COLOURFUL EAST

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 444, 28 August 1928, Page 13

COLOURFUL EAST

FOURTH EDITION

AUCKLAND ARCHITECT’S TRIP

A WONDERFUL TOUR Alter a tour of eight months through the East, Mr. J. T. D. Lloyd, an Auckland architect, lias returned with a. firm conviction that he has learned something from Eastern architecture. He hopes to be able to incorporate some of impressions of the East into the work he does in future. This will apply principally to d< S . ation and colouring.

Mr. Lloyd returned by the Maheno this morning, delighted with what he has seen. The tour has been a splendid one, and he says that it can be done comparatively cheaply. After leaving Australia the first port of call was Ceylon, then"right through India to the Khyber Pass (visiting all places of interest en route), Burma, Hong-Kong, Shanghai, Japan, Manilla, Singapore, up the eastern coast of Malay to Bangkok, down through Java, the famous island of Bali, and back to Australia. “The wonderful Taj Malial temple was the most lovely thing we saw,” said Mr. Lloyd, “but there are beautiful temples and buildings everywhere in the East. That curious mixture of ancient and modern architecture one meets everywhere gives the Eastern cities a wonderful charm.” Mr. Lloyd was particularly im-. pressed with Bombay, which he says is a great city architecturally. The temple at Bangkok left a deep impression. It has some very lovely colouring, said Mr. Lloyd. The tiles of the roof are partly coloured by firing them and partly by painting. In Japan there is an immense amount of reconstruction going on, particularly at Tokyo and Yokohama. The new buildings are being constructed of steel and concrete to resist future earthquakes. While in Japym Mr. Lloyd experienced a fairly severe shake.