BRITISH HOMES.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1928, Page 8

BRITISH HOMES.

“ Skyscrapers will never appeal to die British temperament, nor -will the pist rectangles and straight lines of modern Continental concrete buildings dve-the Englishman the sense of bn 1 nice so essential to his nature,” writes Mr Alfred C. Bossom, F.R.1.8.A., in “Modern Building Construction.” ‘The British are an iiiclividaalfstic race, and the British Empire has been built by that spirit of individuality in *ur men and women, and nothing fosters this spirit so much as the opportunity for expressing personal likes and dislikes in the homes of the people, the home should be the architectura 1 portrait of its inhabitants. We are still building houses that met the needs of a past generation, whereas we arc living in an age of almost complete change. We cannot afford the time and labour necessary for the spacious premises of the past, ami whether we ’ike it or not, as we are living to-day and not yesterday, all our changed ways ought to be accommodated in our present-day homes. Not one of us would voluntarily buy a motor-car made in 1900, hut we are constructing houses of the vintage of 1840 and trying to fit them to our 1928 mode of ife. We should surely use the benefit of modern inventions and discoveries and look at our houses with a telescopic vision and find out whether we ire really building along the he sit lines we know.”