W CLASSIC BEAUTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 14

W CLASSIC BEAUTY

The roof of Yorkshire House has eight-storey building should be compl Standing on the corner of Short ture in its classic lines will be one of in the city and one of the most beau the lower two storeys and the upper cornice and frieze. The main entrance will be from S frontage of 45ft. sin. and there will b Street along which the building exte Insurance Company will occupy mo be 120 offices, each approximately IS The main corridors will be finish in the basement will be a coffee lounge will be provided on the roof. The in ing system will allow a radiator to The architects are Bloomfield and Construction Company, whose tender

been put into position and the new ete about December 30. land and O’Connell Streets, the structhe most striking’ pieces or architecture tiful. Pilasters will extend through storeys terminate in an enriched hortland Street, to which there is a e a secondary entrance from O’Connell nds for 105 ft. 2 Jin. The Yorkshire st of the ground floor and there will ft. by 12ft., served by two lifts, ed in marble and Travertine tiles and in Pompeiian style. Living quarters stallation of a central hot-water lieatbe placed in office. Hunt and the builders the Fletcher was £52,260.

Made in red lacquer, a newer nest of tables of four triangular tables fitting under -the larger one.