New Zealand Insurance.

Progress, Volume IV, Issue 2, 1 December 1908, Page 63

New Zealand Insurance.

New buildings for the New Zealand Insurance Company at Brisbane, Queensland. Excavations are at piesent in progress in Queen Street for the New Zealand Insurance Company's new building,. The site chosen for this building is that adjoining the Union Bank of Australia, and has a frontage to Queen Street of 60 feet, with a depth of 148£ feet. By making a short survey of the building (illustration of same in this issue), anyone can imagine it will be a magnificent building when completed. The entrance to the building will be through a massive masonry doorway, and the corridor of the spacious width of 13 feet. The walls will be tiled, with a waggon vault ceiling, which will lead to the New Zealand Insurance Company's public offices. This apartment will be richly finished in silky oak, with ornamental plaster work. The ceiling will be suppoited by twelve lonic columns, with copppr bases and capitals. This alone will help to beautify this chamber. The design of the building is of a Renaissance type, which has been adopted suitable to the materials (brick and stone) selected. The cornice and lettering on the front will be carried out m copper. The roof, which is veiy uncommon, will be tiled with local tiles, and broken by shaped and sculptured gables and dormers on the four sides. Messrs. Hall and Dods are lesponsible for the design, which is commercially and artistically satisfying. This building will be the largest of the company's buildings in the Commonwealth, which goes to prove that Queensland is securing her share of the sky-piercer type of building. It is a good omen for the future prosperity of the State at hand, and the development of its enormous resources.

Me^sis. Low in and Bull completed eaily last month the brick additions to the Bank of Kew Zealand and buildings at Lower Hutt. W. Turnbull, architect. Mr. Livesay has also received instructions ot prepare designs for an eight-roomed house at Karori, and a cottage at Seatoun.

Alessis Claikson and Ballantyne, of Christchuich, report letting contiacts for: — Brick and stone chuich, Armagh street; contractor, R. J. Pugh.— Sunday School, St. Albans East, contractor, A. A. Swanson, junior. — Two-storey dwelling house for Mr. Nutt; contractor, J. W. Beauland. — Bungalow, at Riccarton, for Mr. S. P. Stevens, contractors, Harris and W atson. — Cottage, Antigua street ; contractor, J. Hammett. — Cottage, Riccarton, for Mr. Olon; contractor, J. W. Beauland. These architects have also m hand plans for brick house at Riccarton for Mr. W. Ballantyne. Mr. E. Coleridge, architect, has accepted the tender of Messrs I. Clark and Son for the erection of a store in Tory street, Wellington, for Messrs. Sliaeklock and Co., the well-known range niakeis of Dunedin. The building, which will be built with walls strong enough to carry two extra floors at future date, will have a frontage of 75 feet, and a depth of 61 feet. Provision has been made foi two large cart entrances and a jib crane, to facilitate the handling of goods, which will necessarily be veiy heavy. The elevation will be finished with pressed bricks relieved with cement facings, cornices, entablature, etc. The work is expected to be finished in about five months' time.