Hotel Windsor, Wellington.

Progress, 1 October 1908, Page 425

Hotel Windsor, Wellington.

This handsome addition to Wellington's improving architecture, erected at a cost of £25,000, is now open to the public. The first floor is approached by a grand double staircase and lift, and is principally taken up with dining, luncheon, grill and serverx rooms, drawing, reading and writing rooms are provided on each floor, also bathrooms, lavatories, etc. There are eighty large. \\ elllighted and ventilated bedrooms, perhaps th largest rooms in the colony. The kitchen, laundry, stores and drying yard are situated on the top store\ . and are approached by a separate staif

and goods lift. The corridors are wide and amply lighted, while special attention has been given to the exits? in case of fire, the galleries surrounding the building being designed both for use as fire exits, and as embellishments to an otherwise plain facade. The building is lighted by gas and electricity; the power for the latter is generated on the premises. The building is faced with red brick, and all the interior partitions usually wood are constructed in concrete the Hudson Patent Walling Co. The architect for the building was J. C. Maddison, and the work was carried out

under T I You relic Mr Maddison's local representative. Clerk of works. Campbell Colquhoun ; contractors. Trevor & Sons . plastering. Win. Carroll : plumbing, Jenkins & Mack; electric- lighting and fire .llarms. Turnlmll & Jones; lifts. Standard Elevator Co. : .ioinery. Stewart and Co. , furnishings, D.1.C. ; painting. Jackson & Co ; lead lights. Smith & Smith ; patent Arkihte paving. J. C. Harrison.

Sati&factoiy piogiess has been made in thf election of a block of shops, bakehouse, stables, etc., in Taranaki street, Wellington. Contract puce, about £4,500. Aichitect. James Bennie : tontractoif., Howie & Mattbewson.

Two iesidenee-> aie being completed at Xoitlilands for Mi. Finlay MacLeod. Architect, Jame-> Bennie; contiactoi, W. Hutchings. The contiaet foi additions to th 1 Thonnlon Bowl ing Pavilion has been let Architect, James f'enme, contractor W. Davies F de J Clere, F.R.I BA , the diocesan aielutoct, has lately designed chinches at Paekakanki, Reikioiangi, Konini, and the Pansh Hall at Taihape; and he has just let the contract for a biick chinch at Wadestown to Taft and Obee. The same architect has "on the boards" designs ±01 new parish c lunches at Palmerston North (in brick), Karori, Miramar, and Eastbourne. The new brick chancel and oigan chamber for the Paiish Chmch at Blenheim were also from his designs.

The Technical School at Petone, a conspicuous building in red biiek, -with a tiled roof, standing on a lidge near the Becreation Ground, was "passed" by Mi. Clere last week, and he hopes shortly to let the contract for the new Technical School at Palmerston North, as the plans and specifications air now complete. This building also be in red biick, and is considerably larger than that at Petone. The site chosen for it is an excellent one at the cornei of Duke and King stioets Hoggaid & Piouse, architects, have the contiact for the erection of a steel frame warehouse in (ihuznee Street foi Messrs. Cadbury Bros., Lumped, of Bonrnville, England. The plans (which were approved of in England) provide for an up-to-date structure of four storeys, with a fiontage of 34 feet by a depth of 86 feet. The con^tiuction is on the latest American type of skeleton steel frame; that is, the steel frame carries the entire weight of the walls and reinforced concrete floois. the brickwork being simply of sufficient thickness, to make the walls weatherproof. It will lie leadily seen that this form of eonstiuction is of £ieat ad\autag;e in Wellington, where the saving of wall space is a consideration, owing to the high pi ice of land. The successful tendei was that of Sanders Bros., toi at about £5.000. The building is to be completed in fi\e months The tendei s ha\e been accepted for the erection of Taurangi Home, Ashburton, and the Jubilee Rome. Woolston. Architects, Collins & Harman; < onti actors, Xightingale Bros. The new warehouse for Mailing & Co., Ltd., on Oxfoid terrace, Christ cam eh, is nearing completion, and will wonderfully improve the looks of that part of the town. Architects, Collins & Harman. A building is in course of erection for Messis. Wilding Ackland, at the corner of Hereford -tieet and Oxford terrace, Christchurch, and will be used as offices. Architects, Collins and Harman; contractors, W. Grieg & Sons. The contract foi alterations, additions and painting at Mr. Lee's residence. Western Hutt, has I ecu secured by George Sykes, contractor, Lower Hutt. Architect. C. Tilleard Natuseh.