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LONDON HALL DESIGN A YOUNG NEW ZEALANDER LONDON, Nov. 4. The young New Zealander architect, Mr. R. H. Uren, A.R.1.8.A. (Wellington), whose design for he £llO,OOO Hornsey Town Hall was selected from 280, has received from Mr. Percy Thomas, president of the Royal Institute of British Arichtects, a bronze medal and diploma for the best London building designed between 1933 and 1935. At 30 he is the youngest architect who has ever won this award. Yet it is only six years ago that he arrived in London, with very | little money, after having worked his way to England as a ship's greaser. The occasion upon which he was presented with the awards was the opening of the 1936-37 session of the Royal Institute of British Architects this week. Mr. Thomas, in his presidential address, said architects knew that the cure for many of the ills from which civilisation suffered lay in ordered replanning and the rebuilding of congested towns and cities.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 27 November 1936, Page 8
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