Our 65th Competition.

Progress, Volume XIII, Issue 12, 1 August 1918, Page 267

Our 65th Competition.

We offer a prize of £1 Is. Od. (together with an additional prize of £.l Is. Od. kindly donated by the judge), and a second prize of 10s. Cd. for the design adjudged to be the best for a City Office Block. It is proposed to erect a block of shops and offices on a section 120 ft. deep by 30 ft. frontage (centre to centre of party walls) with a frontage to a main street and back street. * The site is bound by two party walls, two storeys high, 14. ft. and 12 ft. respectively, with 18 ft, and 14 ft. brickwork. The adjoining buildings being old it must be assumed that the foundations will not carry the additional loadings; and further, as it is not possible to treat with the adjoining owners, the party-walls cannot be removed, but permission is given to cut into the party walls to the centre line at intervals. The site is on reclaimed land 20 ft. deep to the rock and high water 5 ft. from the street line, the nature of the borings indicates that digging to foundation bases may be resorted to. Requirements. facing each street with separate lav accommodation, 4 upper floors in series of offices with lav accommodation on each floor. Direct natural lighting and ventilation must be given to each office. The site being limited in width, the owner requires full use made between the party walls. Drawings required. Details of construction of foundations to 4 inch scale. Details of storing, etc., as requisite to 4 inch scale. Plans of ground and first floor together with longitudinal and cross sections to 4 inch scale. Mr. B. C. Chilwell, A.E.1.8.A. of Auckland, has kindly set this subject and will adjudicate.

Designs must be sent in finished as above, under a nom-de-plume addressed to “Progress,” 8 Parish Street, Wellington, and marked clearly “Sixty-fifth Competition” on outside with a covering letter giving competitor’s name, and address of employer. Designs to be sent in by Sept. 21st.