The first stage of Tennyson Power Station, Brisb, was divested of its scaffolding, emerging as this businesslike & big. (C-S Feb '55 for complete project) if At the Melb Univ School of Arch'ture there was held a photographic exhib'n of the post-war German building boom.
(j It was reported that the only street in Australia devastated by war—Cavenagh-st Darwin—is now almost rebuilt./Some tradesmen were stood down, in Darwin, to await delayed materials from other States; some timber & cement is shipped from Formosa & Malaya./
In Darwin's Fanny Bay area 2 contractors are com- pleting houses one per week. The old airstrip there is now Ross Smith avenue.
Q An American arch't, Mr Arnold Ehlers, of Salt Lake City, has designed a Mormon church for Toowoomba, Q'land. Its 8000 sq ft of space will include, according to an Aust'n journal, "eating accommodation for 200 persons in the chapel"
This really is the Methodist Church at Wilston, Brisb.
(Ford, Hutton & Newell, arch'ts). The illustration pub- lished last month as such was the Chapel of Si. Thomas More College, Crawley, WA.
(Henderson & Thompson, arch'ts).
jj The Canberra area of the RATA awarded its first Medallion for meritorious arch'ture. Winners were Messrs Grounds, Romberg & Boyd, Melb, for the 25- square Red Hill house of Prof F Fenner (Karl Schreiner, Canberra, bldr). In Perth the RIBA 5- yearly bronze award for a meritorious WA bldg was given to the nurses' quarters of the King Edward hosp (A E Clare, PWD chief arch't). There might soon be an award to the best Aust'n award of the year . to attract the attention of the public to the fact that awards are to attract the attention of the public.
At St. Catherine's School, Toorak, Vic, this assembly hall was completed. (Mockridge, Mitchell & Stahle, arch'ts; Pyke-Symmie Pty Ltd, bldrs)
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
CROSS-SECTION
Issue No 47 September I, 1956.
The Royal Com'n on the Vict'n Housing Com'n issued its findings, in 60,000 words. It approved of the arch'ts- panel system (C-S April '56) subject to rotating retire- ment of its members. It recommended a separate, new authority be created for slum clearance.
If The first Adelaide professor in arch'ture will be Rolf Arthur Jenson, 43. He is Borough arch't for Padding- ton, London, formerly an Admiralty arch't in Singapore.
He is a graduate of the Liverpool arch'ture school.
g Govt housing authorities in Melb, Adelaide & Perth all announced plans for constructing specially planned houses for the elderly.
jj Constr'n began on both the Perth & the Melb office blocks for the Com'wlth Govt. William-st Perth &
Spring-st Melb will change in character greatly as these tall bldgs rise there.
This Presbyterian church at Croydon Park, NSW, seats 140, cost £4250. (McConnel, Smith & Johnson, arch'ts;
Evans Bros, bldrs)
(j A £65,000 basement hall (to seat 320) library &
youth centre were opened, under the central Sydney synagogue. They form a war memorial. Extensive altera- tions on other floors of the bldg were also completed.
(O E Phillips, arch't; Morrison & Little, struct eng'eers;
Kell & Rigby Ltd, bldrs).
This transformation was completed in Franklyn-st Adelaide. It is now the premises of Modern Plate Engraving Ltd, and named Graphic House. (Tulloch, Vogt & Raffin, arch'ts).
(j In anticipation of a permanent ballet company being formed in Brisb, arch't Mr Martin Conrad was engaged to design a new theatre in Wharf-st, to hold 800./The Majestic Theatre Brisb is closed for remodelling, costing
£75,000./The Tivoli, Melb, closed for a similar reason.
(j Work is half completed on a new 8,500m gal dam at Mt Iso Mines, Q'land. Utah Aust Ltd is building it
& its surrounding accommodation.
¶ One of the entrants for the Sydney Opera House competition is Mr George Molnar (arch't-teacher- cartoonist, Sydney; C-S July '56) & Messrs Stephenson
& Turner, in association.
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Some 300 photographs, 20 models & 60 sculptures were assembled & catalogued in Melb for the Olympics Fine Arts Festival display, to be in Wilson Hall.Beaurepaire Sports Centre, University (C-S Aug '56) Eggleston, MacDonald & Secomb, arch'ts.
G A Winwood, bldrs.
Brighton Grammar sports pavilion Mockridge, Mitchell & Stahle, arch'ts.
R McNaughton & Sons, bldrs.
Melbourne continues to enjoy a very active building period, & samples of progress are illustrated on these pages. Unfortunately, all too many of these bldgs are burdened with unskilled or unthinking design. Many are branded with cliches, and the cliches are not even contemporary ones . port-hole windows, protruding stucco framing of windows and walls, bands of windows demanding complicated support for brickwork above, unnecessary parapets. Inferior habits of the 30's and 40's revived through laziness & ignorance, or (as in the case of hospitals which struggle through decades of financial battles) designs prepared then, executed now.
Here and there progressive thought emerges, appearing the more brilliant for the background.
Other States are not so busy. WA spoke of the pinch months ago & unemployment now exists in a few trades, so that tendering for the numerous city works is keen.
The position is similar in SA and Tas. In Sydney the city work under way is not being joined by more, while in the suburbs the severest loan limitations in 25 years are severely restricting domestic work.
Vic's premier Mr Bolte returned from his "sell Victoria"
tour of British & US financiers, optimistic and eager.
In the city:
Alliance Assurance, Collins-st (Sketch in C-S Feb '55) Leith & Bartlett, arch'ts.
Keith Hooker, bldrs.
Malleson Holdings Ltd, King-st Godfrey, Spowers, arch'ts.
Henry Eilenberg, bldrs.
Ajax Insurance Co, H D Berry arch't.
Hansen &
Berry,
bldrs.
North Melbourne:
Lanes Motors, Queensberry-st Harry Norris, arch't tiorisons Ltd, bldrs.
Stockland Press, Peel-st Leith & Bartlett, arch'ts.
Keith riooker, bldr.
Professional Offices, Wreckyn-st, Harry Ernest, arch't.
H T McKern & Sons, bldrs.
Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville Stephenson & Turner, arch'ts.
J R & E Seccull Ltd, bldrs.
Box Hill District Hospital Leighton Irwin & Co, arch'ts.
F T Jeffrey, bldrs for hosp
McDougall & Ireland, bldrs for nurses' home
John Newman Morris Canvalescent Home, Kew Leighton Irwin & Co, arch'ts.
A Yates & partners, bldrs.
Neon Electric, Whiteman-st Robert Demaine & assoc'ts, arch'ts.
Simmie & Co, bldrs.
South Melbourne:
Hardware Co, Queensbridge-st Godfrey, Spowers, arch'ts.
Hansen & Yuncken, bldrs.
East Melbourne:
St Vincent's Hospital, Victoria-parade, (C-S Aug '55)
Stephenson & Turner, arch'ts.
T R & L Cockram, bldrs.
Brooklands Accessories Ltd, 15 Wreckyn-st Alsop & Duncan, arch'ts.
John Holland, bldrs.
Gloria Knitting Mills, Capel-st.
Marsh, Bennie & Barry, arch'ts.
F T Jeffrey Ltd, bldrs.
George Feathers & Co, Latrobe-st north C Stewart Russell, arch't
Swanson Bros Ltd, bldrs.
O NE of the most spectacular buildings in the fast growing modern city of Dandenong, Victoria, is McEwans.
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