USE OF STEEL.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 19

USE OF STEEL.

LONDON'S NEW .BUILDING&

UflLtTAltlAN TREND

; Mr Giibttt It. Bevriridge, A.E.1.8.A., a Brisbane architect, has returned there via America, from England and Europe, Whero hd htis studied architecture for the last five and a half years. When interviewed by a newspaper representative} Ml- BevefidgO stated that ' part of his studies were carried out at i the Architectural Association School in ■ London, where he tvon tHe Archibald' Dawnay Scholarship for Construction in I 1927-28, ajid gained the Architectural i Association diploma with honours. He I also worked for , various architects in ! Londtin and tile feoiiities during V&eft-i tion periods, and Wfes chief assistant | fof LoiigdSn fehd VeSabiefy Chartered! AtchitedtSj of Leek, ,Whieh'is the cOii' trfe df tiig silK inflti&ttyi jheatib&gfi thfet in Londoft the - use of steel and doiiei-ete censtruttfion had 4>eeoin9 gen-, tii'ttlj and/ mdhy fine bilildingS W«mj be> ing built, particularly bank -and .ofß.ee buildings, department stores, and large Service fiats. Ctlife London Gbuilty Couii<Sil were also ejecting idrg6 biofiks of flats to house, the people who fire living in areas that have been condemned as Unfit fof slums. Among the largd biiildiflgs iti 6odrs6 bf | erection a*e Lloyd's tfisurahM- Biiild-, ing, Midland BkhK o£ Eilglkhd, Gaifldge's Dtftiufifflent fitOrd, Gto&Venbr, H&hsd flati' kid' dptotiihcitttj etc. "

i'wo-Storey tdHagee. "Ia he pi-bceeddd^' semi-detached two-storey cottages becoming incfrewMgty popular. Thefe in Very fdW type houses being erectodj The tottages dre mostlm constructed bf brick and concrete, aid}, owing tb- the finan<!ial depressiW which exiats thbreflitfclO monOy is spent: on exterioi? deeorationi utility.ia the - .chief confeiderationt Most -Ihp in England'£fe being fitted intent»lly with such eonyemengfes, :;ia-t;b]iait?ia' electric;-, siof es, : labotlt-aavißßj devices, ~lh AnatndiA ijt se.em* that' Wide, porfihes Und mobt favour, ffipooh ' siLs , ■ihaij u yolflMo, . > .dwelling in Australia,approximates th^t tho American, and is very 1 for -the .ijhat- >t e . Their would be inuch A more sSuuift ; foncos are being largely aholishctdr ' in Hid gatdUn shßnrH Ihkia' feeing merely' *.dwarf wall - the 'housed fi'oin tifi" fi tinont of Mr sa^d fligh/butwrts'gwS^lK #SS 'tftKeit td4uoW for'the lilfttlihulu bf afld dir. •- - " i h Aif 4 . ' Cities. becoming more "general in England and the Continent, "btit Am§¥}6ft leads the tray in.thig.rCaliforoia has some , ex--6ellsnt 1 Tot Eibrflei .-irti {ilaped in a setting of trees and flowers. All toads and io6tp<tiߧ are lined \vjth balms, and "miny ( are borderOdji |la>iy places ,havo regma r tions, the- coSt size of'iii#, houses, rd&a, - tay goes U help ill'tUfe fa'tbWiii"' , Mr, refflirkM tliat What strjiftK " him fu6st "OM hii rfetiint "W thO ioisy tfam& tram system," he Midlife Wdifttsnioded, ind should be, replaced by up;to-date inotor-buses, which pan puu intQ the " kerb, to. qittbas& and dwicharge. Sa9SSB- - thus holding np ' : > ' . V,, Ln\Sl®'

A-Nafiifer HrhS ia S. mfernhe? of tfcfe stfltf- dl 6i«S df m 1/knkif yr&S; getting a didmSndriiig; toras tol&iflg lot a client when' ttxe~ fearthqttakß occurred. Ho; had, jiuat tdkSh the jjeiMl from itfT plß.fcs ! WWSV tfie &itthdaalt& c&in6, and he ' rushed liitft the street, putting the, rag .to fe|s v ps& kfeti He ttaß Unable; torflild >th«i client, tod later he was brought - tu* Wangftiltti fcy kid brcitlier,/ that the safest, place ioff tlifc i>& a flngerj he wdre it." On Thursday Wternoon he lay on a law& at Wkhgftniii eddying' thei fitillshUlC, flltfl Went • to bleeps ; ilwoke the godd, teife fegrtftiiea ban best bo taiag' inedj *S tie-diamond witf VForfh boms £200.' teSH IftLlie Wflhidj fati com find ho irate b£ it, Lattilr'the Gth6* af th§ ; hQ)ißjehjbidi v*trh9 been into rfcttiWledj Jfed , chilli tolUulglfle $ cittoi 'We. pife6loliS tihg v fglr otit. , Tfhfct, it is hot, lost dfaring the trip into the i*Uy u a puzzle to the bank vrosker; Imit dtfiibt m many A nidfrkabte litlJipdiuiigS-"iiince' quake £hat he probably regards, it" tts just & little bit tftpte raiSi, fof; kirau "I A number of pigs wete* shipped on the I M|d after th ° 'eft tb£