NEW MUSIC CENTRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 106, 26 July 1927, Page 1

NEW MUSIC CENTRE

Seven-Storeyed Building

IMPOSING EDIFICE IN QUEEN ST.

A Notable Architectural Addition

A NOTABLE addition to Queen Street architecture will be a seven-storey building for Lewis R. Eady and Son., Ltd. This new building—the plan of which is published by THE SUN—will cost about £24,000. It will occupy the site of the Hippodrome Theatre and Brierley’s confectionery store.

\\7ORK is to be started by the contractor, Mr. C. A. Lee, on Monday, and the structure is to be complete by March 31.

The building is to have frontages of 33ft. to Queen Street and High Street, and a depth of 190 ft. The Queen Street facade will have a height of seven storeys, and it will be Georgian in character. It will be faced in Caen cement. At the High Street frontage the structure will be four storeys high. SHOPS AND SHOW-ROOMS The shop and show-rooms of Lewis R. Eady and Son, Ltd., will occupy the ground and mezzanine floors. At Queen Street display windows will extend back for 18ft., and entrance will be gained through a handsome vestibule with a barrel-vaulted roof. On one side of this a staircase and on the other two elevators will give access to the upper floors. Beyond the vestibule will be a spacious shop. Above it will be a mezzanine floor to which will lead a broad, open staircase in hardwood. The mezzanine floor will be in the form of. a gallery looking down on the shop proper, and on it will be situated the offices of the firm and the piano showroom. The gramophone showroom and audition rooms will be located on the ground floor, behind the shop proper. A concert chamber, 76ft long and 30ft wide, and capable of holding 250 with room for an additional 50 in the foyer, will occupy the centre section of the second an.l third floors. It will have a dancing floor and a gallery to seat a further 50 persons. CLUB ROOMS

The central portion of the floor above the chamber is to be used for clubrooms. Front and rear of this central portion o.* the building will be divided into offices and professional

chambers. Particular attention is being given to making the various parts of the building absolutely sound-proof. The interior finishings are to be on an artistic scale. The ceilings are to be well finished and a plentiful provision of cornices of richly-decorated fibrous plaster is planned. Interior joinery will be of Tasmanian blackwood.