Special (Open) Architectural Competition

Progress, Volume XIII, Issue 12, 1 August 1918, Page 290

Special (Open) Architectural Competition

A prize of £3 35., and a 2nd prize of £2 2s. (adjudicator’s prize) is offered by an Education Board for a Soldiers’ Memorial to take the form of a Water Tower in Concrete in a public school grounds, which is to cost about £SO (estimated). The capacity of ferro-eoncrete tank to be 2,000 gallons, height 15 feet to water level, and depth of tank about 5 feet. Top of tank to be concreted' over and suitable manhole provided. Tank to be fed from bottom with at least two 1 inch pipes and 11 inch pipe overflow. Twenty-four square feet of marble slabs to be provided for, no strip to be of a less width than 18 inches and bottom of slabs to be not less than 6 feet from base. Slabs to be arranged on the most con-

spicuous places looking from road (sec plan herewith), and are not to he included in the cost. They are to form panels for names, etc. The tower can stand on pillars or solid concrete, as suitable for design, and consideration will be given if any item can be introduced under the tank, such as a seat for the use of school children, or anything that may prove of interest in connection with public school work. The first three designs will be the property of the Education Board, and will be adjudicated on by a Wellington architect, who very generously offers his fee as a second prize. Designs must be sent in under a nom do plume (with covering letter giving competitor’s name and address), marked clearly “Water Tower Competition,” C/o “Progress,” 8 Parish Street, Wellington. Competition is open to anybody, and drawings must reach above address by September 18th.