LARGE ADDITIONS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 249, 2 August 1937, Page 3

LARGE ADDITIONS.

LONDON UNIVERSITY. The £3,000,000 building scheme for providing London University with headquarters on a scale suitable for its national and Imperial importance is already well advanced, says the “Daily Telegraph.” A portion of the completed Senate House, which includes the administrative block, is now in use, members of the secretarial and office staffs being installed in their new quarters. Of the repayments in. this finished section the Senate itoom is the most elaborate, and a great advance in many ways on the room used by the Senate at South Kensington. The room impresses by its size. Of rectangular shape, it is lofty, well lighted, and artistic. Approached by a. ceremonial staircase, in the passage leading to the great square door, stands the fine stained glass window fjresentedi by the Glaziers Company of the City. The ceiling, 30 feet above the floor, is of carved and panelled cypress wood, and the walls, two of 50ft in length and two of 30ft, are panelled in English walnut up to the window sills, nine feet above the ground, and then continued in tapestry. The seats, in blue leather, are m pairs, and, are stepped from front to back. Strip lights are used on the desks, which, again, are of blue leather, while the room itself 1 is illuminated by reflected lighting from four tall pillars which throw their light on the ceiling.