Page 439 Advertisement 7

Progress, Volume XI, Issue 2, 1 October 1915, Page 439

Our 38th Competition We offer a prize of £1)1/0 (one guinea) for the design adjudged to be the best for The Front of a Block of Offices There are to be two shops on the ground floor, with an adequate entrance to the vestibule of the offices over, of which there are to he two floors, making a three-storey building in all. The width available is 50 feet, and there are three-storey buildings on each side A hanging verandah is to run along the entiie front. The “style” of architecture is to be Classic, as it is intended that this competition is to be an exercise in the use of “ Orders ” and other Classic details. The materials to be all stone. There is no stipulation as to the cost, but it is assumed that the building is to be erected in the best part of a city, by some well-to-do Company or Firm. Beside the front elevation, a plan of the front wall at each floor to be given, also a section from top to bottom. As far as possible any vertical lines to be brought right down to the ground, and not to be stopped anyhow by the shop girder. The design of the verandah to be specially considered. The scale to be to a foot, with detail of some portion. ' Drawings to be inked in; the shadows correctly projected ; and coloured. Any notes are to be printed on the drawings ; no seperate specification needed. Mr. Basil Hooper, A.R.1.8.A., of Dunedin, has kindly set this subject.