Auckland’s New Hotel

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 261, 25 January 1928, Page 7

Auckland’s New Hotel

SPANISH RENAISSANCE STYLE TO COST £185,000 TVhat will be the most palatial and distinctive hotel in New Zealand will shortly be erected with frontages on Avenue, Beach Road and a new road yet to be formed. It will be known as The Plaza Hotel, and will be entirely finished in Spanish Renaissance style, vieing in magnificence with the great Pacific hotels. The plans

have been completed by Mr. A. Sinclair O’Connor, and the photograph /shows the Anzac Avenue elevation with a sketch of the location of the new structure. The estimated cost of the building will be in the region of £185,000. There will be a frontage of 84ft. to the Avenue, 80ft. to the new 90ft. roadway to be made from Anzac Avenue to Beach Road, and 42ft. to Beach Road with a total depth of 164 ft. The building will be an eight-storeyed one. It will be a concrete structure, finished in pure 'Spanish style. The ground floor from Anzac Avenue will accommodate the offices and entrance hall, the main door being on the right corner of the building. The private bar will be reached through the door in the centre of the block, and a modern garage for visitors will be located on the left of the building. This garage will hold 30 motor-cars. The first floor, which will be the fifth floor of the Beach Road elevation, will be devoted to the dining-room, and the second will be a handsome lounge. From this lounge entry will be gained to the top floor of the Beach Road elevation. where a roof garden will be established.

There will be billiard-rooms, cardrooms and bedrooms. Two-thirds of the latter will be single rooms and onethird. double. Every room will have a bathroom and conveniences as well as a telephone. The uninterrupted views of the harbour and bays will be unrivalled. The cafeteria to be erected on the top floor of the Anzac Road elevation will be covered with Spanish tiles, and a palm court will be established here. Four electric lifts will be installed, two being for passengers. There is to be nothing left undone to make this hotel the finest thing of its kind ever built in New Zealand, and tenders will shortly be called for the work, which, it is hoped, will be completed by the time the new railway station is finished, and the close proximity of the hotel to the new station will be an added factor to the wiseness of the choice of the locality.