the. ;ppcaranc3 of the.l own iiall when the proposals for the demolition of the tower, [ Oiticos, parapets, pediments, and onia- .1 ncutal lop' hamper are carried out. it ■vill be almost a new town hail in e.\ _ ■aior design. Wellington’s Town Hal!, though .a ~ ;ood "sample of its particular type-of design--had it been erected in stone — lias not of recent years been the subject f very enthusiastic appreciation, for \lc:u as to architectural design swing to aid fro. and tile swing latterly has ,de- . . initcly been away from ornateness and j Cm simple and even the severe, mass uing relied upon to give effect rather •.ban mass being smothered in - t uiamentatioh, or 'indifferent,or "p last bad. The removal of the tower, K * he. substitution of a much smaller and I baiuer main entrance portico, the cutting •way of the balustrade;.: triangular !. • ■diluents (there are at present two on “ Tie Cuba street frontage and one on the - Wakefield street frontage), refacing work, and the carrying of a simple band ound the whole length of skyline, cer- - tainlv brings about that simplification in design more favored by designers and also by the man in the street, either because he appreciates the virtues of ■; simplicity of mass, or because he Bows to the greater knowledge and higher ... artistic talent of the architect.