N.Z. ARCHITECT

Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 October 1933, Page 6

N.Z. ARCHITECT

WINS DESIGN COMPETITION. LONDON, Thursday. A young New Zealand architect, Mr Uhren, who worked his passage to England as a stoker in a cargo ship, in 1931, won a competition for the design of the new Town Hall at Hornsey, costing £200,000. There were 280 competitors. Mr Uhren previously won a competition for the Exhibition Hall at Manchester. FORMER PETONE RESIDENT. WELLINGTON, Thursday. Mr Uhren, the young New Zealand architect, who won the English competition, lived at Petone, and before leaving New Zealand was on the staff of Messrs Natusch and Sons, Wellington, architects. While with Messrs Natusch and Sons, Mr Uhren sent examples of his work to the School of Architects at Auckland, and they held it up as a model to students fit the school. He assisted his firm in 1929 to win the competition for the best design for the lay-out of the foreshore at Petone, qualified for a N.Z.I.A. certificate, and proceeded to England in 1931 and was awaiting election as an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects when he won the competition for the best design for the Exhibition Hall at Manchester, organised by the promoters of the Manchester Building Trades Exhibition. The New Zealander was successful against 93 competitors in this contest. —(P-A.)